Easy way to get delay to match song tempo.

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Some of you guys may already know this, but I just discovered it.

Divide 60000 by the tempo (bpm). So, if the song tempo is 120bpm, set your delay to 60000/120, which equals 500ms. This gives you a quarter note delay. Once you have that number you can multply it by 2 or 1/2 or 2/3 or 4/3 to get different timing variations.

Pretty easy and works great.
 
Very cool.

Interesting thing is I haven't seen any delay pedals where you set the deal to an exact value, its just a knob :?
 
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bds9487":66e6e said:
Some of you guys may already know this, but I just discovered it.

Divide 60000 by the tempo (bpm). So, if the song tempo is 120bpm, set your delay to 60000/120, which equals 500ms. This gives you a quarter note delay. Once you have that number you can multply it by 2 or 1/2 or 2/3 or 4/3 to get different timing variations.

Pretty easy and works great.
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Oh praise God
i forgot that last year and ive been driveing myself crazy
trying to figure it out again
Now i can use that Hold in my delay
and get crakin on those mode's again Thank You Brother
:)
 
How would that work for a Ghost Note's
another one i forgot and havent used in years :?
that would get me to Bow Down :o
 
im sorry
i had to log back in could you make that Ghost Note Delay times with Digital Please
 
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gaijun":f968b said:
im sorry
i had to log back in could you make that Ghost Note Delay times with Digital Please
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I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain?
 
well things dont sound right with a digital delay
when trying to make use of ghost note's

like when im useing the digital delay
and i set it for long times
i find it is not on tempo when it comes back

so its quite differnt from anolog delays for some reason
May be because im useing an Echo Effects unit

but i serously doubt it is going to effect it that much
from a digital delay which i have a New Boss unit Pedal

it just sound the furthest thing from the Anolog Echo Unit
anyone know why ?
 
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gaijun":105f2 said:
well things dont sound right with a digital delay
when trying to make use of ghost note's

like when im useing the digital delay
and i set it for long times
i find it is not on tempo when it comes back

so its quite differnt from anolog delays for some reason
May be because im useing an Echo Effects unit

but i serously doubt it is going to effect it that much
from a digital delay which i have a New Boss unit Pedal

it just sound the furthest thing from the Anolog Echo Unit
anyone know why ?
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What do you mean by "ghost notes"?
 
well its very hard for me to explain but this is exactly what im after
listen to the Mp3

http://www.amnesta.net/edge_delay/bad.html
might help to read through it too

guess you could say By ghost notes
im refering to a repeteing image
but maybe somewhat distaint
 
You probably want to set it to dotted 8th notes. All this math just makes me enjoy delays with tap tempo more and more. :)

Pete
 
i belive it is set for the Doted 8 th note
but the Math work is not correct its like
120 bpm x 10,000
but that is lower then the timeing on the Mp3 example

im getting closer now so when i hit Paydirt ill let you know
you guys have helped me alot since ive been here

Greaest site on the Planet ;)
 
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stratotone":0adfa said:
You probably want to set it to dotted 8th notes. All this math just makes me enjoy delays with tap tempo more and more. :)

Pete
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thats what I was thinking
 
i know i have it stored somewhere in my papers
when i moved i just havent any clue which damn Box it is in
that sucks when i cant find it !

and going through 30 years worth of papers is NOT going to be fun :P
 
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