Delay Calculator
Delay and reverb times locked to your tempo. The dotted 1/8 is the classic trance lead delay.
Tap the button in time with your track. Four taps or more gives a steady reading.
Delay times
Milliseconds, with the matching LFO rate in Hz. Click a value to copy it.| Note | Straight | Dotted | Triplet |
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Reverb starting points
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Sounds to load your MIDI into
Supersaw Essentials: 25 free trance presets for Vital, the free synth. Leads, plucks, pads and gated stabs, voiced for every tool on this site.
How tempo-synced delay works
One beat lasts 60,000 ÷ BPM milliseconds. At 138 BPM that's about 434.8 ms for a quarter note. Halve it for an eighth (217.4 ms), and multiply by 1.5 for a dotted note: a dotted eighth at 138 BPM is 326.1 ms.
Dotted 1/8 on leads gives the rolling, galloping echo that fills the gaps in a trance melody. Straight 1/4 or 1/8 on plucks keeps things tight. Triplets add a swung, off-grid feel that works well on breakdown pads.
The Hz column is the same timing as a frequency, useful for setting an LFO or tremolo to move in time without a sync button.