A survey of real-time MIDI performance Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5017328, abstract = {Although MIDI is often used for computer-based interactive music applications, its real-time performance is rarely quantified, despite concerns about whether it is capable of adequate performance in realistic settings. We extend existing proposals for MIDI performance benchmarking so they are useful in realistic interactive scenarios, including those with heavy MIDI traffic and CPU load. We have produced a cross-platform-freely-available testing suite that is easy to use, and have used it to survey the interactive performance of several commonly-used computer/MIDI setups. We describe the suite, summarize the results of our performance survey, and detail the benefits of this testing methodology.}, address = {Singapore, Singapore}, author = {Nelson, Mark J. and Thom, Belinda}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)}, citeulike-article-id = {5017328}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1085892}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mnelson/papers/Nelson_Thom_-_MIDI_Performance_-_NIME04.pdf}, keywords = {computer-music, discreteness, midi, representations}, location = {Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan}, pages = {35--38}, posted-at = {2009-07-08 22:17:24}, priority = {2}, publisher = {National University of Singapore}, title = {A survey of real-time MIDI performance}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1085892}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5017328 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5017328 N2 - Although MIDI is often used for computer-based interactive music applications, its real-time performance is rarely quantified, despite concerns about whether it is capable of adequate performance in realistic settings. We extend existing proposals for MIDI performance benchmarking so they are useful in realistic interactive scenarios, including those with heavy MIDI traffic and CPU load. We have produced a cross-platform-freely-available testing suite that is easy to use, and have used it to survey the interactive performance of several commonly-used computer/MIDI setups. We describe the suite, summarize the results of our performance survey, and detail the benefits of this testing methodology. CY - Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan AD - Singapore, Singapore EP - 38 TI - A survey of real-time MIDI performance PB - National University of Singapore T2 - Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on New interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) SP - 35 KW - computer-music KW - discreteness KW - midi KW - representations AU - Nelson, Mark AU - Thom, Belinda PY - 2004/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1085892 ER -