Exactly. Good work.

Great. I'm glad you now acknowledge that there is nothing intrinsic about the human ear hearing seven logical progressions and five that seem "off".

 

What does any of that have to do with why and octave is called an octave?

I think Wayneh in post #27 explained it.
In the western musical scale, there a 7 notes with the 8th being double the frequency of the first, hence "octave".

 

That octave thingy and the doubling of freq....
That's a log function of hearing response

Right?

Wrong.
The perceived intensity of a sound is logarithmic (hence the dB scale for sound intensity) but the frequency of the sound has nothing to do with that.
The perceived musical tones are due to the ratio of the frequencies.

 

I think Wayneh in post #27 explained it.
In the western musical scale, there a 7 notes with the 8th being double the frequency of the first, hence "octave".

He did. As did others, myself included. My question was specific to the response that was quoted (which was itself a response to a post explaining why that term is used) -- what did THAT have to do with why the term "octave" was used?

 

He did. As did others, myself included. My question was specific to the response that was quoted (which was itself a response to a post explaining why that term is used) -- what did THAT have to do with why the term "octave" was used?

Sorry if I misunderstood your question.
So then we've established that the word octave is derived from octal for the sequence of 8 primary notes in Western music which give a doubling of the frequency.

 

Since we are on the topic of number base and music, what I find to be a little bit funny is that if you make music on a computer you'll most likely be working with hex. It probably has to do with the fact that most western pop music uses 4 times 4 beats.

 

Since we are on the topic of number base and music, what I find to be a little bit funny is that if you make music on a computer you'll most likely be working with hex. It probably has to do with the fact that most western pop music uses 4 times 4 beats.

 

Lost in translation perhaps Or maybe I'm not sure what the confusion is

What I was trying to explain is that even though bin->hex is "natural" to computer programmers it doesn't mean that it would be to users of a computer. But since that in most pop music 4*4 beats per verse or chorus, or something that could be divided by 4. Hex is the logical choice for a music program.

I'm talking about events in time not the frequency of a continuous sound wave.

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 etc
B------------B------------B------------B------------B

B= Bassdrum in a generic house/techno/trance song for an example.

Hope that clears it a bit.

 

Lost in translation perhaps Or maybe I'm not sure what the confusion is

What I was trying to explain is that even though bin->hex is "natural" to computer programmers it doesn't mean that it would be to users of a computer. But since that in most pop music 4*4 beats per verse or chorus, or something that could be divided by 4. Hex is the logical choice for a music program.

I'm talking about events in time not the frequency of a continuous sound wave.

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 etc
B------------B------------B------------B------------B

B= Bassdrum in a generic house/techno/trance song for an example.

Hope that clears it a bit.

Think the OP's question has been answered.

 

Yeah probably in post #2 or 4