Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Micro BR - Adjusting Delay Timing

Most of the M-BR presets for Delay are pretty long. Maybe this will help: It will usually sound better if you adjust the Delay time to repeat in sync with the Beats Per Minute of the song. You can get to the screen for changing the preset repeat time of the Delay by pressing: Effects|EDT|cursor:►|DLY|cursor:►|cursor:►

Then, get out a calculator.
60,000 (milliseconds per minute) divided by your tempo (Beats per Minute) equals the quarter note value for each repeat. So, if the tempo of your song is 110 BPM then:
60,000/110 = 545ms.

However, an echo on each quarter note beat will be too long of a delay for most songs. So, divide it by 2 to get the eighth note value and see how that sounds:
545ms /2 = 272ms
Still too long? Divide by 2 again and get the sixteenth note value
272ms /2 = 136ms.

Seems like a eighth or sixteenth note delay is usually the one that we’re looking for so I usually start out with 60,000/BPM/4 (15000/BPM) to save a step.

From "hooper"/microredorders.org/forum

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