Quote Originally Posted by rounser
From what I gather, triplets is fitting three equidistant notes in the space you'd normally fit two if it was quantised.
It means instead of dividing up a bar into 16th's, it is divided into 12th's - i.e. each beat is divided into 3 segments rather than 4.

Think "Traktion Action" by Luke Slater, "Bodyrock" by Andy C & Shimon, and "6-8 War" by Leftfield.