You wouldn't need 16 bits. Who wants to have 65535 bars? At 200 bpm this would be roughly 22 hours in 4/4 and 16 hours in 3/4. smile One needs quite some stamina to play that long.

But 12 bit is quite inconvenient to program nowadays.

I would even go to 64 bits. Then some areas of that field could be used to specify parts of a tune. Just imagine to have more than one chorus in a song and several verses.


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