Retuned pitch is not correct
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
- The pitch after retuning is weird. None of the 19 notes sounds the same with any 12-TET note.
- B# and Cb sound different.
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Comments
Hello, sorry for the very late reply. Let's take each of your concerns individually:
1. As for the notes "having weird pitch", that's simply how 19 TET works. Since 19 shares no factors with 12 aside from 1 (no power of the 19th root of 2 will yield the same result as a power of the 12th root of 2 except for 0 or 12/19 with the equal octave). None of the notes in 19 TET are supposed to sound the same as 12 TET notes except for A because of how the system works.
2. The difference in sound of B#/Cb has to do with how the system handles B and C when considering timbre. It considers B# as enharmonic to C because that's how it is in 12 TET, so it produces the sound and timbre of a C, likewise, Cb is treated as a B. They have the same pitch when I apply about a +53/-47 cent offset to each, but because they're treated as different notes by Musescore, they will not sound identical.