[sdiy] A question about quanizing

Tim Ressel madhun2001 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 28 01:31:02 CEST 2006


Hey,

I was looking at the Mikado sequencer and wondering
about how the quantizer operates.

Ok, ascii art time. Here is an octave, in semitones:

 C  C# D  D# E  F  F# G  G# A  A# B
-------------------------------------
| 0| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|
-------------------------------------

The numbers are input voltage in 1/12 of a volt, and
the letters are the note outputted for that voltage.

My question is: how does the quantization occur?

This is my guess for major scale quan:

 C  C  D  D  E  F  F  G  G  A  A  B
-------------------------------------
| 0| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|
-------------------------------------

And major chord quan would be:

 C  C  C  C  E  E  E  G  G  G  G  G
-------------------------------------
| 0| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|
-------------------------------------

In other words, for 0/12V to 3/12V, a 'C' is
outputted. For 4/12 to 6/12V an 'E' is put out. And
for 7/12 to 11/12V a 'G' is put out.

Am I on the right track here?

Thanks in advance.

--Tim Ressel



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