Technology
Delay Calculator for Mac OS X
Back in 2002 when I was working for Steve Vai, he was still making the transition from OS 9 to OS X. Confound Digidesign and their ridiculously slow software development! But, I digress…. Steve was using an ancient desk accessory to calculate his digital delay timings. I have no idea how this thing was still running for him in OS 9. Having a background in computer science, I thought this might be a good reason to delve a little bit into programming for OS X.
What resulted is my simple OS X application, Delay Calculator.app.
Delay Calculator is a simple application that requires one input: a tempo in beats per minute.
Once you enter the tempo, click “Calculate” and you get lots of different digital delay timings (measured in milliseconds) to help you get the sound you want for a song.
Umm… there’s really nothing else to say.
Oh yeah, it’s a cocoa application, so it should run in OS X 10.2 or higher. And no, I have no plans to make this a universal binary because I lost the source and am too lazy to rewrite the app. After all, it’d take at LEAST 15 minutes.