Subject: Re: [ecasound] metronome timing accuracy
From: oliverthuns (smoerk_AT_gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 14:58:03 EEST
if it's a bug, i would call him steve reich ;-)
Carsten Bauer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> during playing around I tried to put two metronome signals together:
>
> ecasound -t:300 -a:1 -i:null -el:sine_fcac,880,1 -ea:50 -eemb:60,10
> -a:2 -i:null -el:sine_fcac,880,1 -eemb:6,1
> -a:all -o:metro.raw
>
> so one ticks every second, the other every 10 seconds. Interestingly, you hear
> signals go out of sync very soon, looking at the file with ecawave shows that
> the 6 bpm metronome is a bit slower compared to the 60 bpm one, after 180 sec
> it has 1 sec (~0.55%) delay and thus the two signals sound in sync again for
> a short while. What might be the reason for this deviation? Which signal can
> be trusted more?
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