9.5 Testing, conclusion and future work

Testing and conclusion

We tested our system in a quiet study room (with little surrounding noise). Our virtual drum kit system works well with only minimal audio processing delay. During our demonstration, we tested our system in Duncan Hall where we expected the noise and echo to severely affect our system. However, the result appeared to be fairly good with acceptable audio delay and 'hit' detect error.

In the future, we will consider:

Based on our current testing results, we saw potential enhancement that we may keep working on the system in the future.

• Delay: All implementations are based on MATLAB, which is not suitable for real time processing. We may move our implementations to LABVIEW or Cpp to achieve better results in real time.
• Multi-stick: We may include another stick in our system to allow players to use two sticks simultaneously, which better simulates a real drum kit.