How a line places its onsets against the meter: density, metric placement,
interval spacing, rest, and Longuet-Higgins & Lee syncopation.
Onsets within 0.05 beat of one another read as one, and an
onset further than 1/32 beat from the nearest twelfth-of-a-beat slot is read
as off grid; every onset is moved to its nearest slot for everything
downstream of it, so an unquantized line reads a real but reduced
syncopation rather than a spurious one from a grid it never intended to sit
on.
How a line places its onsets against the meter: density, metric placement, interval spacing, rest, and Longuet-Higgins & Lee syncopation.
Onsets within 0.05 beat of one another read as one, and an onset further than 1/32 beat from the nearest twelfth-of-a-beat slot is read as off grid; every onset is moved to its nearest slot for everything downstream of it, so an unquantized line reads a real but reduced syncopation rather than a spurious one from a grid it never intended to sit on.