Graphic
scale and time accuracy
Fig.23
shows a few dialogs activated by the "Misc" menu.
Fig.23
Graphic scale, time accuracy, etc.
Time
accurac
y
is set in the "Accuracy" dialog.
Time
resolution
is the shortest significant time interval, i.e. the resolution of the in-built
MIDI driver. Its default value is 10 milliseconds, but you might want to
change it (down to 1 millisecond). Because of the inaccuracy of MIDI devices,
however, time resolution less than 10ms is rather illusory.
Note
that timings in the Csound output (see §17) are not influenced by the time
resolution.
Internal
computations use 1ms resolution. BP2's clock uses
long
integer
numbers in range 0..2
31.
This allows you to handle items lasting up to:
0.001
x 2
31
=
2,147,483 seconds = about 24 days...
The
"Accuracy" dialog also displays the setting of
quantization
(see reference manual §6). "
MIDI
set-up time"
is an estimation of the time needed by MIDI codes to transit through the MIDI
driver. A 100ms value is safe. Small values sometimes lead to incorrect
timings in the beginning of items.