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Duration

by Chris Meyer | Nov 16, 2016

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Duration is another way of saying length. A clock pulse or a gate signal that is “high” for a certain amount of time – say, 100 msec – is said to have a duration of 100 msec. The length of time you hold a note down, or the length of a step in a sequence, is also called its duration.

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