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}
}