Hi,
I think this is off-topic here, but I'm trying anyway.
I'm learning to play the Flemish bagpipes. I use noteedit to help me
study my pieces. No problem here.
In a while I have to play together with a clarinet and a sax. The piece
I want to play had no lines for clarinet and sax, so with the help of my
teacher I transposed some other instruments. Then I played the piece
with noteedit. On some places it sounds wrong, so I told my teacher
something was wrong. She says that the output of midi does not transpose
sounds like clarinet or sax do. I was surprised to hear that so I
investigated. I let noteedit play some notes and measured them with my
tuner, e.g. when noteedit plays a G with a clarinet-sound I measure a G
with my tuner, same with a sax-sound. Then I asked my daughter to play a
G on her clarinet, and, to my surprise, I got an F on my tuner. Other
notes "behave" the same. I had heard of this fenomenon but didn't
understand it then.
I tried the experiment with my tuner with rosegarden, with the same
results, so I don't think it's the score-editor, but midi. I even tried
different sound-fonts with the same results.
So my question is, why would a computer sound like a G when I ask to
"play a G with a clarinet" when in reality a clarinet will sound like an
F when the player sees a G on the score and presses the keys for it.
What I mean is, when I copy a score which includes clarinet and sax, and
then I play it via midi, it will not sound like when that piece is
played with real instruments. So what's the use of midi when it does not
play the reality ? Or do you have to be a musicologist just to copy a
score, let alone transpose one ? You would have to have two versions of
your score : one to play with midi and one to play with real instruments.
Any references to this problem will be highly appreciated. If you know a
better place to ask this I would be happy to hear about it. I did search
with google, but I didn't get answers, but I don't really know how to
ask this in google.
Regards,
Koenraad Lelong.
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