- 1.01khz
- 1.1khz
100Hz to 200Hz = 1 octave.
1kHz to 2kHz = 1 octave.
10Hz is a much bigger “musical” difference from 100 to 110 than 1000 to 1010.
Do we want it to be a consistent absolute amount or a consistent fraction of an octave perhaps?
A “chromatic” control would be nice, each increment being equal to a note (standard Western tuning and concert pitch, of course!).
Internally it already works something like this. You notice it when mapping a controller to the Frequency of an EQ or event just draw a straight automation line from min to max.
The current Channel EQ uses different resolutions for different bands. The lower ones are 0.1 and the higher ones are 1.nothing.
Even now you can enter a Note’s pitch like “F#4” and it will set it to the proper frequency.
How can you tell? I was under the impression that all 4 bands are interchangeable.
I never knew. That’s awesome! Thanks!
That’s cheating!
It’s just that when we move from the bottom freq value (20Hz) to the top one, the step in Hz gets bigger every time, so it may create the illusion that the bands have different resolution. They don’t, in fact we can all try setting our 4 bands to 20Hz and start from there. We’ll notice identical inc/decs when for example we use a mouse wheel to alter the values.
@m.c My point exactly.
All 4 EQ bands are fully interchangeable.
I know. I just wanted to justify the resolution illusion
I’m surprised to not have noticed the word “logarithmic” in this thread yet. Because that’s generally how I’ve seen the relationship between frequency and human (pitch) perception described.
e.g. to match pitch to MIDI, this seems to be widely used (unless Wikipedia is quite wrong).
Source:
… one can adopt the widely used MIDI standard to map fundamental frequency, f, to a real number, p
That’s interesting.