No, it applies both to users and to plugins. For example, all plugins need an absolute time reference, but some plugins also will have musical smarts and need musical time reference, e.g. "change filter Q at musical time 3.1.145"; this matters especially if tempo changes. Original Message: ----------------- From: Tim Hockin thockin@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:44:36 -0700 (PDT) To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation > What I suggest then is that we define types for these "actually, it's an > integer" quantities such as sample frames, bars, beats, ticks, and so on so > that they will ACT LIKE real numbers in a metric space - when we want them > to. This can be done using type conversion operators and so on. Isn't this a problem for the host to display to the user, and NOT part of the API? The host can present the user: "place a note at bar 3.1415" and internally convert that to the nearest tick. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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