Tempo Tracking with a Single Oscillator

I describe a simple on-line tempo tracker, based on phase and period locking a single oscillator to performance event timings. The tracker parameters are optimized on a corpus of solo piano performances by twelve musicians. The tracker is then tested on a second corpus of performances, played by the same twelve musicians. The performance of this tracker is compared to previously published results for a tempo tracker based on combining a tempogram and Kalman filter.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: Bryan Pardo
• Keywords: ISMIR 2004, On-line Tempo Tracker, Tempo Tracker, Tracker Parameters