OFFBEAT Engine

The OFFBEAT Music-Game Engine is a new kind of middleware for music games and interactive music applications. It has been under development for 5 years.

The engine features unbelievable accurate and robust polyphinic audio recognition. It makes it possible to recognize or auto-transcribe audio into a high-level symbolic representation such as MIDI.

For example, it recognize acoustic or electric guitars, whether captured in a noisy environment with a microphone or a dedicated guitar interface. The tracking latency use proprietary prediction technology and is so low that it can be applied for real-time guitar synthesizers.

The engine is unique in its automatic inference of most interesting properties of musical notation such as: keys, chords, tempo, hand- and finger-movements.

OFFBEAT Engine powered products can import virtually any audio, video and tablature format and play audio/video streams in perfect sync with tablature. Slowdown and looping effects can be applied to all media.

It also host VST, RTAS or AudioUnit virtual effects or instruments and thus create studio-quality sound output.