Topic: sfz hikey, lokey shifted by an octave in Podium

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  • February 23, 2011 at 23:42 #2529
    pbattersby
    Participant

    I’m looking at an sfz file that says the instrument sound should be playable between c3 and c6. What I find instead within Podium is that the instrument plays between c2 and c5. I’ve looked at a couple sfz files and the behaviour is consistent. Within Podium, the playable range is shifted down an octave. Any idea why? I haven’t transposed anything.

    February 24, 2011 at 08:13 #20354
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    As far as I understand, the MIDI specification only thinks of the keys as numbers, and there’s no standard that says which octave the keys center around.

    Here’s a thread on KVR about this: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4268131

    In some programs like Logic, you can choose which octave the piano roll is centered on (as in automatically transposing everything).

    If it’s a problem for you during scoring that everything is shifted by an octave, the only way I can think of is to enter notes at the right position, and set each track to transpose by an octave (in the track properties dialog).

    February 25, 2011 at 01:11 #20359
    pbattersby
    Participant

    What I gather from the link you posted is that this is mostly a cosmetic issue centered around the chosen definition of middle C. This would suggest then that the sfz file and Podium give a different note name to middle C such that when the sfz file specifies C4 as middle C, Podium might call that exact same pitch/frequency C3.

    February 26, 2011 at 16:29 #20361
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    Exactly – it’s just the labeling that’s different (you can’t even really say it’s wrong :?). Sorry if I didn’t explain it well enough.

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