[sdiy] PPQN (Grrrrrr...)

[ChristianH]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:06:02 +0000 Justin Owen <juzowen at googlemail.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Wiltshire [tom at electricdruid.net]
> 
> On 17 Dec 2009, at 15:25, ChristianH wrote:
> 
> >> Um - a 'whole note' is the same as a full bar (at 4/4, which means  a bar consists of 4 times 1/4).
> >> A beat is usually considered the same as a quarter note.
> >> Christian
> 
> > I'm definitely with Christian on this. A beat is a crotchet is a  quarter note,
> > so there are 96 ticks per bar, and 96 ticks per whole  note.
> >T
> 
> Yup - I stand informed and corrected.
> 
> Here's to dumb questions and smart answers.

No need to feel dumb - even Microsoft didn't get it together. 
I don't remember the details, but in the multimedia API they confused
bars and beats. I think it was that the default division setting is
specified as 96 per bar, but in fact is 96 per quarter note. Or
something like that, it' s been a while.

Christian