RE: Negative [?] note duration? h-h-huh?

At 08:01 PM 2001-01-10 -0800, Tim Thompson wrote:
>In my MIDI manipulations, I've never found a need for negative durations,
>but I've definitely found that negative start-times are useful to
>have.  Think of a measure of music with a lead-in note that starts before
>the measure starts - for some manipulations, you want the start of the
>measure to be at time 0, which means that the starting-time of the first
>note would be negative.  My 2 cents.       ...Tim...

Hm, I never thought of it that way.
Next time I'm looking at the MIDI::Score code, I'll see about changing it
to meaningfully support negative durations -- once I get this current
business of them appearing all cleared up.


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