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

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Robertson2007,
 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.},
 address = {New York City, NY, United States},
 author = {Robertson, Andrew and Plumbley, Mark D.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1177231},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Accompaniment, Performance },
 pages = {234--237},
 title = {B-Keeper : A Beat-Tracker for Live Performance},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2007/nime2007_234.pdf},
 year = {2007}
}