[linux-audio-user] various questions (long)

[luis jure]

el Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:01:32 +0400
Guy Daniel CLOTILDE <guy.clotilde at wanadoo.fr> escribió:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:38:32 +0000
> Tim Hall <tim at glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote / a écrit:
> 
> > each beat lasts 60/bpm seconds,
> 
> I don't understand. Is it 60 bpm/s ?
> 


no, it's 60/bpm

you know bpm means "beats per minute", so the duration of a beat is:

60   (seconds in a minute)
---
bpm  (number of beats in a minute)

at a metronome marking of 60, each beats is a second long (60/60).
the higher the mm, the shorter each beat: for mm=120 each beat is 0.5
seconds (60/120); for lower mm, beats are longer, for mm=40 each beat is
1.5 seconds (60/40)