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Back in 1982 when midi was developed Roland chose “C4” to represent Note 60. Yamaha, chose "C3" to represent note 60.

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fernandomaia wrote patrickviens wrote Even the Scientific notation method is not yet a standard. On the contrary, since there is a scientific standard, everyone should be using it, for the same reason that nobody should be using imperial measurement units anymore, and with more intensity since in music it's so easy to change, it's just one digit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation

Everyone should be using it is not yet a standard. Per your article the Scientific notation concept is apparently 300 years old, but it has obviously never been universally adopted by anyone. For the time being, when people launch their daw or use their vintage, midi capable hardware, they have to think in terms of midi note numbers and frequency because manufacturers, daw and plugins companies still follow manufacturer X way of naming pitches. The Midi association is coming up, with Midi 2.0, with a protocol to allow all these systems to interface correctly but what people would like, me included, is to have a way to configure the pitch names in daw X's piano roll.

Cakewalk : note 60 is named C5, Octave span starts a 0

Studio One : note 60 is named C3, Octave span is negative

Renoise : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts a 0

Bitwig : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts at 0

Ableton Live : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts a 0

Hardware X or plugin X : it varies as much

Cubase, surprisingly, has naming format preference setting

You can see how much the Yamaha culture (the middle C= C3 culture) influenced everybody involved with Midi. Cheers Everyone should be using it is not yet a standard. Per your article the Scientific notation concept is apparently 300 years old, but it has obviously never been universally adopted by anyone. For the time being, when people launch their daw or use their vintage, midi capable hardware, they have to think in terms of midi note numbers and frequency because manufacturers, daw and plugins companies still follow manufacturer X way of naming pitches.The Midi association is coming up, with Midi 2.0, with a protocol to allow all these systems to interface correctly but what people would like, me included, is to have a way to configure the pitch names in daw X's piano roll.Cakewalk : note 60 is named C5, Octave span starts a 0Studio One : note 60 is named C3, Octave span is negativeRenoise : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts a 0Bitwig : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts at 0Ableton Live : note 60 is named C3, Octave span starts a 0Hardware X or plugin X : it varies as muchCubase, surprisingly, has naming format preference settingYou can see how much the Yamaha culture (the middle C= C3 culture) influenced everybody involved with Midi.Cheers

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Is there a key of F?

F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.

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Major key and scale based on the note F