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Comment by mcnichol

I'll be blunt, a lot of what you explained went over my head.

I saw some charts that expressed 1hz in the A4 range a bit higher but essentially what you explained. The lower in the scale the more cents per hz but each "scale" has 1200 cents broken up evenly per semitone.

We could create a reference chart that shows the "increase" in the scale in hz which would be a logarithmic curve while the cents would be growing linearly based on an underlying logarithmic scale.

In my previous response I was being prickly with the previous responder because they came off with strong "well awkshually..." energy.

I get what they are saying but I don't think it's outlandish to speak in hz when the extra precision from cents is arguably beyond the average musically trained ear.

parent mcnichol 1 year ago

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