[gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <amulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:34:53 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>
> why would you queue up notes before their time? there is always a
> chance that you'll need to tear them down before they are rendered,
> and the simple possibility of a queue/teardown cycle makes the code
> more complex than if you just render them as needed.
> <<<
> If I queue them up in *musical* time units, then I will *seldom* need to
> tear the queue down. Musical time survives tempo changes...
Fine... in that case it's straightforward for your plug to compute musical
time at any place in the current block, based on absolute time and recent
tempo/sync events. Sorry if I'm going round in circles here, but is there
any reason why this kind of plug can't maintain musical time internally?
Regards,
Angus.
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