Music & audio
Swing timing calculator
Split a pair of eighth notes into a chosen long-short timing ratio.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
The two eighth notes together occupy one quarter-note duration. First duration = quarter duration × swing percentage; second duration is the remainder. A 50% share is straight and about 66.67% is a 2:1 triplet-like split. This defines timing mathematically; DAW swing controls can use different conventions.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Quarter-note tempo (BPM)
- 120
- First note’s share of the pair (%)
- 66.6666666667
Example result
- First eighth-note duration
- 333.333333333 ms
- Second eighth-note duration
- 166.666666667 ms
- Long : short ratio
- 2 : 1
- Whole pair duration
- 500 ms