4 episodes

Want to bring a new dimension to your live music performance? This series of videos introduces brand new digital music technology developed by Queen Mary, University of London's Live Music Lab which automatically synchronises your pre-recorded samples to the exact tempo of live music. This tutorial series shows how, using Harmonic Analysis, Beat Tracking and Colourmapping components, we can use LiveSync technology to do in a second what would otherwise take us mere humans hours to perfect. For more information, guides and downloads go to http://livemusiclab.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/.This Tutorial uses an audio sample from freesound:
String 1 Loop sample by ERH (http://www.freesound.org/people/ERH/)

Live Music Lab Queen Mary, University of London

- Arts

- JUL 27, 2012
- video
Beat Tracking using qm.btrack~

Beat Tracking using qm.btrack~

From the Queen Mary Live Music Lab. A guide on how beat tracking software is able to discern and match the tempo of a live guitar input.
- 3 min
- JUL 27, 2012
- video
Harmonic Analysis using qm.chroma~

Harmonic Analysis using qm.chroma~

From the Queen Mary Live Music Lab. A guide on how to use the Harmonic Analysis tool to best effect.
- 1 min
- JUL 27, 2012
- video
Mapping the Harmonic Content of Sounds to Video Colour

Mapping the Harmonic Content of Sounds to Video Colour

From the Queen Mary Live Music Lab. A guide on how software that maps particular notes to chosen colours and uses these settings to modify the colours in a video.
- 2 min
- JUL 27, 2012
- video
Synchronising Audio Files to Live Performances Using Beat Tracking

Synchronising Audio Files to Live Performances Using Beat Tracking

A demonstration of how the different software developed by Queen Mary Live Music Lab can be combined to track live music.
- 4 min