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

[James Rich]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, mArukqs wrote:

> One 8/8 bar and one 4/4 bar at 120 bpm should be equal in length.
> And now metronome click works this way:
> 4/4
> 120
> O---x---x---x---O---x---x---x
>
> 8/8
> 120
> O---x---x---x---x---x---x---x

This is correct.

> But at 8/8 it should work like this:
> 8/8
> 120
> O-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-O-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

No it shouldn't.  This is basic music theory.  8/8 means 8 counts to a 
measure and an eighth note gets one count.  Ardour does it correctly. 
What you have drawn in your last example above is two measures.

James Rich