178 BPM
178 beats per minute is one beat every 337.08 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 178.
Updated 2026-10-17
178 BPM
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Beat, bar and phrase lengths at 178 BPM
At 178 BPM one beat lasts 337.08 ms and a 4/4 bar lasts 1.348 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 2.967 beats per second, or 44.5 bars of 4/4 per minute.
Dance tracks are usually arranged in 8-, 16- and 32-bar phrases. At 178 BPM a 16-bar phrase takes 21.57 s and a 32-bar intro or outro takes 43.15 s. That is 10.43 s shorter than the same 16 bars at 120 BPM. A six-minute track at this tempo contains about 267 bars.
| Length | Time | Milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 beat | 0.337 s | 337.08 ms |
| 1 bar (4 beats) | 1.348 s | 1348.31 ms |
| 4 bars | 5.393 s | 5393.26 ms |
| 8 bars | 10.79 s | 10786.52 ms |
| 16 bars | 21.57 s | 21573.03 ms |
| 32 bars | 43.15 s | 43146.07 ms |
| 64 bars | 1:26.3 min | 86292.13 ms |
Delay times at 178 BPM
Straight values follow the beat; dotted values are 1.5 times as long and triplets are two-thirds as long. At 178 BPM the popular dotted-eighth delay is 252.81 ms and a quarter-note slapback is 337.08 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) | 1348.31 ms | 2022.47 ms | 898.88 ms | 0.742 Hz |
| 1/2 | 674.16 ms | 1011.24 ms | 449.44 ms | 1.483 Hz |
| 1/4 (one beat) | 337.08 ms | 505.62 ms | 224.72 ms | 2.967 Hz |
| 1/8 | 168.54 ms | 252.81 ms | 112.36 ms | 5.933 Hz |
| 1/16 | 84.27 ms | 126.4 ms | 56.18 ms | 11.867 Hz |
| 1/32 | 42.13 ms | 63.2 ms | 28.09 ms | 23.733 Hz |
Reverb times at 178 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 178 BPM a 1/64-note pre-delay is 21.07 ms and a 1/32-note pre-delay is 42.13 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 | 21.07 ms | 337.08 ms |
| Medium plate on vocals | 42.13 ms | 674.16 ms |
| Large hall or pad wash | 42.13 ms | 1348.31 ms |
| Ambient tail over two bars | 84.27 ms | 2696.63 ms |
Genres at 178 BPM
178 BPM is a fast tempo that is often felt at half-time. It sits near the upper end of the drum and bass range (160–180) and in the middle of the hardcore/gabber range (160–200).
Heard at half-time (89 BPM) it lines up with ambient/downtempo, hip-hop, reggae/dub and reggaeton/dembow. 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.
- Drum and bass: typically 160–180 BPM — modern releases mostly sit at 170–176; often felt at half-time.
- Hardcore/gabber: typically 160–200 BPM — speedcore and some gabber go well beyond 200.
Mixing into 178 BPM
To bring a track at another tempo up or down to 178 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 178 BPM reaches 163.8–192.2 BPM; a ±16 % range reaches 149.5–206.5 BPM.
| Track tempo | Pitch change to reach 178 | Key shift without key lock |
|---|---|---|
| 172 BPM | +3.49 % | +0.59 st |
| 174 BPM | +2.3 % | +0.39 st |
| 176 BPM | +1.14 % | +0.2 st |
| 177 BPM | +0.56 % | +0.1 st |
| 179 BPM | −0.56 % | −0.1 st |
| 180 BPM | −1.11 % | −0.19 st |
| 182 BPM | −2.2 % | −0.38 st |
| 184 BPM | −3.26 % | −0.57 st |
Half-time, double-time and nearby tempos
Half-time of 178 BPM is 89 BPM and double-time is 356 BPM.
356 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 1.88 ms, so neighbouring tempos are close enough to beatmatch with a small pitch move.
Frequently asked questions
- How many milliseconds is one beat at 178 BPM?
- One beat (a quarter note) at 178 BPM is 60,000 ÷ 178 = 337.08 ms. A 4/4 bar is four beats, 1348.31 ms.
- What is the dotted eighth delay time at 178 BPM?
- A dotted 1/8 delay at 178 BPM is 252.81 ms: an eighth note (168.54 ms) multiplied by 1.5. A straight quarter-note delay is 337.08 ms and a quarter-note triplet is 224.72 ms.
- What genre is 178 BPM?
- Drum and bass and hardcore/gabber commonly use 178 BPM. Genre ranges overlap, so the drum pattern and sound decide the style more than the number does.
- What is 178 BPM in Hz?
- 178 BPM is 2.9667 Hz when one cycle equals one beat. An LFO synced to one bar runs at 0.7417 Hz, and one synced to sixteenth notes at 11.867 Hz.