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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.