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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
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> Well to be honest, I can hear 50mS when I line up two sounds in left and right. It's not easy but you can hear it.
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Ok but a lot of people purposely introduce artificial lags in their sequences because it sounds more 'realistic', that's what functions called 'shuffle' and 'groove quantize' are supposed to do. I don't know how much those functions tend to offset though. I guess I should do some offset experimentation to see how off 50ms sounds. Oh well, I hope you do manage to tighten it up a little, I'm sure if you get it around 10 or 20ms that would be good enough. My master sequencer is often Beatpad running on a Palm Vx (because it unfortunately can't slave to clock), and it operates using the Palm's 10ms-accurate clock, giving a +/- of 5ms timing discrepency, and I've never noticed any problem with that, it sounds really tight. I never really understood why some people consider high ppqn rates in sequencers to be so desirable, either. Is a sequencer with 96ppqn resolution really going to sound any different than one with a 480ppqn resolution??