4.6 MIDI Note Naming Reference
MIDI notes are numbers between 0 and 127, while music notes are lettered A through G# (in traditional
Western notation) —!there must be a way to convert between the two. There are actually multiple
standards for naming MIDI note numbers, which can make things tricky.
KMI follows the C3=60 standard for naming/numbering notes. Below is a chart that can help with
converting note numbers to note names and vice versa.
Note: Other software/hardware may follow the C4=60 naming scheme (or even C5=60), which can lead to
some confusion when MIDI mapping or setting up 12 Step. All MIDI notes will appear to be an octave off (by
name), but in MIDI-land they have the same note number —!which is all that matters.
Octave
Note Names / Numbers (C3=60)
C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119
120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127
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