BPM calculator — note lengths in milliseconds

Type a tempo and get the length of every note value — straight, dotted and triplet — in milliseconds, plus how long a number of bars lasts. For delay times, LFO rates and loop lengths.

8 bars at 120 BPM last 16.0 s

NoteStraightDottedTriplet
Whole2000 ms3000 ms1333.3 ms
Half1000 ms1500 ms666.7 ms
Quarter500 ms750 ms333.3 ms
Eighth250 ms375 ms166.7 ms
Sixteenth125 ms187.5 ms83.3 ms
Thirty-second62.5 ms93.8 ms41.7 ms

2.000 Hz — the quarter note as a frequency, for an LFO synced to the beat

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