BPM & Pitch Shift Calculator

Calculate how a playback-speed change moves tempo and pitch together. Enter a target BPM to find the pitch shift, or enter a semitone change to find the resulting BPM.

BPM to Pitch Shift

Pitch Shift
Semitones
Cents
Playback speed
Speed change N/A

Pitch Shift to BPM

New Tempo
Resulting BPM
Playback speed
Speed change N/A

Speeding playback up raises tempo and pitch, while slowing it down lowers both. Often called varispeed, this assumes an exact playback-rate change and does not apply when software changes tempo without pitch or pitch without tempo.

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