On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Kassen
Some notes;
A remark was made about the importance of timing in dance music. I don't think sample accuracy is mandatory there, at least not for sequencing. Even a well implemented MIDI clock (Atari,old MPC's) will service there beyond what most people need and MIDI is slooooow. Bad MIDI clocks may be a issue and require work-arounds. If you can get it down to the MS range for jitter and latency you are set, I'dsay.
I think any vinyl-loving DJ will agree with you on that. You can get away with tweaking and nudging the speed of a record while it's playing in order to keep the two beats synchronized, without it being audible. Interestingly, if you do this with two copies of the same record, you can hear an obvious manual flanging (comb filtering) effect. On a similar note, for a while circa 2001 I used to 'DJ' music in Impulse Tracker using two computers. (Impulse was a music sequencing program for DOS) They would drift apart, but I didn't use MIDI synchronization, just ear tracking and a keyboard shortcut for adjusting the BPM of the track, to keep them synched. Good times :) Steve