Why do MIDI patterns work without the server running?

[dkmayer]

If you refer to pattern based sequencing using the server (not MIDI), check here:

Imperfection of language-based timing

This goes back to an observation of my colleague Gerhard Eckel. I posted this a while ago on the mailing list, but can’t find it anymore in the archives. As I think it’s an interesting topic I’m reposting it here again for future reference. Timing in general is a crucial topic and practically users are mainly confronted with asynchronicity between server and language, latency, quantization, the Out/OffsetOut differences etc. Sample-accurate timing isn’t relevant in all contexts, nevertheless in…