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[radian]

This part of the manual is pretty confusingly phrased, using both meanings of sample in the same bit. Anyway, as far as this part goes:

Tips:    Resampling a loop to exactly (0x10000=) 65536 bytes gives you the highest possible level of control over the sample.

How many samples or milliseconds does this translate to? I assume it different in 8 or 16 bit samples?

[raina]

Feel free to suggest a clarification, it's a little hard to stay away from the word.

Byte is a sample and it doesn't translate to milliseconds because that would depend on the playback speed. MilkyTracker makes the conversion (in display) so that there's no difference to the user between 8 and 16-bit samples.

[radian]

So timestretching a 1 bar drumbeat .wav to a multiple of 65536 samples long makes 9 80 exactly halfway through the bar?

[raina]

Well, not a multiple (unless you count 16-bit), but exactly 65536 bytes. But yes, 980 offsets the playback by 32768 (0x8000) samples, which is exactly half of 65536.