Introduction

Matchmaker is a Python library for real-time music alignment.

Music alignment is a fundamental MIR task, and real-time music alignment is a necessary component of many interactive applications (e.g., automatic accompaniment systems, automatic page turning).

Unlike offline alignment methods, for which state-of-the-art implementations are publicly available, real-time (online) methods have no standard implementation, forcing researchers and developers to build them from scratch for their projects.

We aim to provide efficient reference implementations of score followers for use in real-time applications which can be easily integrated into existing projects.

The full documentation for matchmaker is available online at readthedocs.org.