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I see comments!! It only took a week! XD

So... sounds like the point didn't come across properly, and there is some confusion. I understand how time signatures work, so that's fine. And I talked about this with Bogdan, and he said "yeah pretty much; note lengths are based on the length of a 4/4 bar for historical reasons," instead of based on the length of a beat. So dreams' music snap readout is based on the fraction of a 4/4 bar, and not the fraction of a beat.

When you want to do triplets, notes that are 1/3 of a beat in length, you don't use 1/3; you use 1/12. Because it's 1/12 of a 4/4 bar. Music note-lengths work that way because history, not because it's easy to understand.

So the reason the music note snap in Dreams is a fraction of a 4/4 bar was as I guessed: it's just arbitrary and "how things are done in music."

The post was a request for the notation to be based on the length of a beat, or at least have a setting for it. This would make the fractions easier to understand for non-musically-trained people like myself to use--which is one of the goals of Dreams in the first place, to make it easier for newcomers to get started. I think such an option sounds reasonable.

To avoid confusion for musicians watching a stream of Dreams or something, they could say "per beat" next to the fraction while that setting is on or something.