[freedmand]

If you play ten note chords — one for each finger — in quick succession, that can rack up a lot of inserts in short time period (say, medium-worst case, 100Hz, for playing a chord like that five times per second, counting both “on” and “off” events).

It’s also worth taking into consideration damper pedal velocity changes. When you go from “off” (velocity 0) to fully “on” and depressed (velocity 127), a lot of intermediate values will get fired off at high frequency.

Ultimately though you are right; it’s not enough frequency of information to overload SQLite (or a file system), probably by several orders of magnitude.

[account42]

A 1/100th of a second is still an eternity for a modern computer. It's easy to forget just how insanely fast computers are when user-facing software still lags all the time. You really do need to go out of your way to make performance an issue here (or stack too many abstractions).