>>> Why do we need musical time at all? Can't a single tick of sufficient resolution cover all of our needs, musical, samples, and UST? <<< I think we always need UST, just to have a "wall clock" reference, to allow synchronization. If you try to sync to audio streams being sent to 2 different sound cards, they well progress at different rates relative to one another because each card has its own electrically separate clock. But for the time that's used the represent the current stream time, I agree, why can't one unit cover all bases? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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