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Owen S. 2010-07-08 19:45:55

Right. Ticks per beat. btw, 'tick' size is like TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond etc.? I am new to MIDI stuff, just trying to get involved. thanks for you help, your response is indeed complex, it will help if you could simplify it, or else i will have to dig in it more...

Shimmy 2010-07-08 20:05:07

@Shimmy: They're not the same tick, though the concept is similar. When TimeSpacn refers to ticks, it's referring to a unit that's defined by the OS, which tends to have a fixed relationship to seconds. Ticks in the MIDI world are an abstract unit defined by the time division, and may or may not have a fixed relationship to seconds or to OS ticks for that matter. The purpose of both ticks is to represent time efficiently by using integer values, yet to choose an interval of time between integers that's small enough to allow you to describe timings moderately precisely.

Owen S. 2010-07-08 23:21:52

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