Music Production Math: Tempo, Delay Times, Pitch, Sample Rates, Gain & Loudness
Turn BPM into delay times, notes into frequencies and decibels into gain changes, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you work through the numbers of a fictional studio producing a six-song EP. You turn BPM into milliseconds and build a delay chart with dotted and triplet values, convert an arrangement from bars into m:ss and plan a radio edit in 8-bar phrases. You calculate equal-temperament frequencies with POWER, note names with INDEX and MOD and tuning offsets in cents with LOG, size sessions from sample rate and bit depth, convert dBFS to linear amplitude and sum tracks on a bus, compare masters with fictional loudness targets using IFS, fit samples to the project tempo and schedule the release with WORKDAY.
Lessons
- The Tempo Grid: Milliseconds per Beat, Note Values, Dotted and Triplet Delay Times Pro
- Song Structure: Sections in Bars, Song Length in m:ss, Phrases and Tempo Changes Pro
- Pitch by Formula: Note Frequencies, Note Names, Cents and the Nearest Note Pro
- Sample Rate & Bit Depth: MB per Minute, Session Size, the Nyquist Limit and Card Time Pro
- Gain Staging: dBFS and Linear Amplitude, Gain Changes and Summing Tracks on a Bus Pro
- Loudness Targets: LUFS, Normalisation Gain, True-Peak Headroom and IFS Flags Pro
- Time-Stretch & Pitch-Shift: Tempo Ratios, New Lengths and Semitones with LOG Pro
- The Release Planner: Stage Budgets, Studio Days, a WORKDAY Schedule and an Hours Chart Pro