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Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8
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Jacques Menu Muzhic |
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Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8 |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:09:47 +0100 |
Hello McLaren,
As a newbie to this kind of calculations in notes length, how I am supposed to
play them?
In particular, if others play them too?
JM
> Le 8 nov. 2016 à 09:02, David Kastrup <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> mclaren <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> An alternative method involves simply adding in the required rests, rather
>> than squishing or stretching the entire measure with a large tuplet. Since
>> this method is easy to calculate exactly because you're just adding and
>> subtracting various integer fractions, it always produces guaranteed
>> results. With very large tuplets, there seem to sometimes be floating point
>> inaccuracies in the calculations done inside Lilypond,
>
> LilyPond does not work with floating point or other inaccurate types for
> musical length calculations. Its own rationals (where it uses them
> rather than Guile's rather large rationals) however are limited in the
> maximum value of numerator and denominator. I don't think that it
> checks all cases for overflow, so when you exceed their sizes, results
> will not be inaccurate as much as completely off the wall.
>
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> David Kastrup
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- How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, mclaren, 2016/11/08
- RE: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, Andrew Bernard, 2016/11/08
- Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, David Kastrup, 2016/11/08
- Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, Urs Liska, 2016/11/08
- Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, mclaren, 2016/11/08
- RE: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, Andrew Bernard, 2016/11/08
- Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, Urs Liska, 2016/11/08
- Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8, Nathan Ho, 2016/11/08