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Old 12-16-2012, 03:34 AM   #7
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In audio you can always tell the absolute time of each sample because the sample rate is known. In MIDI you know for each event at which measure/beat/tick it occurs, but not when (in absolute time) this measure/beat/tick position takes place.
That's why the "ignore project tempo..." option needs the "use xxx BPM" component.

A possibility would be to always include a tempo marker with each MIDI Reaper records (actually, to make it work reliably it would need to also include each tempo marker that might be already existing in your project at the time you record), but only use these tempo markers to calculate absolute time when in [timebase = time] mode and disregard them in "Beats" mode. Not sure but I've got the hunch this might be a can full of ugly worms.
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