Re: MIDI tick resolution

[David Wright]

On Mon 19 Mar 2018 at 21:04:47 (-0500), Karlin High wrote:
> On 3/19/2018 8:49 PM, Ivan Kuznetsov wrote:
> >So what if four notes are of length 77 and one note is length 76?
> >No one can hear the difference.
> 
> I'd say so, too. But human-listening is only one use case for a MIDI
> file, and in this area I don't know what others would surprise me.
> 
> Example: Humdrum
> <http://www.humdrum.org/guide/ch01/#what-can-humdrum-do>
> 
> I looked at that, and found it sort of staggering. I'd probably have
> to study for several years to do any good with it.

Well, I've only glanced at the reference given above, but it looks
as though it can quantise note lengths in two different ways.
The Record command handles input from a MIDI instrument with the
-q option. The Recode command processes information already in
files: its description calls note lengths that have been quantised
“rhythmically justified”.

> Or maybe the proper response to certain such use cases would be, "If
> you're going to be so technical, go further yet and develop an AI of
> some sort that can pattern-recognize the format limitations and
> determine what to do with them."

Cheers,
David.