Assigning note values – Motorola 009 User Manual

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To play the C scale starting with middle C and ending with the C above middle C, type the
following:

4CDEFGAB 5C

To play the C scale starting with middle C, and then play the descending scale, type the
following:

4CDEFGAB 5C 4BAGFEDC

Assigning Note Values

In music, notes have values that define how long the note should be sounded. The following
table describes the note values supported by alert script language. When the device plays an
alert, the notes are held for the length of time shown in the alert script language time value
column.

Note

Name

Relative
length

Alert script
language
symbol

Alert script language
time value

Whole note

4 beats

w

2 seconds

Half note

2 beats

h

1 second

Quarter note

1 beat

q

½ second

Eighth note

½ beat

e

¼ second

Sixteenth note

¼ beat

s

1/8 second

Thirty-second note

1/8 beat

t

1/16 second

Dot

Increase the
length of note
50 percent

.

Increase the time
value 50 percent

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