I want to know how to convert MIDI ticks to actual playback seconds.
For example, if the MIDI PPQ (Pulses per quarter note) is 1120, how would I convert it into real world playback seconds?
The formula is 60000 / (BPM * PPQ) (milliseconds).
Where BPM is the tempo of the track (Beats Per Minute).
(i.e. a 120 BPM track would have a MIDI time of (60000 / (120 * 192)) or 2.604 ms for 1 tick.
If you don t know the BPM then you ll have to determine that first. MIDI times are entirely dependent on the track tempo.
You need two pieces of information:
Ticks can be converted to playback seconds as follows:
ticks_per_quarter = <PPQ from the header>
µs_per_quarter = <Tempo in latest Set Tempo event>
µs_per_tick = µs_per_quarter / ticks_per_quarter
seconds_per_tick = µs_per_tick / 1.000.000
seconds = ticks * seconds_per_tick
Note that PPQ is also called "division" or "ticks per quarter note" in the document linked above.
Note that Tempo is commonly represented in BPM (a frequency) but raw MIDI represents it in µs per quarter (a period).
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