only thing I can imagine is;

typecasting of (int) whent wrong (in which case you can try converting it using: integer(varName); ).
or, noteTime[i] is not an integer, and thus you're trying to equal a integer value vs a floating value.

Keep in mind a frame only contains 16 updates, so timing it with total_secs might be a bit off at times...

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