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liveinthemix · 08-09-2012, 02:30 AM

The latest versions of most MIDI + Audio sequencers offer extremely high resolution for the timing of both MIDI and audio events. Emagic's Logic Audio is renowned for its tight timing of 960ppqn (pulses per quarter note) and Steinberg's release of Cubase 5.0 raised this resolution even further to 15360 fractions per quarter note. Although this internal resolution is always used, you can choose a lower display resolution such as 7860, 1536, 480, or 384 ticks per quarter note, which makes it quicker and easier to position things on screen.
Some musicians expected all their MIDI timing errors to disappear once such high timing resolution was offered by sequencers, but unfortunately this only deals with part of the problem. While the start times and lengths of both audio and MIDI events are being time-stamped to an accuracy of 1/15360th of a quarter note, they still each have many more hurdles to jump before you hear the end result, such as passing the PCI buss and surviving the interruption of the many background tasks of the Windows operating system.

08-09-2012, 02:30 AM	#2
liveinthemix Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Zagreb, Las Vegas Posts: 36	Re: MIDI Timing The latest versions of most MIDI + Audio sequencers offer extremely high resolution for the timing of both MIDI and audio events. Emagic's Logic Audio is renowned for its tight timing of 960ppqn (pulses per quarter note) and Steinberg's release of Cubase 5.0 raised this resolution even further to 15360 fractions per quarter note. Although this internal resolution is always used, you can choose a lower display resolution such as 7860, 1536, 480, or 384 ticks per quarter note, which makes it quicker and easier to position things on screen. Some musicians expected all their MIDI timing errors to disappear once such high timing resolution was offered by sequencers, but unfortunately this only deals with part of the problem. While the start times and lengths of both audio and MIDI events are being time-stamped to an accuracy of 1/15360th of a quarter note, they still each have many more hurdles to jump before you hear the end result, such as passing the PCI buss and surviving the interruption of the many background tasks of the Windows operating system.