132 BPM
132 beats per minute is one beat every 454.55 ms. Below: bar and phrase lengths, delay and reverb times, LFO rates, the genres that use this tempo, and the pitch change needed to mix in from nearby tempos. Start the metronome or tap along to a track to check it is really 132.
Updated 2026-10-17
132 BPM
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Beat, bar and phrase lengths at 132 BPM
At 132 BPM one beat lasts 454.55 ms and a 4/4 bar lasts 1.818 s. The beat is not a whole number of milliseconds, so round to the nearest 0.1 ms when you type times in by hand, or use your plugin's tempo sync. That is 2.2 beats per second, or 33 bars of 4/4 per minute.
Dance tracks are usually arranged in 8-, 16- and 32-bar phrases. At 132 BPM a 16-bar phrase takes 29.09 s and a 32-bar intro or outro takes 58.18 s. That is 2.91 s shorter than the same 16 bars at 120 BPM. A six-minute track at this tempo contains about 198 bars.
| Length | Time | Milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 beat | 0.455 s | 454.55 ms |
| 1 bar (4 beats) | 1.818 s | 1818.18 ms |
| 4 bars | 7.273 s | 7272.73 ms |
| 8 bars | 14.55 s | 14545.45 ms |
| 16 bars | 29.09 s | 29090.91 ms |
| 32 bars | 58.18 s | 58181.82 ms |
| 64 bars | 1:56.4 min | 116363.64 ms |
Delay times at 132 BPM
Straight values follow the beat; dotted values are 1.5 times as long and triplets are two-thirds as long. At 132 BPM the popular dotted-eighth delay is 340.91 ms and a quarter-note slapback is 454.55 ms. The Hz column is the matching rate for an LFO, tremolo or auto-pan synced to the straight note.
| Note | Straight | Dotted | Triplet | Rate (straight) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 (one 4/4 bar) | 1818.18 ms | 2727.27 ms | 1212.12 ms | 0.55 Hz |
| 1/2 | 909.09 ms | 1363.64 ms | 606.06 ms | 1.1 Hz |
| 1/4 (one beat) | 454.55 ms | 681.82 ms | 303.03 ms | 2.2 Hz |
| 1/8 | 227.27 ms | 340.91 ms | 151.52 ms | 4.4 Hz |
| 1/16 | 113.64 ms | 170.45 ms | 75.76 ms | 8.8 Hz |
| 1/32 | 56.82 ms | 85.23 ms | 37.88 ms | 17.6 Hz |
Reverb times at 132 BPM
A common way to keep a reverb in time is to tie its pre-delay to a short note value and let the tail fade within a longer one. At 132 BPM a 1/64-note pre-delay is 28.41 ms and a 1/32-note pre-delay is 56.82 ms.
The decay control on most reverbs is RT60, the time it takes the tail to fall by 60 dB, so the audible tail ends earlier than the number shown. Treat these values as starting points and adjust by ear.
| Reverb character | Pre-delay | Decay (RT60) |
|---|---|---|
| Tight room on drums | 28.41 ms | 454.55 ms |
| Medium plate on vocals | 56.82 ms | 909.09 ms |
| Large hall or pad wash | 56.82 ms | 1818.18 ms |
| Ambient tail over two bars | 113.64 ms | 3636.36 ms |
Genres at 132 BPM
132 BPM is squarely in the most common club and dance-music range. It sits in the middle of the UK garage/breakbeat range (125–140), near the low end of the techno range (125–150) and near the low end of the trance range (128–145).
Heard at half-time (66 BPM) it lines up with ambient/downtempo. A detector or a tag in your library may report either reading, so check by ear which one the drums suggest.
These ranges are common practice rather than rules: genre is decided by rhythm, sound and scene as much as by tempo, and plenty of tracks sit outside the usual numbers.
- UK garage/breakbeat: typically 125–140 BPM — shuffled and broken drums can make the count ambiguous.
- Techno: typically 125–150 BPM — from restrained 125 to fast, hard styles near 150.
- Trance: typically 128–145 BPM — a regular kick usually gives a clear pulse.
Mixing into 132 BPM
To bring a track at another tempo up or down to 132 BPM, move its pitch fader by the percentage below. Without key lock the key moves too, by the number of semitones shown; about 6 % is one semitone, so changes beyond that are where key lock (master tempo) starts to matter.
A ±8 % pitch fader on a track at 132 BPM reaches 121.4–142.6 BPM; a ±16 % range reaches 110.9–153.1 BPM.
| Track tempo | Pitch change to reach 132 | Key shift without key lock |
|---|---|---|
| 126 BPM | +4.76 % | +0.81 st |
| 128 BPM | +3.13 % | +0.53 st |
| 130 BPM | +1.54 % | +0.26 st |
| 131 BPM | +0.76 % | +0.13 st |
| 133 BPM | −0.75 % | −0.13 st |
| 134 BPM | −1.49 % | −0.26 st |
| 136 BPM | −2.94 % | −0.52 st |
| 138 BPM | −4.35 % | −0.77 st |
Half-time, double-time and nearby tempos
Half-time of 132 BPM is 66 BPM and double-time is 264 BPM.
264 BPM is outside the 60–200 range of these pages; the half/double-time converter works with any value.
Each 1 BPM step at this tempo changes the beat by about 3.42 ms, so neighbouring tempos are close enough to beatmatch with a small pitch move.
Frequently asked questions
- How many milliseconds is one beat at 132 BPM?
- One beat (a quarter note) at 132 BPM is 60,000 ÷ 132 = 454.55 ms. A 4/4 bar is four beats, 1818.18 ms.
- What is the dotted eighth delay time at 132 BPM?
- A dotted 1/8 delay at 132 BPM is 340.91 ms: an eighth note (227.27 ms) multiplied by 1.5. A straight quarter-note delay is 454.55 ms and a quarter-note triplet is 303.03 ms.
- What genre is 132 BPM?
- UK garage/breakbeat, techno and trance commonly use 132 BPM. Genre ranges overlap, so the drum pattern and sound decide the style more than the number does.
- What is 132 BPM in Hz?
- 132 BPM is 2.2 Hz when one cycle equals one beat. An LFO synced to one bar runs at 0.55 Hz, and one synced to sixteenth notes at 8.8 Hz.