[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

[Tim Goetze]

Steve Harris wrote:

>> rhythmn is always based on one integral periodic 'pulse'. if 
>> time is not divisible by this atom, there is no musical time.
>
>I think there are some counter examples, eg. Reich's phase music? How
>about african polyrhythms? I'm not sure but I dont think the time unit is
>integral in those cases.

it is with african music for all i know, and with steve reich's 
music, it is simply many, but still integral, rhythmns at the same
time.

more examples?

>Seriously, there are good technical reasons for representing everything
>you can with floats.

just as there's good reasons to represent things like 1/3 with
fractions, right?

tim