Computer Music Journal
Problems and prospects for intimate musical control of computers
NIME '01 Proceedings of the 2001 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
A survey of real-time MIDI performance
NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
A survey of real-time MIDI performance
NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Children of Grainger: leather instruments for Free Music
NIME '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Towards high-quality I/O virtualization
SYSTOR '09 Proceedings of SYSTOR 2009: The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference
A zero-vision music recording paradigm for visually impaired people
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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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.