musical formulae

[Tom-R]

remember reading somewhere about a formula for setting delays and stuff like that obviously involving the bpm, hope it isnt just bpm/2 cos then this thread just looks really stupid. anyone know what i'm talking about???? the amount of knowledge some people on music boards have on production is sometimes just sickening, i have no idea about the exact frequency settings people go on about,i just fiddle around till it sounds right.

[Mike]

Do you need to know what you should set your delay
time to?.. like a BPM ratio thing?

What BPM are you working at?

[The M in MD]

A mate told me about a formula for time stretching samples. It was (I think) 270/bpm of the tune you're making. That'll give you the length of the note apparently.

Disclaimer - he told me that AGES ago and I don't know any of the technical terms around music production (very few at least). It could well be utter bollocks what I've just written or not what you're after at all, but try it and if it works - good - if not - my bad, just ignore me!

[DJ-DS]

i jsut fuck about with shit till it sounds right i have no idea about ratio,s etc do everything by ear trial and error
its good we have the net though to be able to look up things when u become stuck and need a bit of help,....the grid on doa is a good place for production hints/tips dnb wise

[TIMEBOMB]

http://mp3.deepsound.net/eng/samples_calculs.php

this should do what you want but you can do it yourself

at 174 bpm:

60 seconds / 174 = 0.3448

so each crotchet beat lasts 0.3448 seconds or 345 ms

if you wat 1/16 notes for a delay then divied by 4 = 0.0862 or 86 ms

think thats right, hope it helps

[Tom-R]

sounds like what i was on about, cheers. gotta write this down.

[Dexter1210]

The formula for delay times is........

60000 divided by the Bpm = time in milliseconds

E.G.

if you are working at 137 bpm then 60000 divided by 137 is 437

if you set the delay time at 437 it will be in sync with the track you are workin on.
:)

[djrene]

Alternatively... if you're crap at maths... just go to the start of your track, position the cursor / marker or whatever 1 beat away from the start (if you want your delay to come at every beat) ... make a note of the time (ie: on your transport bar it should say how many seconds into the track you are)... and then set that at your delay time.

[daze]

theres loads of shareware delay time workerouter apps.





why theres one right here (http://arc.badgerdotcom.co.uk/downloads-cat17.html) :agree:

[Tom-R]

1 more question. when you're using something like junox and you can set the speed at which the sound modulates (think its in htz or something) how do you work out the correct speed. this question prob doesnt make sense due to my lack of technical jargon. ermmmmm...... lets say you're phasing something, you can change the speed its phases- is there a formula to help set the speed???

[mrwilson]

dont most fx sync to the bpm these days?

gone are the wanky days of calculators.

[DJ-DS]

yeah i think most new vsti synths sync to the bpm of the track

[Tom-R]

dont think logic's own phaser does, at least not on 4.8. kept on using a calculator to work out for mda dubdelay but then realised logics tape delay did it all 4 u.:jumpup:

[Codek]

Originally posted by loz
tape delay is wicked.

:gay:

[Mike]

Originally posted by Codek
:gay:

:conf:

[loz]

i think you've lost it matt.


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