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This paper describes FTAP, a flexible data collection system for tapping and music experiments. FTAP runs on standard PC hardware with the Linux operating system and can process input keystrokes and auditory output with reliable millisecond resolution. It uses standard MIDI devices for input and output and is particularly flexible in the area of auditory feedback manipulation. FTAP can run a wide variety of experiments, including synchronization/continuation tasks (Wing & Kristofferson, 1973), synchronization tasks combined with delayed auditory feedback (Aschersleben & Prinz, 1997), continuation tasks with isolated feedback perturbations (Wing, 1977), and complex alterations of feedback in music performance (Finney, 1997). Such experiments have often been implemented with custom hardware and software systems, but with FTAP they can be specified by a simple ASCII text parameter file. FTAP is available at no cost in source-code form.
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FTAP started out as a program implemented on a Silicon Graphics Indigo computer for my own research (Finney, 1997, 1999; Finney & Warren, 2000).
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Finney, S.A. FTAP: A Linux-based program for tapping and music experiments. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 33, 65–72 (2001). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195348
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