PitchName.h

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   Audacity: A Digital Audio Editor
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   PitchName.h
   Vaughan Johnson, Dominic Mazzoni
 
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#ifndef __AUDACITY_PITCHNAME__
#define __AUDACITY_PITCHNAME__
 
class TranslatableString;
 
// FreqToMIDInote takes a frequency in Hz (exponential scale relative to
// alphabetic pitch names) and returns a pitch ID number (linear
// scale), such that A440 (A4) is 69, middle C (C4) is 60, etc.
// Each register starts with C (e.g., for middle C and A440,
// it's register 4).
// MIDI note number 0 is C-1 in Scientific pitch notation.
AUDACITY_DLL_API double FreqToMIDInote(const double freq);
 
AUDACITY_DLL_API double MIDInoteToFreq(const double dMIDInote);
 
// PitchIndex returns the [0,11] index for a double MIDI note number,
// per result from FreqToMIDInote, corresponding to modulo 12
// of the integer part of (dMIDInote + 0.5), so 0=C, 1=C#, etc.
AUDACITY_DLL_API unsigned int PitchIndex(const double dMIDInote);
 
// PitchOctave returns the octave index for a double dMIDInote note number,
// per result from FreqToMIDInote.
// MIDI note number 0 is C-1 in Scientific pitch notation.
AUDACITY_DLL_API int PitchOctave(const double dMIDInote);
 
enum class PitchNameChoice { Sharps, Flats, Both };
 
// PitchName takes dMIDInote (per result from
// FreqToMIDInote) and returns a standard pitch/note name [C, C#, etc.).
AUDACITY_DLL_API TranslatableString PitchName(
   const double dMIDInote,
   const PitchNameChoice choice = PitchNameChoice::Sharps );
 
// PitchName_Absolute does the same thing as PitchName, but appends
// the octave number, e.g., instead of "C" it will return "C4"
// if the dMIDInote corresponds to middle C, i.e., is 60.
AUDACITY_DLL_API TranslatableString PitchName_Absolute(
   const double dMIDInote,
   const PitchNameChoice choice = PitchNameChoice::Sharps);
 
AUDACITY_DLL_API
double PitchToMIDInote(const unsigned int nPitchIndex, const int nPitchOctave);
 
AUDACITY_DLL_API
double PitchToFreq(const unsigned int nPitchIndex, const int nPitchOctave);
 
#endif   // __AUDACITY_PITCHNAME__