Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1994-01-05
1996-02-13
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84477R, G09B 1504, G10H 126
Patent
active
054912970
ABSTRACT:
A musical instrument including an actuator which generates a plurality of signals in response to being played by a user; an audio synthesizer which generates audio tones in response to control signals; a memory storing a musical score for the actuator; a video display unit; and a digital processing means controlling the audio synthesizer and the video display unit. The stored musical score includes a sequence of lead notes each of which has an associated time stamp to identify a time at which it is supposed to be played in the musical score. The digital processing means is programmed to map the plurality of signals to a corresponding subsequence of lead notes from among the sequence of lead notes; it is programmed to produce a sequence of control signals from the subsequence of lead notes for causing the synthesizer to generate sounds representing the subsequence of lead notes; it is programmed to display on the video display unit a trace indicating when the lead notes of the sequence of lead notes are supposed to be played by the user as a function of time; and it is programmed to display relative to that trace an indicator marking where the user is supposed to be within the musical score as a function of an elapsed real time.
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Johnson Charles L.
Miller Allan A.
Miller Vernon A.
Snow Herbert P.
Ahead, Inc.
Witkowski Stanley J.
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