Tangmo,

In what program are you doing your editing? How the length of a 32nd note is interpreted will depend on the display settings in place.

One thing to watch out for is that you mention that the style you are using is a swing 16 style. This means that each 1/8th note will be subdivided into a triplet of 1/16th notes rather than the usual two 1/16th notes. It is this triplet that produces the swing 16 feel.

This means that each 1/8th note will contain two triplets of 1/32nd notes.

In BIAB, a quarter note contains 120 ticks. This means that an 1/8th note consists of 60 ticks, that a 1/16th note consists of 30 ticks and that a 1/32nd notes consists of 15 ticks.

In a swing 16 style, the 1/8th note will still consist of 60 ticks but because of the triplet of 1/16th notes for each 1/8th note, this means that each note in the 1/16th triplet will contain 20 ticks (i.e. 1/3 x 60 = 20).

I'm not sure if these numbers will help you but they might offer some insight.

Regards,
Noel



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