Re: MIDI Tracks and Sequences

Hi Chris,

That was very, very helpful. Thanks. A needle in a huge haystack. Needs 
including in a "Getting started with Web MIDI" document...

I'm now going to find out if your last paragraph makes sense too... :-)

best,
James

Am 13.09.2012 01:22, schrieb Chris Wilson:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:58 PM, James Ingram <j.ingram@netcologne.de 
> <mailto:j.ingram@netcologne.de>> wrote:
>
>     By the way, DOMHRT time is AudioContext.currentTime, right?
>
>
> Heheh.  No.  :)  In fact, it's not even in the same units.
>
> DOMHRT time is defined by the Navigation Timing spec 
> (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/NavigationTiming/Overview.html) 
> - its initial use was for high-precision performance timing, but it's 
> taking over as the general-purpose clock for high-precision Javascript 
> timing.
>
> DOMHRT is in units of milliseconds, expressed as a floating point 
> number; the number represents the number of milliseconds since the 
> navigation to the page started.
>
> AudioContext.currentTime is in units of seconds, expressed as a 
> floating point number; the number represents the number of seconds 
> since the AudioContext was created.  Most importantly, however, the 
> clock may run at a different rate, as it is the audio hardware 
> system's clock, not the computer's system clock; it may well have a 
> different timing crystal.  In short, you can't just convert by 
> calculating the offset and multiplying/dividing by 1000.
>
> For this purpose, though, the AudioContext clock isn't relevant; you 
> should use the DOMHRT, and get the current time via
>
> var currentTime = window.performance.now();
>
> (actually, right now you have to use window.performance.webkitNow() in 
> Chrome.)
>
> Just set timestamps on the MIDI messages based on offsets from a 
> "start sequence" time that you choose; you can write all the MIDI 
> message timestamps out at first if you like, but you probably want to 
> just keep writing ahead on a setInterval loop.  (I don't know if what 
> I mean there makes sense.)


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