Read delay times for a tempo

The Delay Calculator turns the current tempo into delay times in milliseconds for every common note value, so a delay or a reverb pre-delay sits in the groove instead of fighting it.

Open it

On the Tapper tab, the Delay Calculator panel folds out at the bottom (the ▾ toggle). It follows whatever tempo the big number shows — tapped, typed, recalled from Previous BPMs or loaded from a setlist song — and updates the moment the tempo changes.

The rows

One row per note value, each with its symbol:

The quarter note is 60000 ÷ BPM milliseconds; every other row is that value times the factor above. At 120 BPM a quarter note is 500 ms, a dotted eighth 375 ms, a triplet quarter 333.3 ms.

The columns

• Base — the delay time for that note value.
• ÷ 4 and ÷ 8 — the same value divided by four and eight. Use them for reverb pre-delays, slap-backs and the fine subdivisions that a single-repeat delay wants.

Using the numbers

• Rhythmic delay — dial the Base value of the note you want to hear (dotted eighth is the classic).
• Reverb pre-delay — a ÷ 8 or ÷ 4 value of the sixteenth or eighth keeps the reverb out of the way of the transient.
• Tempo-synced FX without host sync — type the tempo into the BPM field and read the table; nothing needs to be connected.