diff --git a/website/src/pages/understand/pitch.mdx b/website/src/pages/understand/pitch.mdx index aa812750..5ddfe2b5 100644 --- a/website/src/pages/understand/pitch.mdx +++ b/website/src/pages/understand/pitch.mdx @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The Hz number is the frequency of the pitch you're hearing. The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch and vice versa. A pitch occurs whenever something is vibrating / oscillating at a frequency, in this case it's your speaker. The unit **Hz** describes how many times that oscillation happens per second. -Our eyes are too slow to actually see the oscillation on the speaker, but we can [see it in slow motion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMBWw7OuJQ&t=5s). +Our eyes are too slow to actually see the oscillation on the speaker, but we can see it in slow motion. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ In Strudel, we can play frequencies directly with the `freq` control: ## Frequency vs Pitch Perception Maybe you have already noticed that the frequency slider is "lopsided", -meaning the pitch changes more in the left region and less in the right region. +meaning the pitch changes more in the left region and less in the right region.
To make that more obvious, let's add a pitch slider that controls the frequency on a different scale: @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ In Strudel, we could do that with `freq` like this: tune={`freq( "0 4 7 12" .fmap(n => 440 * 2**(n/12)) -).piano()`} +)`} /> Of course, this can be written shorter with note, as we will see below. @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Typically, 440Hz is standardized to the number 69, which leads to this calculati The yellow number is now a MIDI number, covering more than the whole human hearing range with numbers from 0 to 127. In Strudel, we can use MIDI numbers inside `note`: - + ## From MIDI numbers to notes