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59.1Microtiming is not displacement
This distinction is fundamental.
Suppose a chord belongs on:
2&
In Workshop 48-style displacement, you might deliberately move it to:
3
or:
3e
That changes its rhythmic location.
In microtiming:
it is still 2&.
But the attack may lean ever so slightly behind the reference pulse.
That is a completely different phenomenon.