>saschafranck@... writes: >>Yes. I agree, the first thing we count allways is ONE... >>That's why starting with bar 1.0.0 isn't that unnatural for me. >>But well, why in the world do MIDI program numbers in Logic then >>start with 0? > >The MIDI standard as established in 1982 said that program (patch) >numbers go from 0-127 (not 1-128). Hi, just to add a remark: Values from 0 - 127 are seven bit range. "Primitive" computer technology (like midi devices developped in the early 80´s) uses values like 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 because the last number (ten) would afford two digits! Cheap machines could display 100 program changes from 00 to 99, and not from 001 - 100 (3 digits!) Maybe this is playing a role in this case. I´m no programmer, only a surviving victim of those early MIDI years ;-) >Sure, as is many things, it ought to be a preference for those folks >who are adamant about counting from zero (perhaps these same folks >are also adamant about not considering this coming New Years Eve >as numerically significant because of the big digit rollover to 2000, >but will wait until 2001?) > OT: My friends and I decided to make two big partys: One for the "big digit" (that is only of symbolic value) and one year later, Dec. 31 2000, the real one for the 3rd millenium (that is only of symbolic value as well) Yours TS