On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:04 PM Andrew Janke <address@hidden> wrote:
On 1/29/20 11:53 AM, harish3679 wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> To find frequency using semitones value from A=440Hz
>
> We have, f = 2^(n/12)*440 //where n is the semitone value
>
> Now, to find semitone value for A=432Hz from 440Hz
>
> It is 432 = 2^(n/12)*440
>
> I came up with 2^n=0.92668
I think this is wrong it should be :
2^(n/12)=432/440
and take the log2 of that:
n/12=log2(432/440)
n=12*log2(432/440)
n = -0.31767
>
> Although have no clue how to calculate this in octave rather got an error
> saying
>
> "2^(n)=0.92668
> parse error:
>
> invalid left hand side of assignment"
>
> Someone, please shed light on this part
>
>
> Regards,
> Harish
>
You can't write arbitrary equations in Octave and have them figure it
out. The "=" sign is an assignment operation, and you need to have a
single variable on the left hand side. So re-work your equation so that
n is by itself on the left hand side.
I think this means taking the base-2 logarithm of both sides, and ending
up with:
n = log2(0.92688)
And that you can run in Octave:
>> log2(0.92668)
ans = -1.098568597196845e-01
Cheers,
Andrew