Question about playback end offset

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hi
While working on the rendering of a guitar piece, I’m manipulating playback end offsets to add body to the sound (sustain of ringing notes and ringing to open strings)
the question:
what is the exact values in “offset ticks” of a quarter note?

merci

Claude

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480 ticks per quarter note.

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thanks Rob

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Rob, I don’t doubt that you’re correct, but how do you know that? I can’t seem to find anything about it in the documentation.

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I think figured it out by experimenting with the start and end properties in playback. If the information came from somebody in Steinberg, I can’t remember who or when.

Working backwards, if you search for “480 ticks” there are several references including one from Daniel - and unsurprisingly Dorico is consistent with Cubase.

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Ah. Well, thanks. Helpful.

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Cubase can have a much greater Midi resolution than PPQ 480.
In the MIDI settings of Cubase you can set the Midi display resolution with any value from 60 Ticks to 1000 Ticks per 1/16.
It means from PPQ 240 to PPQ 4000.

In the MIDI Export dialog from Cubase you can also specify a MIDI resolution between 24 and 960 for the MIDI file.
BTW in this Midi Export Dialog it is not clearly mentioned wether these resolution values are for 1/16 or for quarter notes.

I have no idea which resolution Dorico is using.

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Dorico uses 480, as Rob states above.

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This is the closest thread I could find to this subject: In Dorico 3.5.10, I need to find out how to create a negative track delay in order to get VST instruments to playback with the metronome click. I found a “playback start option” but that can only be applied to each note. This is a common feature in Cubase, is it handled some other way in Dorico? Regards.

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Welcome to the forum, gwkean. I’m afraid at the moment there’s no way to offset an entire track. Can you say a bit more about your specific requirement? Is the click also being generated by Dorico? If so, then you should find that playback and the click are already perfectly aligned.

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Is gwkean really talking about input latency? If so, I think Dorico already has ways to work with that unless it’s a hardware problem, but not necessarily after the notes have been entered…