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- Bar
- 1.85 s
- Beat
- 462 ms
- 16th note
- 115 ms
- 64 bars
- 1:58
What 130 BPM is for
Where melodic techno gets physical. The harmony still works, but the bass can be saturated and the builds shorten from 128 bars to 32. This is the tempo of the festival-sized end of the lane.
The arithmetic
At 130 BPM a beat lasts 462 ms and a four-beat bar lasts 1.85 seconds. From that, everything else follows:
Builds. 32 bars = 0:59. 64 bars = 1:58. 128 bars = 3:56. The choice of build length is effectively a choice of genre.
The arpeggio grid. A sixteenth note lands every 115 ms. Below about 90 ms a sequence stops reading as separate notes and becomes a timbre; above about 160 ms it stops fusing into one texture and becomes a riff.
Delay in time. A dotted eighth is 346 ms — the setting that produces a cross-rhythm against straight sixteenths rather than doubling them. A quarter-note delay is 462 ms.
Track length. A 6-minute record at this tempo is 195 bars; an 8-minute one is 260 bars. Arrangements are written in multiples of 8 and 16, so those are the numbers a producer is actually counting.
One step either way
132 is the practical ceiling for sustained chords. 126 is where the same record would feel spacious instead of urgent.
Where BALIMORE sits
The upper end of the BALIMORE melodic range, and where the peak-time material starts. Every track is written, produced and mixed by Steven Ran Cohen — the player at the top of this page is the catalog, free and with no sign-up.
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Questions people actually ask
How long is one bar at 130 BPM?
1.85 seconds. A beat lasts 462 ms and there are four beats to the bar.
How long is a 64-bar build at 130 BPM?
1:58. A 32-bar build is 0:59 and a 128-bar build is 3:56.
What genre is 130 BPM techno?
The hard edge of melodic. Where melodic techno gets physical.
What delay time should I use at 130 BPM?
A dotted eighth is 346 ms, which creates a cross-rhythm against straight sixteenths. A quarter note is 462 ms.