200 BPM
200 beats per minute is one beat every 300 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 200.
Updated 2026-10-17
200 BPM
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Beat, bar and phrase lengths at 200 BPM
At 200 BPM one beat lasts 300 ms and a 4/4 bar lasts 1.2 s. That beat is a whole number of milliseconds, so delay and gate times can be typed in exactly, without rounding. That is 3.333 beats per second, or 50 bars of 4/4 per minute.
Dance tracks are usually arranged in 8-, 16- and 32-bar phrases. At 200 BPM a 16-bar phrase takes 19.2 s and a 32-bar intro or outro takes 38.4 s. That is 12.8 s shorter than the same 16 bars at 120 BPM. A six-minute track at this tempo contains about 300 bars.
| Length | Time | Milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 beat | 0.3 s | 300 ms |
| 1 bar (4 beats) | 1.2 s | 1200 ms |
| 4 bars | 4.8 s | 4800 ms |
| 8 bars | 9.6 s | 9600 ms |
| 16 bars | 19.2 s | 19200 ms |
| 32 bars | 38.4 s | 38400 ms |
| 64 bars | 1:16.8 min | 76800 ms |
Delay times at 200 BPM
Straight values follow the beat; dotted values are 1.5 times as long and triplets are two-thirds as long. At 200 BPM the popular dotted-eighth delay is 225 ms and a quarter-note slapback is 300 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) | 1200 ms | 1800 ms | 800 ms | 0.833 Hz |
| 1/2 | 600 ms | 900 ms | 400 ms | 1.667 Hz |
| 1/4 (one beat) | 300 ms | 450 ms | 200 ms | 3.333 Hz |
| 1/8 | 150 ms | 225 ms | 100 ms | 6.667 Hz |
| 1/16 | 75 ms | 112.5 ms | 50 ms | 13.333 Hz |
| 1/32 | 37.5 ms | 56.25 ms | 25 ms | 26.667 Hz |
Reverb times at 200 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 200 BPM a 1/64-note pre-delay is 18.75 ms and a 1/32-note pre-delay is 37.5 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 | 18.75 ms | 300 ms |
| Medium plate on vocals | 37.5 ms | 600 ms |
| Large hall or pad wash | 37.5 ms | 1200 ms |
| Ambient tail over two bars | 75 ms | 2400 ms |
Genres at 200 BPM
200 BPM is a very fast tempo, usually heard at half-time unless the style is hardcore. It sits at the top of the hardcore/gabber range (160–200).
Heard at half-time (100 BPM) it lines up with ambient/downtempo, hip-hop, reggae/dub, reggaeton/dembow and pop. 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.
- Hardcore/gabber: typically 160–200 BPM — speedcore and some gabber go well beyond 200.
Mixing into 200 BPM
To bring a track at another tempo up or down to 200 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 200 BPM reaches 184–216 BPM; a ±16 % range reaches 168–232 BPM.
| Track tempo | Pitch change to reach 200 | Key shift without key lock |
|---|---|---|
| 194 BPM | +3.09 % | +0.53 st |
| 196 BPM | +2.04 % | +0.35 st |
| 198 BPM | +1.01 % | +0.17 st |
| 199 BPM | +0.5 % | +0.09 st |
| 201 BPM | −0.5 % | −0.09 st |
| 202 BPM | −0.99 % | −0.17 st |
| 204 BPM | −1.96 % | −0.34 st |
| 206 BPM | −2.91 % | −0.51 st |
Half-time, double-time and nearby tempos
Half-time of 200 BPM is 100 BPM and double-time is 400 BPM.
400 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 1.49 ms, so neighbouring tempos are close enough to beatmatch with a small pitch move.
Frequently asked questions
- How many milliseconds is one beat at 200 BPM?
- One beat (a quarter note) at 200 BPM is 60,000 ÷ 200 = 300 ms. A 4/4 bar is four beats, 1200 ms.
- What is the dotted eighth delay time at 200 BPM?
- A dotted 1/8 delay at 200 BPM is 225 ms: an eighth note (150 ms) multiplied by 1.5. A straight quarter-note delay is 300 ms and a quarter-note triplet is 200 ms.
- What genre is 200 BPM?
- Hardcore/gabber commonly uses 200 BPM. Genre ranges overlap, so the drum pattern and sound decide the style more than the number does.
- What is 200 BPM in Hz?
- 200 BPM is 3.3333 Hz when one cycle equals one beat. An LFO synced to one bar runs at 0.8333 Hz, and one synced to sixteenth notes at 13.333 Hz.