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Understanding track timebases

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Understanding track timebases

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- [Instructor] As you start working with MIDI in a session, one of the things you'll notice is that your MIDI and instrument tracks are tick-based by default, Here we'll take a look at what exactly this means and discuss how it can effect your work. which has both an audio drums track and an instrument track with a MIDI drum part. I've also included a click track for reference. If we take a listen, we can hear that both tracks are currently playing back at the session tempo, matching up with the click. (electronic drum music) that are each two bars long, as indicated here in the length field. But that length is relative to the session tempo of 120 beats per minute. If we change the session tempo, that will effect the duration of each bar in absolute time. to make it change, and I'll set this to a tempo of 90 beats per minute instead. And now you can see the effect that this has had on my tracks. Let's take a listen to the MIDI drums in isolation. (electronic drum music) So we can hear…

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