the midi clock is something like 1,000 less precise than the resolution of sampled audio.
Midi clock is related to (song's) tempo, which can be, say, 100 beats per minute, where iN the case of 4/4 you'd have 100 black notes (dont know the name in english, in castillian is "negras") per minute, and thus 25 bars.
The midi resolution, which is different in every seq, tells how many fractions of a black note you can get (of course the more the better)
in audio, we measure how many times (samples) a second of audio is divided. In CDs that's 44,100 times a second (read, every 44,100th of a second we "look" at the audio graphical representation, and quantize (measure) that precise moment/"point"/"height" in the graphical with 16 bits resolution -that is, with an scale that goes from 0 to 65,000 aprox).
So, (distributed) clocks in audio are used to tell every machine in the chain which pattern to follow at a rate of several dozen thousand times a second (44,100 up to 192,000)
See the clock as the tam-tam player of those old Roman ships you've seen on the peplum movies, and "marching director" stating the speed and pattern for the slaves to row.
Good quality clocks also have minimal jitter, which is the differences in the time-lapse between every tam-tam (they all must be equal, at to the picosecond level)
Dust off my MiniDisk player and be thankfull I didn't e-bay it
I already did eBay my portable DAT recorder... now I'm wishing I had it around as a way to get analog audio into digital form for my not-yet-here-but-on-the-way G5. I have an old MiniDisc recorder too, but if I use that, I'll be adding a generation of digital compression to the process.
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the midi clock is something like 1,000 less precise than the resolution of sampled audio.
Midi clock is related to (song's) tempo, which can be, say, 100 beats per minute, where iN the case of 4/4 you'd have 100 black notes (dont know the name in english, in castillian is "negras") per minute, and thus 25 bars.
The midi resolution, which is different in every seq, tells how many fractions of a black note you can get (of course the more the better)
in audio, we measure how many times (samples) a second of audio is divided. In CDs that's 44,100 times a second (read, every 44,100th of a second we "look" at the audio graphical representation, and quantize (measure) that precise moment/"point"/"height" in the graphical with 16 bits resolution -that is, with an scale that goes from 0 to 65,000 aprox).
So, (distributed) clocks in audio are used to tell every machine in the chain which pattern to follow at a rate of several dozen thousand times a second (44,100 up to 192,000)
See the clock as the tam-tam player of those old Roman ships you've seen on the peplum movies, and "marching director" stating the speed and pattern for the slaves to row.
Good quality clocks also have minimal jitter, which is the differences in the time-lapse between every tam-tam (they all must be equal, at to the picosecond level)
hope this helps.
Originally posted by pfflam
Dust off my MiniDisk player and be thankfull I didn't e-bay it
I already did eBay my portable DAT recorder... now I'm wishing I had it around as a way to get analog audio into digital form for my not-yet-here-but-on-the-way G5. I have an old MiniDisc recorder too, but if I use that, I'll be adding a generation of digital compression to the process.