On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:
> The metrical level of the "beat" in western music is essentially
> arbitrary and I approve of MIDI's attempt to circumvent this; but If I
> were designing something similar now I would go with a fixed
> frames-per-second approach to timing and just insert events into the
> stream to mark the positions of beats, groups of beats ("bars"),
> groups of groups of beats ("phrases"), etc.
Yes. Tempo is just an illusion. There is no tempo between
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events. Periodicity is just a means of creating expectation.
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