Re: question about outCurrentMeasureDownBeat in the Musical Time Callback
Re: question about outCurrentMeasureDownBeat in the Musical Time Callback
- Subject: Re: question about outCurrentMeasureDownBeat in the Musical Time Callback
- From: William Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:12:51 -0800
On 16/03/2004, at 3:19 PM, James Coker wrote:
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I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the outCurrentMeasureDownBeat
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parameter
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of the GetMusicalTimeLocation callback. The doc says:
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outCurrentMeasureDownBeat
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The beat that corresponds to the downbeat (first beat) of the current
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measure that is being rendered.
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So I think, ok find out what bar I'm in, and return the beat number
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for the downbeat. But then
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I look at the type if this property, and find it's a float, which
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implies that returning a non-integer value
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is legal, but that doesn't make any sense. Is it just that beats are
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always represented as Float64
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by convention?
Yes - but (as the docs describe I think) the downbeat could be a
partial number... think of a piece with 3/8 bars
We also consider that quarter notes are a beat.
Bill
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Thanks,
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Jim
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