substituting a series of number by charachters

[pierrer]

Hi everyone,

I have a variable number ranging between 0 and 127 in box E2 of my spreadsheet. I want to interpret that value in box E1 according to the following table:
http://andymurkin.files.wordpress.co...e-no-chart.jpg

For instance, 0 in E2 should show C-1 in box E1, 1 should be C#-1, 2 should be D-1 and so on.
Anyone has an idea how I can do this ? I am quite a beginner so the more simple the better...

Cheers!
Pierre

[Special-K]

Why does everyone insist on posting pictures instead of actual spreadsheets?

I can't read that picture since I'm at work, but I know I could have downloaded a spreadsheet had you done so.

Looks like a VLOOKUP would help.
Is this musci related (I don't know cos I can;t download the picture)?

[etaf]

cant see the table - but it would be better to attach the spreadsheet here

you maybe able to use vlookup or index match to lookup the value and get the corresponding value and put it into the next cell
BUT if you want to replace the actual value in the cell - ie change 1 to C#-1 then it would need a macro/vba program

[pierrer]

yes it is music related: i put a sound frequency in box B2, it gives me the closest not in MIDI Note Number convention in box E2 (plus offset in cents in E3) and I would like to read the "musical" note name in box E1

The chart shows which MIDI note number correspond to which musical note.

So far, I had success with "substitute, even if it would be a bit heavy to do the whole 127 values. But I ran into trouble for numbers above 9: 10 is detected as 1 and 0...

I'll check Vlookup, let me know if anything better comes to mind ?

[etaf]

you have 8.7 in b2
wheres the table to lookup the value 8.7 ?

[pierrer]

You should enter - manually - a number value in B2, anything between,say, 8 and 5000 or something like that.
Then the desired calculation is done and gives me, amongst other things, an integer value between 0 and 127 in E2.

It is this value that I want to translate into combinations of letters (A to G) and numbers, that represent the note and octave - you should see a couple of pictures on the spreadsheet, one of which is a table giving a letter and number for all values between 0 and 127. Not sure if my explanations make sense to you ?

[etaf]

as you need to make a table from that image
you may as well create a linear list rather than a grid

0 to 127 in column A

and the corresponding letter/number in column B
and then vlookup would work fine

[shg]

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...arachters.html

[pierrer]

thanks shg for the formula, it works very well!

[pierrer]

that s all working perfectly now thanks!

[shg]

You're welcome.

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