Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-04
2010-06-08
Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
active
07732703
ABSTRACT:
A device is disclosed for converting guitar sounds to MIDI commands. The device has 7 microcontrollers. Each guitar string's oscillations are filtered and amplified with input filters and input amplifiers. The conditioned string signal is directed to an input of an associated microcontroller and converted to a MIDI command. Each string has an input filter and amplifier, and a microcontroller that converts the string oscillations into a MIDI command. MIDI commands from all six microcontrollers are received and processed by a main microcontroller that transmits the commands to the MIDI interface of a musical instrument with additional modification, if needed.
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Donels Jeffrey
Ediface Digital, LLC.
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