Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information
Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information
- Subject: Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:02:29 -0800
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Richard Dobson
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I will de-lurk to say that I understood it perfectly well; as the sort of
> composer who is very comfortable with time signatures such as 7/8. Even
> common-or-garden 9/8 is not something that can be rounded to a quarter note.
> To sync something to 9/8, the working beat unit (if not eighth notes) is the
> dotted quarter-note - i.e. three beats in a measure, not 4.5. The quoted
> assertion: "In common practice a beat is generally associated with a quarter
> note" is indeed very bad and makes Logic seem very conservative and banal.
> Anyone wanting to sync an effect to tempo will need to sync to those dotted
> quarter-notes. Can't say I have tried it; but it would be shocking indeed if
> Logic can't do it.
It's precisely that bias towards quarter note -> beat association that
tripped me up when I first saw this post, despite being a drummer
comfortable with polyrythms. :)
--Kyle Sluder
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| | >Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: William Stewart <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>) |