Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?

[Ben <benoitruelle@yahoo.fr>]

Hello, fun thread !

I use sometimes A=441 Hz when doing synthesis.
Just because it makes a perfect 100 samples cycle when using 44.100 
(CD) sampling frequency. 
Easier to have a perfect looping single cycle ;-)

Ben

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mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com> wrote:
(08/11/2012 10:12)

> ok fair point... "seems" did it.
> 
> Sent from my (advertisement removed)
> 
> On 8 Nov 2012, at 10:07, Sergio Girardi <simpliflying@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  You mean that you got fat before stopping or after stopping with 432? :)
> BTW you just said that it is a democracy and people can say if they do 
> not
> agree with a statement, which is right, and I would add that it could be
> interesting to just say "in my opinion" and say what one thinks, instead 
> of
> trying to deny what the other thinks.
> In this case for example he wrote "I've noticed that 440 SEEMS to", not
> that 440 IS mind. Personal impression. Undeniable. No universal 
> statement.
> So, why to even bother contradicting it? He noticed, you didn't...
> :)
> 
> ------------------------------
> From: markfrancombe@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 07:37:44 +0100
> Subject: Re: A = 440 Hz OR 432 Hz?
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> 
> On 8 Nov 2012, at 03:55, Jack Cattedra <the_beat_conductor@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>  every one of our informed opinions counts. :)
> 
> 
> Why? discussion on this list is a democracy, therfore one is allowed to
> hold a counter opinion, if you think someones augument or opinion, 
> informed
> or not, is flawed its perfectly ok to say so!
> 
> It's not like we have to handcuff ourselves to any one way of creating
> music.
> 
> 
> Of course not, you wont find a more experimental group if musicians on 
> the
> planet!
> 
> With further experimentation, I've noticed that 440 Hz seems to bring the
> music to the mind and 432 seems to bring it more to the heart.
> 
> 
> Oh really, you think that music that is 8 cents different will do that?
> What happens if you play 100 cents out? Oh yeah... a new key... Cant say
> Ive been feeling those shifts into heart music when I operate My whammy 
> bar.
> 
> 
> I think all of this is useful depending on what kind of music you are
> creating.
> 
> 
> Yeah... of course... try stuff out, Why not, and sure... we all know that
> tunings DO make you Sound different, but to sweepingly say that 440 is 
> mind
> and 432 is heart is nonsensical, for YOU maybe... on THAT day, with those
> notes your chose to play.
> 
> Me? I stopped tuning to 432 because it made me hungry, and so I got fat!
> 
> Mark