Whats the difference between Musical and Linear time base settings for audio tracks in Cubase SX?
Linear and Musical based tracks are different in the way they respond to tempo changes in the Tempo Track and Transport Window. Both are highly precise in their positioning, using 64-bit floating point values. Musical based tracks have their positioning represented as bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks. If you change the tempo of the song in the Transport Window, the position of these tracks will change in relation to the new tempo. This doesn’t just apply to files with ACID code or files with hit points. We’re talking about how the file is positioned in the arrangement. Linear time based files are positioned via clock positions and changing the tempo in the Transport Window will not affect their position in time. The makers of Cubase SX say the positioning of Musical and Linear based tracks take an equal amount of computing power (one is not easier on the machine than another), but they do warn against switching between the modes on a track because a small loss of precision takes
