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Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information
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Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information


  • Subject: Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information
  • From: James McCartney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:06:03 -0800

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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 >AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: Doug Wyatt <email@hidden>)
 >Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: Doug Wyatt <email@hidden>)
 >Re: AU, plugin tempo, musical time information (From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>)

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