Authoring Playable Music Systems Without an Audio Middleware

Clay Ewing

doi:10.1145/3799818.3812071

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Authoring Playable Music Systems Without an Audio Middleware

Clay Ewing

Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks, pp.1-2

ACM Conferences

SIGGRAPH Talks '26: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks

2026-07-19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3799818.3812071

Abstract

Applied computing -- Computer games

Applied computing -- Sound and music computing

Computer systems organization -- Real-time systems

This talk presents Astral Planes, a production case study of building a playable music system without audio middleware. It examines a Unity-native MIDI architecture where drum timing, instrument tracks, harmonic retuning, and player-authored notes operate as shared runtime state under real-time performance constraints.

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Title: Authoring Playable Music Systems Without an Audio Middleware
Creators: Clay Ewing - University of Miami
Contributors: Chris Redmann (Editor)
Veronica Orvalho (Editor)
Publication Details: Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks, pp.1-2
Conference: SIGGRAPH Talks '26: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks
Series: ACM Conferences
Publisher: ACM
Number of pages: 2
Academic Unit: CIM - INTERACTIVE MEDIA Department; School of Communication; School of Communication - Cinema & Interactive Media
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Record Identifier: 991033137922702976