Only posting as a direct reply and to close off any further back and forth. Again — I don’t do forums as a general rule, and it was only about being very clear about the facts as stated. Discussions about feel and timing can quickly descend into endless wormholes that go nowhere in the end.
Hardly anyone posts actual timing specifications for tools we use every day — MIDI interfaces and hardware drum machines and sequencers, which, at the end of the day, are what our creative endeavours are all built on. They are our tools. Just like the audio interfaces we use every day.
Nobody questions the validity of audio interface specifications — THD / Latency / Channel Crosstalk — these matter because they are real. How important they are is always personal, but that doesn’t make these specifications irrelevant. In a final mix, what’s more important — a slightly wider stereo image, slightly better signal-to-noise ratio, slightly more dynamic range?
Or the rhythmic feel of the whole track itself?
If those audio interface numbers matter — which they obviously do, for companies like RME, SSL, Apogee, Lynx, Antelope and Burl — then MIDI interfaces, drum machine and sequencer timing specifications should, in an ideal world, be held to the same standard.
