Enter a tempo and get musical delay times in milliseconds. Use the table for synced delays, echoes, pre-delay, modulation, and rhythmic effects.
Whole notes through thirty-second notes, including dotted and triplet values.
Tap the tempo first, then copy delay times straight into your plugin.
Includes short timing references useful for reverb pre-delay and slapback effects.
Convert BPM into synced delay, dotted, triplet, and reverb times.
Workflow
Type the tempo or use tap tempo to estimate it.
Find the rhythmic value that matches the delay pattern you want.
Use the millisecond value in your delay, reverb, chorus, or modulation plugin.
A quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by BPM milliseconds. Other note values are simple multipliers of the quarter note: an eighth note is half, a dotted eighth is three quarters, and an eighth-note triplet is one third.
Tempo-synced delay helps echoes land musically around the vocal or lead instrument. Short values can create slapback or width, while dotted and triplet delays create rhythmic motion without manually nudging audio.
Quarter-note milliseconds equal 60,000 divided by BPM. Other values multiply that result.
At 120 BPM, a quarter note is 500 ms and an eighth note is 250 ms.
Yes. The calculator includes dotted half, dotted quarter, dotted eighth, and dotted sixteenth values.
Yes. Short note values such as sixteenth, thirty-second, or triplet values are useful starting points for musical pre-delay.
Keep quick pitch and tempo checks next to AI vocals, stem separation, voice conversion, and the Studio editor.
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