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B-Keeper : A Beat-Tracker for Live Performance

Andrew Robertson, and Mark D. Plumbley

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper describes the development of B-Keeper, a reatime beat tracking system implemented in Java and Max/MSP,which is capable of maintaining synchronisation between anelectronic sequencer and a drummer. This enables musicians to interact with electronic parts which are triggeredautomatically by the computer from performance information. We describe an implementation which functions withthe sequencer Ableton Live.

Citation

Andrew Robertson, and Mark D. Plumbley. 2007. B-Keeper : A Beat-Tracker for Live Performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1177231 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2007_Robertson,
author = {Robertson, Andrew and Plumbley, Mark D.},
title = {B-Keeper : A Beat-Tracker for Live Performance},
pages = {234--237},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2007},
address = {New York City, NY, United States},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177231},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_234.pdf},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Accompaniment, Performance },
abstract = {This paper describes the development of B-Keeper, a reatime beat tracking system implemented in Java and Max/MSP,which is capable of maintaining synchronisation between anelectronic sequencer and a drummer. This enables musicians to interact with electronic parts which are triggeredautomatically by the computer from performance information. We describe an implementation which functions withthe sequencer Ableton Live.}
}