Whale's scales?

[kajiotaku]

Couldn't you just isolate a common-pitch waveform at the start of the "portamello area" and after it, loop it, and then use DirectWave to find it's root key? Anyway, I'm just about to go home and work on it so I should have results by tomorrow or the day after.

[kajiotaku]

So far I have:

Humpback 1:

B G# G F# E C

That's all since some of the things I got weren't actual songs, but "raspberry" like sounds.

[Aroused by JarJar]

So far I have:

Humpback 1:

B G# G F# E C

That's all since some of the things I got weren't actual songs, but "raspberry" like sounds.

What were the actual frequencies? Whales don't sing exponents of the square root of two (12-tET).

[jopy]

I can't interpret a lot of this paper myself because I don't know much about the science of hearing at all, but maybe others might have some opinions on what this means for the frequencies that whales hear:

http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/csi/image ... n_1997.pdf

[kajiotaku]

Ok, I finished the scale for the Blue Whale...but, alas, it is on my home computer x-x I'll try to put it on here when I get home x-x

[jancivil]

Honestly, I think trying to boil what's happening with the sound a whale makes (it has been cited in this very thread as extremely complex) down to 'scales', in 12-et no less, misses the whole idea of what's interesting about that sound.

[kajiotaku]

Blue Whale 1:

D# E5 F# G# A# B

In response to the post above me, it's still somewhat useful.

[Star Monkey]

Really interesting thread.

Some audio examples would be great. Could you put together the "notes" that you make up these scales?