The difference between being off BEAT and off SYNC

BemaniFreak488

Alright, i've seen wayyyyyyyyy too many posts where people say that songs are "offbeat", it's impppppppossible for the machine to be offbeat, because it's not comparing to anything else, but, a PERSON can be offbeat, because he/she maybe not be correctly dancing/playing the the rhythm.

BUT when arrows are not lined up correctly to the beat it is called being "offsync", not offbeat.

Feel free to just delete this and stick it in the FaQ or the dictionary or something...I just think it needs to be noticed.

And yes, I'm picky, so shoot me.

D8TheSkip · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:54 am Post subject: Interesting...

D8 here.. wow it's been while that I've been posting here but I'm here. ^.^; Anyway I think that makes some kind of sense. Being 'Off/on beat' is more along the lines of instincts of a person, knowing the timming of the 'beats' of music. While 'sync' is more along the lines of, Keeping track, keeping in formation. Just like the song SYNC in the DDR Extreme (On light) The song had an equal amount of formations of steps, such as... Left down up right up down left *Repeat* and then switching backwards or to a new formation. Knowing how to keep in formation and onbeat is a combonation of keeping up and staying good in DDR.

So basically keeping in formation is more learning the steps (possibly time) and going along with it than rather being onbeat is more listening to the music and knowing the timming of the consatnt 'beat' of the song.
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Offbeat isn't anything to do with synching on a machine. Take... Any7 K.O.G.3 (probably got that wrong) mix, where the song goes *beat*GO*beat*GO*beat*GO etc. The "GO"'s are offbeat, technically called Syncopation. In the song, if there is an arrow on each "GO" then the stepping is synopated.

Offsync is a completely different story, when either the BPM or GAP of a stepfile (I'm using SM as an example) are incorrect.
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