Analogue-sequencer

>>As with many functions of the human brain, the perception of timing
of auditory events is not a simple process.
As Duncan mentioned, the brain uses time difference between left and
right, as well as the filtering effects of head shape, to extract
directional information from the same sound arriving at both ears -
but the brain must still perceive these events as the same sound
occuring at one moment.....[snip]
According to papers I've read, and tests I've done myself, time delays
between distinct acoustic events only start to become perceptable
around the 5ms mark (if you ignore effects such as comb-filtering).
 
If you're careful not to load up MIDI with too many simultaneous
events, and prioritise percussive sounds, you can avoid causing much
damage to feel.....[snip]
To come back to the point about timing resolution, if your timing
resolution is already finer than the brain's resolution of the
relative timing of sounds, what would be the advantage in increasing
the resolution further ?<<

don't those last two paragraphs contradict each other somewhat? :-)

midi isn't, so far as I am aware, especially optimized so that
percussion parts on channel 10 enjoy priority in the queue of events
to be processed. it should be, but midi just isn't that sophisticated. 

in fact, it hasn't even kept pace with the devices that use it.
(dave smith's own SCI samplers had a midi x2/x3 option so that a pair
of them could exchange samples at higher-than-standard rates using
sample dump protocol. this didn't spread, sadly). 
samplers & synth modules have much faster processors in them now. in
fact, the p3 has also got a faster chip than when I bought my first
one. but we're still stuck with 31.25 kbaud for all 16 channels, & as
much data as you can generate by way of controllers. let's leave sysex
operations out of this for now.
it just isn't fast enough to deliver nuance reliably. it just isn't.
& 1/4" tape at 15ips still out-runs cd or dat.

d.