Questions tagged [frequency]

Frequency is a property of any repeating event, and in music, the phenomenon of pitch is qualitatively assessed via a sound wave's frequency, or number of vibrations per second. Higher sounds have higher frequency, and lower-pitched sounds have lower frequencies.

In music, the phenomenon of pitch can be described by the sound wave's frequency. Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time; in this case of oscillations of air molecules transferring sound into the ear. Each note can be described by its frequency, expressed in Hertz, and one modern standard of frequency in music puts the note A4 at exactly 440Hz. Frequency is inversely proportional to wavelength.

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Why is the relationship between frequency and pitch exponential?

I read that the formula relating frequency to the note played was: F = 440 × 2 n / 12 Where F is the frequency in hertz of the note played and n is the number of notes from middle A. It seems strange to me that this relationship is exponential,…
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How to calculate the resulting frequency of two tones played together?

I it possible to calculate the resulting frequency when you play two tones with a frequency of X and Y at the same time?
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Music Equalizer Advice

this is my first time figuring out that there is music section too in stack exchange. I usually just reading stack overflow. Anyway, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but is there any suggestion to set the "perfect" equalizer (good to…
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Producing single frequencies in Bitwig

How can single frequencies produced easily in bitwig? Ableton's operator for example has an option to input a single frequency which you can easily change yourself, and when you press every note in the keyboard it produces the same frequency. Cheers
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Formula to adjust a note by cents

I'm trying to find a formula to adjust a note frequency by a variable number of cents. So for example if a middle C was played then how do you find "N" cents adjustment to that frequency? I hope I'm explaining this correctly. I thought it was…
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EQ on a pedal specifically Parametric Bandwidth

I am using a software based synth program and have the option to add a Parametric EQ 'pedal' as an effect before console/mixing desk. This Parametric EQ pedal has 3 knobs: | FREQ | GAIN | BANDWIDTH or Q |: I understand the properties of each of…
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Harmonic Resonance and The Human Body

I realize that this is going to be looked at as an odd question but I was wondering if there is a certain Tone or Harmonic that causes a human being discomfort? Im not interested in volume per se but more in the frequency in Hertz (Urrgyh! No pun…
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At what frequencies do you usually high/low pass male vocal doubles?

I'm speaking in general but if it depends on the vocal how can I find out by ear?
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frequency components of C major scale

I was trying to replicate the notes of the C major scale on a circuit simulator and i found online that there are website that only give one frequency for a certain note in that octave, so i was wondering if all the 7 notes only contain one…
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