Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Tim Goetze (tim_AT_quitte.de)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 04:50:08 EET


David Olofson wrote:

>> the good thing about 1920 is it is divisible by both 3 and 4;
>> this lets both triplets and even sub-beats evaluate to integer
>> ticks.
>
>...which get rounded to the nearest integer audio sample frame
>anyway, as far as events are concerned.

but in any sane system built to be precise, you don't truncate
until really needed, do you?
 
>> it is a value that should be set by the host, or in turn
>> the user, exercising his right to make the choice.
>
>Yes indeed - but I don't see a reason to force every plugin to keep
>track of it. Just make it 1.0, and the sequencer can use whatever it
>likes internally and/or in the UI.

who said a plugin needs to care about it? afaik, your plugins
need only audio frame timings. ;)

tim


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