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Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:16 am

I posted a BPM (Beats Per Minute) decimal table online for quick reference. Quite handy if you don't want to fiddle with your calculator every time you need to determine a BPM. It can be found at the following link: http://www.bpmtable.com

No_Use · Post by **No_Use** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:52 am

...or get the freeware tool Wizcalc which can do the same (in ms) and some other usefull calculation

http://www.bjoernbojahr.de/files/wizcalc.zip

MaxVdub · Post by **MaxVdub** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:28 am

Why did you post so many of these threads? Wow.

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:11 am

BPM = 60/TimeOfOneBeat

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:58 am

MaxVdub wrote:Why did you post so many of these threads? Wow.

It's going to look a bit like spam indeed...
And maybe an online musical calculator would be more useful than just a lookup-table.

Xnah · Post by **Xnah** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:03 am

Ambisphere wrote:I posted a BPM (Beats Per Minute) decimal table online for quick reference. Quite handy if you don't want to fiddle with your calculator every time you need to determine a BPM. It can be found at the following link: http://www.bpmtable.com

I don't understand the table. What do the numbers mean (after the 1st column)? Minutes? milliseconds per beat?

core · Post by **core** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:19 am

If it's a table to determine bpm, it seems to be the wrong way around. If I don't know the bpm, why is it in the first column like I already know where to look?
It would be easier if you just use a form/script where one can put in the time in ms for a single beat and have it show you the bpm.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:21 am

Using a calculator takes more time than referring to a table...why I made it.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:30 am

Xnah, if you read the the note above the table it plainly states that the beats are rounded-up to thousands of a second. That's how the decimal system works. The first column is 1 beat, the 2nd 4 beats and the 3rd 8 beats. A 140 BPM Trance track for example, would round-up to 0.428.5 per beat (1 beat).

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:36 am

Core, say you download a drumloop online and you want to determine the BPM, that is, check to see that it's accurate...Simply open it in your audio editor, set the time line to decimal, move the cursor to the end of the drumloop waveform to determine it's length and then check it with the table.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:38 am

Sorry, core. Forgot to mention that it must be no longer than an eight count drumloop.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:42 am

BertKoor, I posted several threads throughout the day as people are always coming and going.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:47 am

No_Use, using a calculator takes more time than simply refering to a table. Again, that's why I made it. I got tired of opening my calculator every time I needed to determine a BPM. Then I figured, why not share it. Anyway, if you don't want to use it, that's your perrogative.

Ambisphere · Post by **Ambisphere** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:57 am

Actually core, I mispoke before. It doesn't matter how long the drumloop, arp, seq, is. If it's longer than eight counts, you just count up to the end of the 1st, 4th or 8th beat and mark it there, then refer to the table.

core · Post by **core** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:59 am

I see, I guess it's useful for printing. I'm so computer oriented that I usually forget people actually print stuff

BPM Reference Table Online