[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

[Tim Goetze]

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