[gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:31:16 -0700 (PDT)
> The straightforward thing to do is to represent musical time, which is a real
> number, with one of the builtin data types that C/C++ provides for real
> numbers, i.e. float or double. Doubles should probably be used to guarantee
> enough precision. The unit should be a traditional one, either beats or
> measures, rather than an artifical technical construct like the tick. I would
> vote for beats.
Disagree - this is not the sort of thing the end musician cares about, but
it IS the sort of thing that impacts the code.
A tick is the hosts finest level of granularity. This abstraction allows
for hosts to have very fine or very coarse accuracy, depending on the needs
of the situation.
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