I haven't been able to figure that one out myself. It gets a bit tricky to think about how this fits into the actual time signature position. If you open up your piano roll and mess around with that number, you will see more or less divisions in the individual beats of the measure depending on which way you go. What's different is the 'steps per beat'. This is how many numbers you're going to be counting ( 1,2,3,4.etc.). What we're looking at here is 'Beats per bar' for the first number. The time divisions in FL are a bit different. So if you had 3 quarter notes, you would have used up all the counts in that measure. and every one of those numbers would be representing a quarter note. it would be different in a time like 3/4 where you would count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1.

So if you had 7 8th notes in the measure, you would have used up all the counts in that measure. So if we were to take 7/8 as your example, it would be 7 beats in one measure (think when you're counting: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1,2,3.) and then an 8th note would be getting a full beat out of that measure. Top number is how many beats are in the measure.īottom number represents what note gets one beat out of the measure. Well something that I've learned pretty recently is that the time division doesn't line up 1:1 with actual time signatures.