Absolute position in quarter-note beats.
A single signature, or the piece's meter map.
Digits of the fractional beat to keep.
The formatted position in one of two forms: bar.beat on a felt
beat, e.g. '3.2' for bar 3, felt beat 2; and bar.beat+fraction between
felt beats, e.g. '3.2+0.5' halfway from the second felt beat to the third.
A reader of these strings has to take both, since most onsets of an ordinary
piece fall between pulses.
Render an absolute position as the
bar.beata DAW or a score shows: 1-based bar, 1-based felt beat.The felt beats counted are the ones the bar actually has. A meter change starts a new bar, so the bar it interrupts is short, and a position that rounds past the end of a short bar reads as the downbeat of the next one rather than as a beat the bar never reached.