[ardour-users] ardour-users Digest, Vol 22, Issue 12

[mArukqs]

More information:
compare it with signature settings in Muse.

8/8 in Muse plays 2 times faster.

So, ardour shows 8/8, but it plays 8/4 :/ It's a bug.

mArukqs

> On Monday 07 November 2005 06:41, mArukqs wrote:
>> I have the same problem.
>>
>> I tried to change time signature too. I tried 16/16, 8/8, 4/8, etc., but
>> it still plays as 4/4. So I need to change tempo to 240 if I want 8/8 at
>> 120bpm :(
>>
>> Marukqs
>>
>
> Strictly speaking the "beat" is the 1/8 in an 4/8 measure, so the tempo
> applies to the 1/8. The common use however (in popular music) is to see
> bpm
> as quarters per minute. What really needs to be defined is the beat-type
> that
> the metronome number applies to. Right know this is the beat-type of the
> current timesignature.
> More sensible solutions for x/8 bars are quarter-noter or
> dotted-quarter-noter
> (6/8) this goes for all compound time-signatures.
> To do this elegantly, it would be nice to show the metronome symbol for
> traditional music notation in the bpm ruler.
>  |           |
> x  = 120 or x .=90 etc.
>
> cheers
>
> Gerard
>
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