Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] various questions (long)
From: Richard Seymour (nutate_AT_speakeasy.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 18:33:06 EET
luis jure wrote:
>el Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:01:32 +0400
>Guy Daniel CLOTILDE <guy.clotilde_AT_wanadoo.fr> escribió:
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>>On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:38:32 +0000
>>Tim Hall <tim_AT_glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote / a écrit:
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>>>each beat lasts 60/bpm seconds,
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>>I don't understand. Is it 60 bpm/s ?
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>no, it's 60/bpm
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>you know bpm means "beats per minute", so the duration of a beat is:
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>60 (seconds in a minute)
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>bpm (number of beats in a minute)
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>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)
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The way I look at the word "per" is to just turn it into a divisor sign,
so that a 60 bpm song would be:
60 beats
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minute
a 120 bpm song is twice as fast, and hence has twice as many beats in a
minute, etc.
-Rich
explanatory PS: 60/bpm would equal 60/beats/minute == 60 minutes/beat
which would actually be 1/60 beat/minute , read as one sixtieth of a
beat per minute. At least that's the way I would read it...
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