Computing delay times in Cake 9

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Does anyone know the formula or the millisecond equilvalent to a tick in the now time in Cake 9?

Ex: 3:01:037 to 3:01:038

Or maybe this would be a better way to ask the questiion. How would I get a 10 millisecond delay
utilizing the now time as my reference point?

Thanks!
 
It entirely depends upon the tempo of the piece. The ticks are measured in Parts per quarter note (PPQN or PPQ). The time between them is quicker for faster tempos.

The timebase can be adjusted as high as 480 PPQ in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, or up to 960 PPQ in SONAR.

If the tempo is 120 BPM in 4/4 time, there's one quarter note per beat, so there are as many as 480 equally-spaced divisions between each beat... at 2 beats per minute, that's 500 ms per beat divided by 480, or very close to 1 ms per tick. At 60 BPM this time would be twice as long.

To complicate it futher you can adjust the timebase to smaller values than the default maximum resolution.

Fortumnately you don't have to whip out the calculator... if you want a time-based timing reference rather than tempo-based info, just change the clock to display in SMPTE time. This is expressed in hours:minutes:seconds:frames, where frames is typically 1/30 of a second.
 
Excellent AC!

Now if you dont mind...may I ask what are the advantages or disadvantages of setting the resolution at 480. I have just assumed that I was gaining better resolution of the midi performance being recorded and
have always set it at 480.

And maybe that will explain why I can,t seem to get the
quantize function to work like I thought it was suppose to work. I have been expecting the quantize feature to
quantize beginning with the first note of my performance based on the parameters set in quantize
mode. Does the first note have to be aligned with the
beginning of a measure if Im in the measure time mode?

I hope I didnt drift to far off tangent here..but I would appreciate it..Thanks
 
how quantize works

quantize shifts the notes towards the closest beat according to the timing given. for instance, if you are quantizing 80% using 16th note timing, then all the notes will be shifted 80% closer to the closest 16th note timing.
 
Thanks Cross,

Now, does the resolution setting have an affect on how quantize works? I have been leaving my resolution
at 480 for everything I do. Im not sure this is necessary.

Your thoughts on this? Thanks again
 
I guess if you had music with lots of odd beat divisions, tuplets of seven and nine and eleven and such rather than something divisible by 2, you might get some more precision with a timebase evenly divisible by seven or nine or eleven or whatever...

but I bet I couldn't hear the difference...
 
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