Audio delay calculator

Give the tempo and the time signature

Express the length of the delay as fractions of a bar

Musical tempo

Beats per minute
98BPM
Beats per bar
3 beats
Delay fraction
7/16 bar

Converted to seconds

Length of 1 beat
0.612 sec
1.633 Hz
Length of 1 bar
1.837 sec
0.544 Hz
Delay length
0.804 sec
1.244 Hz

Repeated delays

A repeated delay syncs with the beat after 16 delays = 7 bars

1 reps
7/16
803.6 ms
2 reps
7/8
1607.1 ms
3 reps
21/16
2.411 sec
4 reps
7/4
3.214 sec
5 reps
35/16
4.018 sec
6 reps
21/8
4.821 sec
7 reps
49/16
5.625 sec
8 reps
7/2
6.429 sec
9 reps
63/16
7.232 sec
10 reps
35/8
8.036 sec
11 reps
77/16
8.839 sec
12 reps
21/4
9.643 sec
13 reps
91/16
10.446 sec
14 reps
49/8
11.25 sec
15 reps
105/16
12.053 sec
16 reps
7
12.857 sec

Visualized

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How to use this page

If you have a 135 BPM song, and you want a phase modulation of 4 beats (1 bar): that is 1777.6 ms
If you have a 128 BPM song, and you want an audio delay of 2/3 of a beat: this is 312.5 ms

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