On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Paul Davis wrote: > musical time is defined by ticks whose duration measured by any other > reference clock can vary widely. for example, consider what happens > when the tempo moves from 30 to 180 beats per minute. the number of > musical ticks per second shifts to follow that. with accelerando, the > ticks per second value is essentially changing continuously. you don't > really want to force most plugins to deal with this unless they have > to, do you? No... it seems tempo events (sync pulses that, remember, can be delivered at density >1 per block if absolutely necessary) solve that one. > if you don't supply musical ticks, you have to provide access to the > tempo map, which is a much more difficult thing to agree upon: the > format and mechanism of access both have to be defined. yikes... :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe