Comments by "WhatAboutTheBee" (@WhatAboutTheBee) on "Perfect Timing (with the Marble Machine X)" video.

  1. From the peanut gallery: In Martin's companion video, we learn that each tooth corresponds to ~0.010 seconds (ten milliseconds). From observation then, each engraved number represents 100 milliseconds. If I've got this wrong, it is entirely my fault. I do not think the numbers have absolute meaning though. For each Beat Per Minute, there should then be a corresponding setting on this clutch. So it is simply a reference, like 90 BPM=6 and 140BPM=3, or something like that. Hopefully, the experts will correct me if I am wrong. This is just my understanding.
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  2.  @opendstudio7141  Yes on the correction for each numbered increment. 100 ms per numbered increment. Yet I am unsure of the maximum correction. Suppose we turn the clutch one full turn. That provides zero correction, but does advance the music by one turn. There is a subtle relationship here which is hard to wrap my head around. I think the maximum correction is 1/2 turn in either direction, for a +/- delta seconds from nominal. So +/- 0.300 seconds. At least, that is my understanding so far. [BTW the abbreviation for milliseconds is ms, not m/s. The m is a prefix for the unit, while the s is the unit. The "/" is an abbreviation for "per". Therefore, milli per second (m/s) is not a valid unit. This is meant in a friendly way, not in a grammar nazi sense. I hope you take it that way.]
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