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Old 03-20-2016, 05:06 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by pbk View Post
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Try moving and shuffling things around several times, in particular using regions, cutting and pasting items or nudging note selections, and the shift of MIDI notes accumulate and start being very noticeable, even visually with notes that lose grid alignment. Of course, you always have the option to quantize, however that usually kills the subtleties of human performance and can again affect the sound of a mix.
If you look the way MIDI events are positioned (by checking the API and getting your hands dirty with MIDI stuff) you can see that it's sort of impossible for them to gradually lose position by moving items around because their positions are PPQ values relative to the item start. You can move an item 1,000,000,000 times and those values won't change.

Where you place the item is a different matter.

I think some people get tripped up by items not being exactly on grid and leaving snap to media items on or using duplicate actions. Since regions snap to the end of adjacent regions I can see how this happens there too.
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