I think higher ppq's, higher resolutions, the higher sampling rate of quarter notes are a sign of the times. As CPU's get faster and more powerful, we'll see sampling rates go up. As we continue to strive for sonic nirvana from a man-made device, we'll see sampling rates go up. And what do we the end user get from this technological advancement?

How 'bout Megavoices for starters? New voice banks, new control events, new types of responses from said voice banks when receiving said control events. All in the name of what? More realistic sound reproduction.

I can just imagine the sound engineers saying, "Sure we can reproduce the subtle nuances of the resonances of a steel guitar string after being plucked by a nylon pick." But there's a lot of information stored in just one second of that kind of waveform. If I'm going to duplicate that info electronically, I need many, many placeholders in time to store the necessary control events that will manipulate the sound waveform being generated. Hence, increased sampling rates or ppq's.

And I'm just talking the keyboard here. I haven't added the player to the equation. That's a bigger can of worms for another day.

mike