Delay Time Calculator

[Lee]

I discovered a freeware delay calculator for mac called music math V4, which comes with some extra useful features.
http://www.macmusic.org/news/view.php/lang/en/id/4980/
If anyone knows of a better one could you please post a reply?

[The Tasmanian]

Your Ears

[rick]

Dont listen to him .... he moved to Tasmania on purpose

.. it looks good to me - my ears were never as good at maths as those things
most plug ins do the maths automatically or via tempo tap nowadays anyway

I can remember clearly when i got my first "bpm /delay " chart
it seemed like the greatest cheat sheet on the planet to us , i paid like 20 bucks or something to laminate it !

the great thing about working delay times in fractions of the beat by using charts or calculators is you can build sonically near invisable delays that are very emotionally gratifying - subtle movements that dont distract etc etc

I have to own up to have been dusting off and adding to my collection of old school delays of late
i have lots

[The Tasmanian]

Yeah - Tasmania is so far behind that we have an advantage when it comes to delays !
Rick I used to have a printout of these delay charts, but eventually stopped using them - doing it all by feel, maybe its time to resurrect them again - nothing worse than getting too stuck on one particular way of working. I remember it being so much faster than the blindfold method, but at the time I felt I was always in predictable territory so I threw the delay sheet away.
I would have thought someone would have made a great iphone app by now?

[rick]

Yeah I understand chris
Sometimes I reckon it's a good idea to leave breadcrumbs out for those that might follow
and just in case you've lost your way
already across the land there are
six guys scratching there heads saying
"what is this ancient delay chart those guys are muttering about "
rumour has it the cla left the one we all had behind in the
eighties at 301
I went to one of those mixing sessions
it was something very unlike what most of us were doing
at the time

[Lee]

Thanks for the different perspectives regarding delay. I hope the calculator is useful for someone.

[no-fi]

I would have thought someone would have made a great iphone app by now?

there's two free android apps that do delay time calculation.