Apologies in advance if this has been discussed already, haven’t had much luck in finding anything concrete on the topic.
While I don’t mind them in most cases, I have a bit of a hard time translating the MIDI value range into Hz on an EQ spectrum.
Haven’t been able to find a table that would attempt to do it - the way Elektron did it for Delay timing, for example:
Is it something someone already figured out and mapped it in some way? Or is it just generally advised that we should rely more on our ears and forget about it
Sincerely,
slipscape:
rely more on our ears
Exactly.
Now if you want to extract the information you’re looking for, I would suggest to set resonance to max and check the frequency for a few values, then fill the table yourself.
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Oh well, that’s what Claude told me, too, verbatim
There we go! Amazing, thank you @igors48
If you think it’s okay, I could maybe design this into a PDF we can all easily use/print?
Looks like a doubling rule … add 10 to the midi → double the frequency. Except it veers of around 16Hz
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Yes. Something like that.
I added the notes
| MIDI value | Frequency | Note |
| ---------: | --------: | ---: |
| 10 | 8 Hz | C0 |
| 20 | 16 Hz | C1 |
| 30 | 33 Hz | C2 |
| 40 | 66 Hz | C3 |
| 50 | 132 Hz | C4 |
| 60 | 264 Hz | C5 | (Middle C)
| 65 | 396 Hz | G5 |
| 70 | 528 Hz | C6 |
| 80 | 1056 Hz | C7 |
| 90 | 2112 Hz | C8 |
| 100 | 4224 Hz | C9 |
| 105 | 6336 Hz | G9 |
| 110 | 8448 Hz | C10 |
| 120 | 16885 Hz | C11 |
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Tchu
May 27, 2026, 3:49pm
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Anything wrong with the Notes @LyingDalai ?
Yes, they were totally wrong. I can’t seem to get an LLM to do this right
Edit: stupid me, these were all Cs.
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65 (396 Hz) and 105 (6336 Hz) are G’s, not C’s
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bibenu
May 27, 2026, 4:08pm
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Tch … I thought there was a ban on LLM content
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bibenu
May 27, 2026, 4:10pm
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Given the midi number is halfway between, I’d say F#/Gb
Tchu
May 27, 2026, 4:15pm
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Two C4 and two C8, one of them is wrong for sure.
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Jukka
May 27, 2026, 5:45pm
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Notice the CC values for the duplicates are different.
Is half way the fifth, G ?
ADDED : Yes it is 396 Hz is a G.
It’s logrithmic not linear.
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I added the errors manually, though.
Flekk
May 27, 2026, 7:49pm
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10 values = one octave seems logical.
12 values = one octave would have made more sense though.
PS: What’s wrong with 16? It’s half of 33.
(Well, 16.5 is, and that’s within measurement error…)
Flekk
May 27, 2026, 7:51pm
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How did you measure it? At the resonant peak value or at the -3dB point?
If I had to guess I’d say 440Hz would be CC value 64
Jukka
May 27, 2026, 7:55pm
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I took the number in igors48’s ( LyingDalai’s ) chart.
@LyingDalai I thought that on Syntakt (at least on UI) - MIDI 60 it is C5.
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But sure, if there isn’t anything around already, I would fire up Overbridge and measure some key points like 16, 32, 64, etc etc. Should be enough.
