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| 20080202320 | Method and Electronic Device for Determining a Characteristic of a Content Item - The method of determining a characteristic of a content item comprises the steps of selecting ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080223199 | Instant Rehearseless Conducting - A method includes receiving digital inputs from a joystick linked to a computer causing affects to music generated from a first music file, and storing the affected generated music in a second music file. The digital inputs can include movements resulting positioning the joystick. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080236366 | Melody Encoding and Searching System - An input sequence of musical notes is converted to a melodic contour by detecting note interval changes, e.g., in semitones, between consecutive musical notes in the sequence and mapping the detected note interval changes to corresponding change codes in a defined set of change codes, which have non-uniform step sizes for quantizing note interval changes. Correspondingly, a system, such as a local and/or a remote computer system system (e.g., a web-based melody search server) compares input melodic contours with a database of stored melodic contours to determine matching information, which can be provided to the users that generated the input sequences of musical notes. The system may be configured to search computer networks to identify audio files for representation in the database of stored melodic contours. Further, an embodiment provides for a graphical keyboard for entry of musical note sequences and/or provides for receiving such sequences through a MIDI port. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080236367 | MUSICAL PIECE EXTRACTION PROGRAM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a musical piece extraction program stored in a computer-readable storage medium, the program causing a computer to perform a process including the steps of, detecting a musical piece likeliness of each of pieces of processing-unit data that constitute input audio data, based on a result of the detection of the musical piece likeliness, identifying a musical piece candidate section within the audio data, based on the musical piece candidate section and musical piece information acquired from an external server, determining a musical piece section within the audio data, and recording the musical piece information onto a recording medium so as to be associated with the musical piece section. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080257134 | Method And Apparatus For Generating And Updating A Pre-Categorized Song Database From Which Consumers May Select And Then Download Desired Playlists - Apparatus, methods, systems, and data structures for organizing music files such that consumers can download single songs or entire predetermined libraries of songs with one or two clicks on an Internet browser. For passive listeners without the time to generate their own playlists, 500 to 30,000 song libraries can be downloaded to a PC, and then side loaded to an MP3 player. This will enable users to replicate the experience of listening to a favorite broadcast radio channel having songs most likely to please the listener, with zero interruptions. The stored and downloaded songs are individually categorized by song title, artist, mood/tempo, multiple genres, era, original song release date, and audience reach (e.g., audience crossover potential). For a subscription fee, the consumer will have continued access to listen to the downloaded and side loaded songs, but without the ability to copy or transfer the song. For an additional fee (or a higher subscription fee) the consumer can take actual ownership of downloaded song libraries and/or individual songs. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080295673 | Method and apparatus for outputting audio data and musical score image - A method and apparatus for outputting audio data and a musical score image, displaying a musical score image corresponding to reproduced audio data, and outputting audio data corresponding to a musical score image are provided, in which a tone is extracted, the tone is converted into a frequency, a monotone or polyphonic tone is identified, the frequency corresponding to a monotone or polyphonic tone is converted into tone information data, and the tone information data is stored, and a musical score is displayed. Also, audio data corresponding to a musical score are output, in which the musical score is photographed, musical signs from the photographed musical score are extracted, a pitch of a tone is extracted from music paper and musical note information of the musical signs, a duration of the tone from the musical note information of the musical signs is extracted, and audio data are output. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080302233 | Digital music systems - Digital music systems, apparatus and techniques based on digitized music data and information to allow for a wide range of applications including digital music practice companion systems. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080314231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING MUSICAL KEYS FROM AN AUDIO SOURCE REPRESENTING A MUSICAL COMPOSITION - A system and method thereof for determining the musical key of a musical composition. The system includes a database of reference musical works, defined by both a root musical key and a note strength profile, and a musical key estimation system that detects the musical key of the musical compositing based on relationships between the note strength profiles of the reference works and the note strength profile of the musical composition. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090007761 | Electronic Keyboard Instrument Having a Key Driver - An electronic keyboard instrument with a key driver stores automatic performance data including a first event and first timing data and key-driving data including a second event and second timing data that precedes the first timing data for a predetermined time, and reproduces the automatic performance data and the key-driving data in parallel. An event which appears first is detected in the automatic performance data and the key-driving data when the reproduction is started. The automatic performance data and the key-driving data are reproduced rapidly until the detected event and at a normal speed after the detected event. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090025539 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING MUSIC TO BE RECOMMENDED FOR USER BY USING MUSIC REPRODUCTION DEVICE - A music reproduction device for recommending music suitable for a taste of a user is provided. When the music reproduction device reproduces music, a motion of the user is measured. A range of a tempo in which a tempo of music is matched with a tempo of the motion of the user is determined as a range of a preferred tempo of the user. Pieces of music to be recommended for the user are selected based on the determined range of the tempo. Thus, it is possible to accurately recommend pieces of music suitable for the taste of the user without an additional input for generating a recommendation list by the user. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090025540 | MELODY GENERATOR - The invention relates to a method for automatic generation of melodies where from one step to a following a new parameter value is generated that is sent to a unit emitting sound. The parameters comprise a new note pitch, a new window width, a life span for the window width, a window offset and a life span for the window offset. The new note pitch is selected according to a given probability distribution within the interval of note pitches given by the note pitch in a previous step, the window width and the window offset. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031882 | Method for Classifying Music - A method for classifying music includes providing music classification data, providing an unclassified piece of music to be classified, and deriving for each music class within the music classification data a respective Gish distance value. A finite set of a finite number of Gish distance values is descriptive for the relation of the unclassified piece of music to be classified with respect to a discrete and finite set of a finite number of music classes. Alternatively, for a given piece of music to be classified, music classification data of a n-tuple of at least three numbers are obtained, which are representative for the mood of the piece of music. From the n-tuple of numbers of the music classification data a pair of two dimensional coordinate values are determined, which are representative for the mood of the piece of music. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090031883 | Networked karaoke system and method - A networked karaoke system, comprising an electronic device comprising a karaoke module configured to transmit karaoke content over a communication network for output by at least one other electronic device, the karaoke module configured to receive sing-along content from a user of the at least one other electronic device. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090031884 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A musical performance processing apparatus that provides better assistance for student's practice. The apparatus includes a main unit in which music data including performance information of right- and left hand parts is stored, and a performance terminal having a keyboard divided into two key ranges by a split point. Each key range is set as a tapping or normal performance key range. The main unit generates a musical tone when input with performance information generated by depression of a key in the normal performance key range, and automatically reproduces performance information of designated part of music data for the number of beats corresponding to key depression, when input with performance information generated by depression of a key in the tapping performance key range. Sounding is stopped, if there is a deviation between a tempo of teacher's tapping performance and timing of student's performance. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090038467 | Interactive music training and entertainment system - Embodiments of a music training and entertainment system are described that allows a user to input a selection of source music in a native format, and isolates a desired vocal or instrument component within the source music. The user selects the component of the source music against which he or she will be compared. The system suppresses the non-selected components of the source content to isolate the user-selected component. The system receives user input corresponding to the isolated component, such as a vocal track, and matches the receiver's performance to the original performance. The system then provides meaningful and entertaining feedback to allow the user to practice and improve his or her performance. In a multi-user configuration a number of users, such as a band or ensemble can provide a performance, or individual users can compete against each other to see who can obtain the highest score. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090038468 | Interactive Music Training and Entertainment System and Multimedia Role Playing Game Platform - Embodiments of a music training and entertainment system are described that allows a user to input a selection of source music in a native format, and isolates a desired vocal or instrument component within the source music. The user selects the component of the source music against which he or she will be compared. The system suppresses the non-selected components of the source content to isolate the user-selected component. The system receives user input corresponding to the isolated component, such as a vocal track, and matches the receiver's performance to the original performance. The system then provides meaningful and entertaining feedback to allow the user to practice and improve his or her performance. In a multi-user configuration a number of users, such as a band or ensemble can provide a performance, or individual users can compete against each other to see who can obtain the highest score. In a graphical user interface, avatars representing parties within the system are displayed in relation to an audience. Audience reaction is configured to reflect a score obtained by the user. A lyric extraction and generation process displays lyrics to a song in virtual real time to the user as the music track is played to the user. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090044686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING METADATA TO INCORPORATE MUSIC INTO NON-MUSIC APPLICATIONS - A system and method are provided for incorporating music into other, non-music applications of an electronic device. The metadata of music files on an electronic device may be searched according to specified search criteria. The metadata search identifies matching music that would be appropriate to play while using, or incorporate into, a non-music application. If the metadata search indicates that the mobile device does not have stored in memory an appropriate matching music file, then the user may be directed to a server or other location on a communications network that stores music files. The user may then download or stream the music files whose metadata matches the search criteria from the network for incorporation into the non-music application. In one exemplary embodiment, the non-music application is a video game, and the game program searches music metadata to find one or more music files in which the musical style matches the style of game play | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090044687 | System for integrating music with an exercise regimen - A system is disclosed for selecting and integrating music received from a user's personal music library into an exercise routine. The system includes a music analyzer software module that characterizes rhythmic qualities of each song in the music library, creating a rhythmically quantified collection of the user's music which serves as one input to a song selection module. Other inputs to the selection module include target workout parameters and user defined data that include the user's physical metrics and the user's preferences for song selection and repetition. Real time data associated with the user's physical activity can also be supplied to the selection module, which associates particular songs with the user's physical activity. The song selection module supplies the selected songs in a sequential fashion to a personal music device worn by the user while the user is engaged in a structured type of physical exertion. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090044688 | MUSICAL PIECE MATCHING JUDGING DEVICE, MUSICAL PIECE RECORDING DEVICE, MUSICAL PIECE MATCHING JUDGING METHOD, MUSICAL PIECE RECORDING METHOD, MUSICAL PIECE MATCHING JUDGING PROGRAM, AND MUSICAL PIECE RECORDING PROGRAM - Characteristic amounts are calculated from each of multiple musical piece contents, and then time points when the characteristic amounts exceed a threshold are detected as cut points. Information on the cut point concerning each of the multiple musical piece contents is stored. Based on the stored information on the cut point, a judgment is made as to whether the multiple musical piece contents match each other. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090056525 | Method And Apparatus For Generating And Updating A Pre-Categorized Song Database From Which Consumers May Select And Then Download Desired Playlists - Apparatus, methods, systems, and data structures for providing a music-subscription service customer with a portable music device that has been preloaded with customer-selected music. A music-subscription service provider receives a customer order to purchase a portable music device, and also receives the customer's selection of less than all of the music available on the music-subscription service provider's music database. The music-subscription service provider uses a computer to download the customer-selected music to the portable music device ordered by the customer. The music-subscription service provider then provides to the customer the portable music device that has been preloaded with the customer-selected music. The steps may be performed over the Internet and/or at a retail location. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090071315 | Music analysis and generation method - A system for the creation of music based upon input provided by the user. A user can upload a number of musical compositions into the system. The user can then select from a number of different statistical methods to be used in creating new compositions. The system utilizes a selected statistical method to determine patterns amongst the inputs and creates a new musical composition that utilizes the discovered patterns. The user can select from the following statistical methods: Radial Basis Function (RBF) Regression, Polynomial Regression, Hidden Markov Models (HMM) (Gaussian), HMM (discrete), Next Best Note (NBN), and K-Means clustering. After the existing musical pieces and the statistical method are chosen, the system develops a new musical composition. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090071316 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MUSIC STORAGE - Apparatus for controlling music storage includes a memory, and a processor configured to (i) control the storing of a plurality of digital song files in the memory, and (ii) control the storing in the memory of a plurality of song indicia corresponding to each digital song file. The plurality of song indicia for each digital song file preferably includes artist, song title, and at least one of (i) audience reach, (ii) song original release date, (iii) plural different genres, (iv) mood, and (v) era. The apparatus may comprise on or more of a portable music player, a personal computer, an Internet server, or a cable or satellite device. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090084248 | MUSIC PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR MUSIC SESSION AND COMPONENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - Automatic player pianos and internet form a music performance system for a music session on the automatic player pianos through data communication between the automatic player pianos, and a communication time lag and mechanical time lag are unavoidably introduced between the data transmission and the data reception and between the data reception and tone generation; one of or both of the time lags are compensated by employment of an electronic tone generation, presumption of key positions or presumption of key event so that the slave automatic player piano generates the tones almost concurrently with the tones generated through the master automatic player piano. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090084249 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF PIECES OF MUSIC - Method for providing an overview of pieces of music, comprising: providing at least two pieces of music; determining at least two sections of said pieces of music, wherein one of said sections is determined from one of said pieces of music and another of said sections is determined from another of said pieces of music; and arranging said sections in a sequence. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090084250 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HUMANIZING MUSICAL SEQUENCES - A method for humanizing a music sequence (S), the music sequence (S) comprising a multitude of sounds (s | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090095145 | Fragment search apparatus and method - Analysis section divides waveform data of a given music piece into waveform data of a plurality of fragments and divides the waveform data of each of the fragments into one or more events of sound, and obtains a character value indicative of a character of the waveform data pertaining to each of the divided events. Storage section stores respective music piece data and music piece composing data of one or more music pieces. The music piece composing data include a character value indicative of a character of the waveform data pertaining to each of the events of each of the fragments. Search section searches (or retrieves) for, from among the stored music piece composing data, one event or a plurality of successive events having a character value of a high degree of similarity to one or more events included in a designated fragment. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090107320 | Personalized Music Remixing - A personal music mixing system with an embodiment providing beats and vocals configured using a web browser and musical compositions generated from said beats and vocals. Said embodiment provides a plurality of beats and vocals that a user may suitably mix to create a new musical composition and make such composition available for future playback by the user or by others. In some embodiments, the user advantageously may hear a sample musical composition having beats and vocals with particular user-configured parameter settings and may adjust said settings until the user deems the musical composition complete. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090120268 | Apparatus and Method for Searching and Displaying Data - An apparatus and method for searching and displaying data are provided. The method includes a scroller having a plurality of touch pads, a memory for storing the data, a controller for obtaining a first memory area of the memory in which data to be displayed are stored, and then sequentially displaying the data of the first memory area when the data to be displayed are selected, as well as obtaining a second memory area within the first memory area corresponding to a position of a touched touch pad and then sequentially displaying data of the second memory area when the touch pad is touched for more than a pre-determined time, and obtaining a scroll direction based on the position of the touched touch pad and then scrolling the screen in the obtained scroll direction when the touch pad is touched for less than the pre-determined time, and a user interface for enabling a user can to select the data to be displayed or request a memory mapping operation, and displaying or scrolling the data on a screen under control of the controller. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090120269 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGES - A method of aligning a song with lyrics of the song which comprises the steps of aligning each lyrics fragment of a group of similar lyrics fragments (C) in the lyrics of the song with an audio fragment of a group of similar audio fragments (A | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090133567 | ELECTRONIC MUSIC SYSTEM - An electronic music system includes a computer which performs a sequencing function and a remote controller. The remote controller is provided with a start operator and a selection operator. In response to an instruction made by the start operator of the remote controller, the computer or the remote controller adds a new track on a sequencer configured on the computer. The computer or the remote controller then offers options of available different types of tone generators used for the track, and in accordance with a selection made by the selection operator in a state where the available different types of tone generators have been offered, assigns the selected type of tone generator to the track. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090145283 | Electronic Musical System and Control Method for Controlling an Electronic Musical Apparatus of the System - An electronic musical system in which tone generator parameters of each of tone generators respectively assigned to tracks of a sequencer of an electronic musical apparatus can easily be controlled by using a musical control apparatus, while tracks are switched. In the setting of the tone generator parameters of the tone generators assigned to the tracks, setting contents are input by using control operating elements of the musical control apparatus. There are prepared in advance templates in each of which control operating elements are made to correspond to tone generator parameters controlled by the control operating elements, and each tone generator is made in one-to-one correspondence with one of the templates, whereby tone generator parameters of a tone generator assigned to a track currently designated by a user are set by manipulating the control operating elements of the musical control apparatus. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090145284 | MOTION DATA GENERATION DEVICE, MOTION DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECORDING A MOTION DATA GENERATION PROGRAM - To generate motion data of a motion in synchronization with a melody of music. As an embodiment of the present invention, when motion pattern data corresponding to a predetermined motion pattern is stored, music data is analyzed to detect a beat of music based on the music data, and the music data is divided into a plurality of bar intervals based on the detected beat, the motion pattern data is allocated to the bar intervals of the music data being divided to generate motion data. In this manner, when the motion data is reproduced together with the music data, the motion pattern can be switched in synchronization with switching of first bar intervals and second bar intervals corresponding to a bar when the music based on music data is expressed in a musical score. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090151544 | METHOD FOR MUSIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS - Method for music structure analysis of a piece of music, comprising: determining predetermined features for a plurality of sections of said piece of music, wherein said sections are longer than a shortest time span corresponding to a meaningful part of said piece of music; comparing at least two sections based on said predetermined features; determining a chorus of said piece of music based on a comparison result of said step of comparing. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090165632 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VIDEO GAME CONTENT - Systems and methods for a creating a music-based video game are described as is a portable music and video device housing a memory for storing executable instructions and a processor for executing the instructions. Creating video game content using musical content supplied from a source other than the game includes analyzing musical content to identify at least one musical event extant in the musical event; determining a salient musical property associated with the at least one identified event; and creating a video game event synchronized to the at least one identified musical event and reflective of the determined salient musical property associated with the at least one identified event. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090178541 | OVERDUBBING DEVICE - A CPU of an overdubbing device plays back a music file recorded in a memory card of the device and outputs the file as a played-back audio signal while mixing the played-back audio signal with an external audio signal input from the outside, to thus perform overdubbing. A music file recorded through overdubbing last time is automatically set as a playback music file for the next time, and a selected state of means for selecting execution/nonexecution of overdubbing is maintained as the state of execution. As a result, overdubbing is enabled by twice operations of a record key, whereby the operation is made identical with operation performed during ordinary recording. Further, playback is performed by changing either playback speed or musical interval of the playback music file. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090178542 | BEAT MATCHING FOR PORTABLE AUDIO - Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat alignment. A variable resampling converter or time scale modifier adjusts one stream to align beats with those of the other (reference) stream. Thus for cross-fading two music streams the beats of the fading-in stream can be matched to those of the fading-out stream for a seamless transition. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090193959 | AUDIO RECORDING ANALYSIS AND RATING - An audio recording is processed and evaluated. A sequence of identified notes corresponding to the audio recording is determined by iteratively identifying potential notes within the audio recording. A rating for the audio recording is determined using a tuning rating and an expression rating. The audio recording includes a recording of at least a portion of a musical composition. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090205480 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VARIABLE ROOT NOTE SUPPORT IN AN AUDIO PLAYER - A method for providing variable root note support in an audio player is described. A file with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data and a set of user defined instruments is received. A metric is determined using a user defined root note in the user defined instruments, a key number for a MIDI note in the MIDI data, and a player specific root note. The key number is adjusted based on the metric. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090205481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-REGION INSTRUMENT SUPPORT IN AN AUDIO PLAYER - A method for providing multi-region instrument support in an audio player is described. A set of user defined instruments and a set of MIDI data is received. At least one multi-region instrument in the set of user defined instruments is identified. Each region in the multi-region instruments is mapped to a single region instrument with the same parameters as the region. A new instrument number is assigned to each single region instrument. The MIDI data is modified based on the mapping and assigning. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090241758 | SOUND-OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND NOTE-OBJECT ORIENTED PROCESSING OF POLYPHONIC SOUND RECORDINGS - A method of sound-object oriented analysis and of note-object oriented processing a polyphonic digitized sound recording present in the form of a time signal F(A, t) includes the following analytical and processing steps: portion-wise readouts of the time signal F(A, t) using a window function and overlapping windows; Fourier-transforming the readout signal into frequency space, in particular by applying a discrete Fourier transform; calculating an energy value E at each bin from the frequency amplitude resulting from the Fourier transformation, in particular by squaring the real and imaginary parts or forming energy values derived from them; generating a function F(t, f, E); identifying event objects; identifying event objects; identifying note objects; comparing the temporal occurrence of event objects and note objects and associating event objects to note objects in the case of plausible time occurrences; calculating spectral proportion factors for each note object. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090249944 | METHOD FOR MAKING A MUSICAL CREATION - A method is provided for enabling the establishment of a musical creation by integrating a plurality of musical works performed non-simultaneously by a plurality of users, by uploading the plurality of musical works at a pre-define Internet site and integrating that plurality of musical works, thereby establishing the musical creation. In addition, the invention provides that by contributing to the integrated creation the contributor automatically waves his/her respective rights to the musical work, thereby the integrated musical work can freely be played without exposing its player to allegations of infringing any intellectual property rights. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090266225 | Method and System for Delivering Signaling Tone Sequences - In a method for delivering signaling tones to signaling devices or signaling systems, a signaling tone sequence is selected from a set of undelivered signaling tone sequences. The selected signaling tone sequence is removed from the set of undelivered signaling tone sequences, and the selected signaling tone sequence is delivered. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090272251 | Systems and methods for portable audio synthesis - Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, preferably employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play). The system preferably is provided in a handheld form factor, and a graphical display is provided to display status information, graphical representations of musical lanes or components which preferably vary in shape as musical parameters and the like are changed for particular instruments or musical components such as a microphone input or audio samples. An interactive auto-composition process preferably employs musical rules and a pseudo random number generator, which may also incorporate randomness introduced by timing of user input or the like. The user may quickly begin creating desirable music in accordance with one or a variety of musical styles, with the user modifying the auto-composed (or previously created) musical composition, either for a real time performance and/or for storing and subsequent playback. An analysis process flow also is disclosed for using pre-existing music as input(s) to an algorithm to derive music rules that may be used as part of a music style in a subsequent auto-composition process. In addition, the present invention makes use of node-based music generation as part of a system and method to broadcast and receive music data files, which are then used to generate and play music. By incorporating the music generation process into a node/subscriber unit, bandwidth requirements are lowered, and consequently the bandwidth can preferably be used for additional features such as node-to-node and node-to-base music data transmission. The present invention is characterized by the broadcast of relatively small data files that contain various parameters sufficient to describe the music to the node/subscriber music generator. In addition, improved audio synthesis in a portable environment is provided with the present invention by performing audio synthesis in a manner that simplifies design requirements and/or minimizes cost, while still providing quality audio synthesis features targeted for a portable system (e.g., portable telephone). In addition, problems associated with the tradeoff between overall sound quality and memory requirements in a MIDI sound bank are addressed in the present invention by providing systems and methods for a reduced memory size footprint MIDI sound bank. In addition, music ringtone alert tone remixing, navigation, and purchasing capabilities are disclosed that are particularly advantageous in the context of a portable communications device, such as a cellular telephone, in connection with a communications network. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090277322 | Scalable Music Recommendation by Search - An exemplary method includes providing a music collection of a particular scale, determining a distance parameter for locality sensitive hashing based at least in part on the scale of the music collection and constructing an index for the music collection. Another exemplary method includes providing a song, extracting snippets from the song, analyzing time-varying timbre characteristics of the snippets and constructing one or more queries based on the analyzing. Such exemplary methods may be implemented by a portable device configured to maintain an index, to perform searches based on selected songs or portions of songs and to generate playlists from search results. Other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090293705 | MOBILE MUSICAL GAMING WITH INTERACTIVE VECTOR HYBRID MUSIC - A method for interacting with music on a mobile device comprises actuating by a user vector music which is overlaid on streaming music. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090301287 | Gallery of Ideas - Systems and methods for using musical data are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes receiving input selecting a musical phrase including musical data. A copy of the musical phrase is created and persistently stored. An input is received selecting a destination location in a musical score. The copy of the persistently stored musical phrase is placed into the musical score at the selected location. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090320669 | Composition production with audience participation - In a method of producing a composition having a primary component and a secondary component, a primary component is generated by a primary producer. A secondary component is generated by a secondary producer while the primary producer is generating the primary component; the secondary component is selected from a menu provided to the secondary producer. The primary component and the secondary component are then combined to produce the composition. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100031804 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions - A method of providing a file structure for use in a music playback device is disclosed. A slotted structure is provided that has a header portion that precedes a plurality of slot portions. The header portion includes a set of parameter locations indicating one or more of the following: header length, checksum, file type, file version, and number of slots. A first slot portion includes a set of parameter locations indicating one or more of the following: slot type, name length, name, data length, and data. A second slot portion includes a set of parameter locations indicating one or more of the following: slot type, name length, name, data length, and data. The first slot data parameter location contains audio waveform data, and slots can be added and removed via firmware/operating system without affecting the other slots. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100050853 | System for Providing Lyrics with Streaming Music - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing lyrics with streaming music. A music stream is accessed that includes timing information for a song. Lyrics and other textual information such as song title, song artist, and album title are also accessed. A lyric file may be accessed that includes further timing information. The timing information is used to synchronize the song lyrics and music stream. A user may be permitted access to the synchronized lyrics and music stream by presentation on a display through a digital television set-top box. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100058920 | MUSIC REPRODUCING SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATION, PROGRAM REPRODUCER, MUSIC DATA DISTRIBUTOR AND PROGRAM PRODUCER - A music reproducing system includes a musical instrument for reproducing a music tune on the basis of the MIDI music data, a sound reproducer for reproducing a music tune and/or narration from audio data codes and a server computer for distributing programs, MIDI files and audio files to the musical instrument and sound reproducer, and a program contains plural music tunes and narration; while a program is being reproduced in collaboration between the musical instrument and the sound reproducer, the audio data codes are converted to an audio signal expressing the narration through the sound reproducer, and the music tunes are reproduced on the basis of the MIDI files through the musical instrument; and the duration data codes of audio file are supplied to the musical instrument so as to make the musical instrument and the sound reproducer synchronized with each other. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064880 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT HAVING GROUPABLE PLAYING PADS - An electronic percussion musical instrument comprises a plurality of playing pads for playing music by striking the face of each pad. The pads are configured to work either as individual pads respectively for playing different percussion tones or as grouped pad zones by combining some of the pads, each zone playing a same percussion tone. Plural timbres of musical tones are stored in a storage unit and are respectively allocated to the individual playing pads or the grouped pad zones. The grouped pad zone can be handled just as a wide area pad. When an individual pad or a grouped pad zone is struck, the allocated tone will be generated. Some of the pads or grouped pad zones can be used as a special playing technique instruction pad to input an instruction to impart an effect of special playing technique to the tones to be generated. As a tone playing pad is struck with the special playing technique instruction pad being pressed, a musical tone allocated to the tone playing pad is generated with the special playing technique effect being imparted thereto. The pads can be two-dimensional and three-dimensional. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100064881 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT PRESENTING PAD CHAIN PERFORMANCE - An electronic percussion musical instrument comprises a plurality of playing pads for playing music by striking the face of each pad. The pads are configured to provide ungrouped pad zones, each constituted by an individual playing pad and grouped pad zones, each constituted by combining plural playing pads into a grouped pad zone to work as an integral pad zone. Timbres of musical tones are allocated to the respective pad zones. A sequence of pad zones, each designating the allocated timbre, is set for a pad zone to represent a pad chain performance, so that plural music playing strikes on the same pad zone cause the generation of musical tones in the timbres allocated not only to the struck pad zone but also to the other pad zones in the order designated in the sequence for the pad chain performance on the struck pad zone. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100132536 | FILE CREATION PROCESS, FILE FORMAT AND FILE PLAYBACK APPARATUS ENABLING ADVANCED AUDIO INTERACTION AND COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES - A file creation process, file format and playback device are provided that enables an interactive and if desired collaborative music playback experience for the user(s) by combining or retro-fitting an ‘original song’ with a MIDI time grid, the MIDI score of the song and other data in a synchronized fashion. The invention enables a music interaction platform that requires a small amount of time to learn and very little skill, knowledge or talent to use and is designed to bring ‘mixing music’ to the average person. The premiere capability that the file format provides, is the capability for any two bars, multiples of bars or pre-designated ‘parts’ from any two songs to be mixed in both tempo and bar by bar synchronization in a non-linear drag and drop fashion (and therefore almost instantaneously). The file format provides many further interaction capabilities however such a remixing MIDI tracks from the original song back in with the song. In the preferable embodiment the playback means is a software application on a handheld portable device which utilizes a multitouch-screen user interface, such as an iPhone. A single user can musically interact with the device and associated ‘original songs’ etc or interactively collaborate with other users in like fashion, either whilst in the same room or over the Internet. The advanced inter-active functionality the file format enables in combination with the unique features of the iPhone (as a playback device), such as the multitouch-screen and accelerometer, enable furthered intuitive and enhanced music interaction capabilities. The object of the invention is to make music interaction (mixing for example) a regular activity for the average person. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100162879 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF A SONG FOR PROCESS LEARNING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to ad hoc music creation to facilitate learning and provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated generation of a song for process learning. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automated generation of a song for process learning can include loading from fixed storage a process description for transformation into a song intended to facilitate learning of the process by a target listener. The method also can include defining lyrical segments for the process description, selecting a particular melody from a set of melodies stored in fixed storage, and mapping the defined lyrical segments to musical phrases in the particular melody. Finally, the method can include merging pre-recorded audio segments corresponding to the defined lyrical segments with the musical phrases in the particular melody according to the mapping to generate the song. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100218663 | MUSIC PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MUSIC SELECTION AND PLAYBACK - A music playback apparatus displays a music file list on a touch screen and pre-plays a music file according to a touch input. If the touch input is removed, the pre-playing may stop. The processor may identify whether the touch input is long or short key signal, and may perform a playback process or a pre-play process on the music file. The processor may include a touch identifier to identify whether the touch down is the long key signal or the short key signal, a pre-listen executer to pre-play the music file, and a player manager to playback the music file. A method for playback may include pre-playing the music file when receiving a touch input or if a touch is received on a pre-listen icon corresponding to the music file, and stopping the pre-playing if the touch input is released or if the pre-listen icon is touched again. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100236385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONAL EXERCISE TRAINER - Determining a plurality of heart rate sections for an individual, and selecting a plurality of songs, wherein each of the plurality of songs has an average beats per minute approximately equal to an average beats per minute of one of the plurality of heart rate sections, and playing the plurality of songs in a sequence on a song playing device. The plurality of songs includes a middle song, which has an average beats per minute which is greater than the average beats per minute of all of the other songs of the plurality of songs. The plurality of songs includes one or more preceding songs which precede the middle song, and each of which has an average beats per minute which is less than the average beats per minute of the middle song. The plurality of songs includes one or more succeeding songs which succeed the middle song, and each of which has an average beats per minute which is less than the average beats per minute of the middle song. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100251876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MELODIC SEGMENTATION AND MOTIVIC IDENTIFICATION - The present invention comprises a system and method, modeled on research observations in human perception and cognition, capable of accurately segmenting primarily (although not exclusively) melodic input in performance data and encoded digital audio data, and mining the results for defining motives within the input data. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100251877 | Beat Matching for Portable Audio - Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat alignment. A variable resampling converter or time scale modifier adjusts one stream to align beats with those of the other (reference) stream. Thus for cross-fading two music streams the beats of the fading-in stream can be matched to those of the fading-out stream for a seamless transition. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100257994 | Method and apparatus for producing audio tracks - A system for automatically manipulating prerecorded audio data to produce an audio track synchronized to a target video track. The system allows a user to select a music source from multiple music sources stored in a music library. Each music source includes multiple audio portions having block data and beat data associated therewith. The block data includes data blocks respectively, specifying the duration of the associated audio portions. Each data block preferably also includes interblock compatibility data and/or suitability data. The beat data, generally referred to as a “beatmap”, comprises timing information specifying the rhythmic pulse, or “beat” for the associated music source portion. The system is operable to produce an audio track synchronized to a video timing specification (VTS) specifying successive timing segments delimited by successive video events. After the user selects a music source, the system generates a music segment for each defined timing segment. Each music segment is generated by assembling an ordered sequence of compatible data blocks selected at least in part based on their suitability and/or compatibility characteristics. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100282044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box (STB) having a controller to present a first portion of a stringed musical instrument at a presentation device, present a second portion of the stringed musical instrument on a display of a communication device communicatively coupled to the STB, present at the presentation device a musical score and a demonstrative stimulus applied to the first portion according to a portion of the musical score, receive from the communication device a stimulus applied to the second portion of the stringed musical instrument, and present an audible sound corresponding to a combination of the demonstrative stimulus applied to the first portion and the stimulus applied to the second portion. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100288106 | METADATA-BASED SONG CREATION AND EDITING - Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the like. The set of musical elements is provided to a user for selection of particular musical elements The selected musical elements represent the song model. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100319517 | System and Method for Generating a Musical Compilation Track from Multiple Takes - An apparatus for creating a musical composition comprising an audio interface, and audio converter module, and a multi-track compositor module is disclosed. The audio interface operably receives audio from an audio input device and outputting audio to an audio output device. The audio converter module is operably connected to the audio interface to convert audio received via the audio interface into an audio track having one or more partitions. The multi-track compositor module is configured to receive a first audio track and a second audio track and automatically score each partition of the first and second audio tracks based on one or more criteria. The multi-track compositor module is then configured to construct a third audio track from the partitions of the first and second audio tracks based on the scores for each partition. A method is also provided. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110023689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A GAME DEVICE MUSIC TRACK FROM MUSIC - Game player performance information systems and methods generate game player performance information. An exemplary embodiment receives a specification of an audio track of interest; receives a specification of a musical instrument, wherein the musical instrument corresponds to an instrument simulation device that a game player operates when playing the musical game; determines an instrument audio track based upon the audio track of interest, wherein the instrument audio track corresponds to music played by the specified musical instrument during the recording of the audio track of interest; generating a plurality of instrument notes based upon the instrument audio track; generates a plurality of game play notes based upon the instrument notes; and generates game player performance information based upon the game play notes, wherein the game player performance information identifies the sequence of specific player actions for the game player to make during playback of the audio track of interest. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110023690 | Hand-held music player with wireless peer-to-peer music sharing - The apparatus involves a hand-held housing with a memory for storing coded audio event data, a mechanism for downloading into the memory coded audio event data and digital-audio electronics for retrieving coded audio event data from memory, converting it to an audio signal and playing it out. In one disclosed embodiment of the invention, the data are stored in accordance with a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) standard, and may be created on an appropriately equipped personal computer (PC). The capacity of such a hand-held device is far greater than if the data were conventionally digitized or coded. A wirelessly networked system of such music devices in physical proximity is disclosed that enables audio score synthesis and mixing by at least one such device of a synthesized score and an inputted score for outplay to others in a real-time musical jam or music-sharing session. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110100197 | SOUND SEQUENCES WITH TRANSITIONS AND PLAYLISTS - A home theater system includes construction, presentation, and commerce in, songs. Presentation includes at least one of: metadata about songs or sounds, a function capable of transitioning from one song to a next song, and user preferences; and can determine in what manner to transition from one song to a next song. Construction of songs includes either factors above, or at least one of: a function or a user extension capable of selecting a next song, and an element capable of determining whether the song is perceptually random. A user interface is capable of searching playlists and selecting them for presentation, representing each playlist with a substantially unique pictorial representation, distinguishing in presentation between those playlists licensed to the user and those that are not, and capable of substantially immediate purchase of playlist licenses either individually or in bulk and either automatically or with minimal intervention. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110120289 | MUSIC COMPARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A music comparing system determines whether a first song is same as a second song. Notes of the first and second songs are transcribed. A number of pitch differences between two adjacent notes of the first and second songs are recorded, and the pitch differences of the first song are transformed to a first relative step pattern, and the pitch differences of the second song are transformed to a second relative step pattern. The first and second relative step patterns are compared to determine whether the first and second songs are the same. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110154977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEST MATCHING AN AUDIBLE QUERY TO A SET OF AUDIBLE TARGETS - During operation, a “coarse search” stage applies variable-scale windowing on the query pitch contours to compare them with fixed-length segments of target pitch contours to find matching candidates while efficiently scanning over variable tempo differences and target locations. Because the target segments are of fixed-length, this has the effect of drastically reducing the storage space required in a prior-art method. Furthermore, by breaking the query contours into parts, rhythmic inconsistencies can be more flexibly handled. Normalization is also applied to the contours to allow comparisons independent of differences in musical key. In a “fine search” stage, a “segmental” dynamic time warping (DTW) method is applied that calculates a more accurate similarity score between the query and each candidate target with more explicit consideration toward rhythmic inconsistencies. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110192271 | Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions - A method for generating music via a computing system includes providing a website coupled to a computing system. A music application is executed on the computing system. Generated music is audibly played at least in part using the computing system. As a first step musical data is provided for a complete music piece, and the musical data for the complete music piece includes one or more seed parameter values transmitted by the website that are determinative of the complete music piece and based on which the music is generated. At least one seed parameter value is processed by a pseudorandom number generator routine to generate the music. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110209596 | Audio recording analysis and rating - An audio recording is processed and evaluated. A sequence of identified notes corresponding to the audio recording is determined by iteratively identifying potential notes within the audio recording. A rating for the audio recording is determined using a tuning rating and an expression rating. The audio recording includes a recording of at least a portion of a musical composition. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110226117 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING MUSIC PLAYING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN AND MUSIC PLAYING APPARATUS - At a time T | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110232461 | MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION - Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold value; identify a change in amplitude information from the audio signal that exceeds a second threshold value; and generate a note onset event, each note onset event representing a time location in the audio signal of at least one of an identified change in the frequency information that exceeds the first threshold value or an identified change in the amplitude information that exceeds the second threshold value. The generation of note onset events and other information from the audio input signal may be used to extract note pitch, note value, tempo, meter, key, instrumentation, and other score representation information. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110252947 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING, DISPLAYING AND SELECTING MUSIC FILES - At an apparatus ( | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110259179 | Method for Recognizing Note Patterns in Pieces of Music - Method for recognizing similarly recurring patterns of notes in a piece of music containing note sequences distributed among parallel channels, the method having the steps of: a) repeatedly segmenting each channel and, for each type of segmentation, determining segments which are similar to one another and storing the latter in lists of candidate patterns with the respective entities thereof; b) calculating an intrinsic similarity value for each list; c) calculating coincidence values for each list for each channel with respect to the lists for all other channels; and d) combining the intrinsic similarity and coincidence values for each list to form a total value for each list, and using the pattern candidates in the lists with the highest total value in each channel as recognized note patterns in the channel. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110314995 | Intervalgram Representation of Audio for Melody Recognition - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium generates an audio fingerprint for an input audio clip that is robust to differences in key, instrumentation, and other performance variations. The audio fingerprint comprises a sequence of intervalgrams that represent a melody in an audio clip according pitch intervals between different time points in the audio clip. The fingerprint for an input audio clip can be compared to a set of reference fingerprints in a reference database to determine a matching reference audio clip. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120036981 | ADJUSTMENT OF FAMILARITY IN A PLAYLIST THROUGH A SLIDER - Several methods and a system of an adjustment of familiarity in a playlist through a slider are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user may enter a particular artist or a song name through a keyboard. Once an artist or song is entered the user may be allowed to slide a slider from one end of the spectrum to the other end using a tuner. One end of the spectrum may denote the songs known to the user and the other end of the spectrum may denote the songs unknown to the user. The songs chosen by the user and the user's song selection history may be retrieved from a database module and displayed as a list of unknown songs. The list of unknown songs may be compared with the other songs in the database and a list of similar songs based on the user's seed may be generated as unknown songs. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120125178 | SCALABLE MUSIC RECOMMENDATION BY SEARCH - An exemplary method includes providing a music collection of a particular scale, determining a distance parameter for locality sensitive hashing based at least in part on the scale of the music collection and constructing an index for the music collection. Another exemplary method includes providing a song, extracting snippets from the song, analyzing time-varying timbre characteristics of the snippets and constructing one or more queries based on the analyzing. Such exemplary methods may be implemented by a portable device configured to maintain an index, to perform searches based on selected songs or portions of songs and to generate playlists from search results. Other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120132056 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MELODY RECOGNITION - The present disclosure provides a method for recognition. The method includes inputting a melody and obtaining pitch tracking information of the melody; obtaining beat information of the melody; determining a clarity value according to the pitch tracking information; implementing a first comparison process first to filter a first set of candidate songs from a database and then implementing a second comparison process to filter a second set of candidate songs from the first set of candidate songs if the clarity value is larger than a predetermined threshold; and determining at least one final candidate song from the second set of candidate songs. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120144978 | System and Method For Adaptive Melodic Segmentation and Motivic Identification - The present invention comprises a system and method, modeled on research observations in human perception and cognition, capable of accurately segmenting primarily (although not exclusively) melodic input in performance data and encoded digital audio data, and mining the results for defining motives within the input data. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120160078 | Intervalgram Representation of Audio for Melody Recognition - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium generates an audio fingerprint for an input audio clip that is robust to differences in key, instrumentation, and other performance variations. The audio fingerprint comprises a sequence of intervalgrams that represent a melody in an audio clip according pitch intervals between different time points in the audio clip. The fingerprint for an input audio clip can be compared to a set of reference fingerprints in a reference database to determine a matching reference audio clip. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120167748 | AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRING FEATURE SEGMENTS IN A MUSIC FILE - A method of automatically acquiring a feature segment in a music file includes receiving, with a processing device, a music file; converting the music file into a character string; evaluating at least one character string segment in the character string based on one or more music features; and determining, based on an evaluation result, at least one music segment corresponding to at least one character string segment in the character string as a feature segment. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120210844 | PERSONALIZED MUSIC REMIXING - A personal music mixing system with an embodiment providing beats and vocals configured using a web browser and musical compositions generated from said beats and vocals. Said embodiment provides a plurality of beats and vocals that a user may suitably mix to create a new musical composition and make such composition available for future playback by the user or by others. In some embodiments, the user advantageously may hear a sample musical composition having beats and vocals with particular user-configured parameter settings and may adjust said settings until the user deems the musical composition complete. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120266738 | MUSIC GAME IMPROVEMENTS - The present invention provides a method of processing musical information. A user can perform a musical piece, using a real musical instrument (e.g. a guitar), which is received as audio input. The audio input is then assessed to determine whether it meets various quality standards—for example, whether the user played at the right pitch, at the right time, or at the right volume. If the audio input meets the standards, audio output is then provided of a professional performance of the musical piece, such that it sounds as if the user is performing the professional audio. The standards can be adjusted to different levels, depending on the user's skill on the musical instrument. At an easy level, low standards may be applied, such that even unskilled or beginner musicians can sound like a professional. For more skilled users, the standards may be more difficult to meet. If the user does not meet the quality standards, alternative audio output may be provided, indicating incorrect performance of the musical piece. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120297958 | System and Method for Providing Audio for a Requested Note Using a Render Cache - A method for providing audio data corresponding to a requested musical note is disclosed, the method comprising: (a) providing a render cache having a plurality of cache entries, each of the cache entries corresponding to a different note; (b) receiving a request for a first note from a client; (c) identifying a first cache entry corresponding to the first note; (d) determining that a first audio segment corresponding to the first cache entry is not available; (e) identifying a second audio segment corresponding to a near-hit cache entry in the render cache; and (f) processing the second audio segment into a third audio segment that is substantially similar to the first audio segment. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130000464 | Musical measurement stimuli - Systems and method for performing adaptive audio signal processing using music as a measurement stimulus signal. A musical stimuli generator may be used to generate musical stimulus signals composed to provide a stimulus with a spectrum that is substantially dense, and ideally white or pink, over a selected frequency range, so that all frequencies of interest are stimulated. The musical stimuli generator may generate melodically pleasing musical stimulus signals using music clips that include any of: a chromatic sequence, a chromatic sequence including chromatic tones over a plurality of octaves, a chromatic sequence including chromatic tones over a selected plurality of octaves, or an algorithmically composed chromatic sequence, to cover a selected frequency range. The musical stimulus signal may be generated as sound into the environment of use. An audio input picks up the sound from the environment, and a sound processor uses the received musical stimulus signal to determine a transfer function. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130000465 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMING CHARACTER STRINGS AND MUSICAL INPUT - Systems and methods for transforming character strings and musical input are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for transforming character strings into musical output may include executing instructions stored in memory via a processor to determine a scheme for converting character strings into musical output, receive the character string, parse the character string into character segments, and convert the character segments into individual musical notes according to the scheme to create the musical output. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130000466 | MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION - Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold value; identify a change in amplitude information from the audio signal that exceeds a second threshold value; and generate a note onset event, each note onset event representing a time location in the audio signal of at least one of an identified change in the frequency information that exceeds the first threshold value or an identified change in the amplitude information that exceeds the second threshold value. The generation of note onset events and other information from the audio input signal may be used to extract note pitch, note value, tempo, meter, key, instrumentation, and other score representation information. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130000467 | Intervalgram Representation of Audio for Melody Recognition - A system, method, and computer readable storage medium generates an audio fingerprint for an input audio clip that is robust to differences in key, instrumentation, and other performance variations. The audio fingerprint comprises a sequence of intervalgrams that represent a melody in an audio clip according pitch intervals between different time points in the audio clip. The fingerprint for an input audio clip can be compared to a set of reference fingerprints in a reference database to determine a matching reference audio clip. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130047822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOWING MULTIPLE SINGERS OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS TO JOIN IN A SAME SONG SIMULTANEOUSLY - Singing systems and methods are provided for allowing multiple singers of different environments to join in a same song simultaneously. In one embodiment, a singer system is provided. The system comprises a centralized system to control songs playing on different mobile devices; a first mobile device held by a first user; a second mobile device held by a second user; a location detecting device included in the first mobile device to determine a background that should be displayed on the first mobile device; and a language detector included in the first mobile device to detect current language in accordance with the first user's voice; a speed detector included in the first mobile device to detect current speed of song sung currently by the first user. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130074679 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATING DEVICE, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, a CPU identifies musical notation data to which music playing data corresponds, and determines whether the musical notation data has been played using a right-hand, a left-hand, or both hands. When the pitch of the identified musical notation data and the pitch of the music playing data match, the CPU sets a clear flag in the identified musical notation data to “1” to indicate that the note has been correctly played. Then, the CPU extracts the number of occurrences and the number of times cleared for each musical performance technique type, and acquires an achievement level based on the difficulty level of the song by accumulating achievement levels for each musical performance technique type which are calculated based on their accuracy rates acquired from the extracted number of occurrences and number of times cleared and difficulty levels according to their types. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130118336 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example computer of an information processing apparatus that reproduces music composed of one or more tracks is caused to function as: a reproduction section configured to reproduce the music; a meter change section configured to change the meter for reproduction of the music, while the reproduction section is reproducing the music; and a determination section configured to, based on the meter that has been changed, repeatedly determine whether or not to cause the reproduction section to reproduce the next beat supposed to be reproduced in a bar of the music that is currently being reproduced. The reproduction section reproduces the music, based on the result of the determination by the determination section. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125732 | Methods to Create New Melodies and Music From Existing Source - Given an existing piece of music, represented in any form such as midi, sound frequencies, etc, but most notably in the form of sheet music and musical scores and music-xml, methods can be applied to the existing music to create an entirely new sound. While the traditional transposition of music shifts all notes from one key signature to another and essentially produces the same melody in a different key, this method transposes all the notes of an existing composition using a totally different set of transposition rules to produce unique new music. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130125733 | MUSICAL SOUND GENERATOR AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSICAL SOUND BASED ON ELEMENT DATA - In a musical sound generator that generates plural element tones based on plural pieces of element data and generates a musical sound by combining the generated element tones, a selector selects, upon detecting a sound generation control event, one or more pieces of element data among the plural pieces of element data according to the sound generation control event and in the way corresponding to the sound generation type of each of the plural pieces of element data, and a generator generates, in accordance with each of the element data selected by the selector, an element tone having sound characteristics corresponding to the parameter included in the detected sound generation control event and the characteristic control data included in each of the selected element data. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130139673 | Musical Fingerprinting Based on Onset Intervals - Methods, computing devices, and machine readable storage media for generating a fingerprint of a music sample. The music sample may be filtered into a plurality of frequency bands. Onsets in each of the frequency bands may be independently detected. Inter-onset intervals between pairs of onsets within the same frequency band may be determined. At least one code associated with each onset may be generated, each code comprising a frequency band identifier identifying a frequency band in which the associated onset occurred and one or more inter-onset intervals. Each code may be associated with a timestamp indicating when the associated onset occurred within the music sample. All generated codes and the associated timestamps may be combined to form the fingerprint. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130139674 | MUSICAL FINGERPRINTING - A method for fingerprinting an unknown music sample is disclosed. A plurality of known tracks may be segmented into reference samples. A reference fingerprint including a plurality of codes may be generated for each reference sample. An inverted index including, for each possible code value, a list of reference samples having reference fingerprints that contain the respective code value may be generated. An unknown fingerprint including a plurality of codes may be generated from the unknown music sample. A code match histogram may list candidate reference samples and associated scores, each score indicating a number of codes from the unknown fingerprint that match codes in the reference fingerprint. Time difference histograms may be generated for two or more reference samples having the highest scores. A determination may be made whether or not a single reference sample matches the unknown music sample based on a comparison of the time difference histograms. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130174717 | ERGONOMIC ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PSEUDO-STRINGS - An ergonomic, portable, electronic, string-like instrument that utilizes a pseudo-string interface. The pseudo-string interface is tactile for sightless playability and capable of advanced input such as force and pressure sensitivity. The pseudo-strings function to select a note, trigger a selected note, select and play a note on the instrument or an external peripheral. The instrument is played using the techniques of multiple other stringed instruments and the ergonomics allow the user to hold and handle the device consistent with traditional and non-traditional playing techniques familiar to musicians of various instruments. It is internally or externally powered and connects directly to industry-standard musical hardware such as MIDI devices, amplifiers and multi-track recorders. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130192445 | MUSIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A music analysis apparatus has a feature extractor and an analysis processor. The feature extractor generates a time series of feature values from a sequence of notes which is designated as an object of analysis. The analysis processor computes an evaluation index value which indicates a probability that the designated sequence of notes is present in each of a plurality of reference music pieces by applying a probabilistic model to the time series of the feature values generated from the designated sequence of notes. The probabilistic model is generated by machine learning of the plurality of reference music pieces using time series of feature values obtained from the reference music pieces. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130192446 | Multi Channel Digital Wind Instrument - An electronic musical instrument whose operation is similar to a harmonica, and which can be played easily by anyone familiar with a harmonica. The instrument measures positive or negative pressure at the mouthpiece, with a MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical system) pressure sensor, which produces an electronic signal, which is then converted to pre-sampled sounds of a variety of instruments via an on-board synthesizer, and is capable of sending MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) signals to control other electronic musical instruments or devices. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130220102 | Method for Generating a Musical Compilation Track from Multiple Takes - An apparatus for creating a musical composition comprising an audio interface, and audio converter module, and a multi-track compositor module is disclosed. The audio interface operably receives audio from an audio input device and outputting audio to an audio output device. The audio converter module is operably connected to the audio interface to convert audio received via the audio interface into an audio track having one or more partitions. The multi-track compositor module is configured to receive a first audio track and a second audio track and automatically score each partition of the first and second audio tracks based on one or more criteria. The multi-track compositor module is then configured to construct a third audio track from the partitions of the first and second audio tracks based on the scores for each partition. A method is also provided. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130233154 | ASSOCIATION OF A NOTE EVENT CHARACTERISTIC - Some embodiments provide a music editing application that enables a user to compose and edit note characteristics, e.g., via a touch-sensitive display. The GUI can display a portion of a music track including note events. In response to receiving a user selection of a note event and a user indication for editing a note event, the GUI can display a menu providing a list of characteristics. The characteristics can include an option for associating at least one of several virtual instruments or one of several articulations with the note event. Upon receiving a user input indicating a characteristic, the matrix editor can associate the note event with the characteristic based on the user input. The music editing application can allow the user to edit additional note characteristics (e.g., an instrument, an articulation) because of the extended capacity for data associated with each note event. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130233155 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NOTE EVENT ADJUSTMENT - A graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio editing application enables a user to easily and conveniently shift a temporal and/or pitch of a sequence of note events within a musical piece, e.g., via a touch-sensitive display. The GUI displays a set of note events on a matrix grid and a subset of the note events (e.g., selected by the user) on a note events grid that overlaps the matrix grid. The note events grid is moveable with respect to the matrix grid such that the subset of note events is shifted against the remaining note events while the note events within the subset maintain a spatial relationship with respect to each other. Further, the user can shift the note events grid (and the note events therein) to any location within the matrix grid, without unintentionally snapping the note events to a nearest grid location on the matrix grid. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130239781 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A musical instrument includes memory that stores layout information defining regions arranged on a predetermined virtual plane, and a position sensor that detects the position coordinates on the virtual plane of a music playing member that can be held by a player. First, it is determined whether the position coordinates of the music playing member belong to a region arranged on the virtual plane based on the layout information, at a timing at which a specific music playing operations is made. Herein, in a case of having determined as belonging to a region, the generation of sound of a musical note corresponding to this region is instructed, in a case of having determined as not belonging to a region, the layout information stored in the memory is modified in order to modify this region so as to include the position coordinates of the music playing member. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130239782 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - At a timing at which a music playing operation is made by way of a music playing member, it is determined whether the position coordinates of the music playing member belong to any of a plurality of regions arranged on a virtual plane based on layout information store in memory, and in a case of having determined as belonging to the region, it is determined whether the pitch angle of the music playing member detected by way of a pitch angle sensor belongs to the pitch angle range corresponding to the region, and in the case of having determined as belonging to the pitch angle range corresponding to the region, the generation of a sound of a musical note corresponding to the region is instructed. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130239783 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130239784 | PERFORMANCE APPARATUS, A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PERFORMANCE APPARATUS AND A PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A performance apparatus prevents a player's unintentional motion from being detected as a playing, thereby generating no sound, when the player plays a virtual musical instrument. The performance apparatus has a player operated stick, a ROM for storing layout information, which correlates plural areas set on a pickup-image plane to tone colors, respectively, an image sensor for continuously taking pickup images of a subject including the stick, and a CPU | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130239785 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE DEVICE AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a musical performance device capable of changing layout information, such as information regarding the arrangement of a virtual musical instrument set, by an intuitive operation. In the present invention, when position coordinates detected at a shot timing are within one of the areas of a plurality of virtual pads, a CPU designates a virtual pad in this area as a target of positional change. Then, the CPU determines a position where the virtual pad designated as a target of positional change is placed by this positional change, based on position coordinates detected at shot timings, and changes the position of the virtual pad designated as a target of positional change to the determined position. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130263719 | Using Music to Motivate a User During Exercise - A method for motivating physical performance through music includes the acts of presenting a musical rendition to a user while concurrently receiving workout information. The workout information includes one or both of a current performance level of the user or a current geographical characteristic being traversed by the user. The method further includes modifying the musical rendition based on one or both of the current performance level of the user or the current geographical characteristic being traversed by the user. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130269504 | Music Application Systems and Methods - Game systems according to various embodiments are adapted to allow users to assemble an instrument performance for a particular song by: ( | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130276618 | KEYBOARD SYSTEM FOR MULTI-STUDENT TRAINING AND VISUALIZATION - Embodiments generally relate to providing a multi-user keyboard system. In one embodiment, a multi-user keyboard system comprises a display screen, a first keyboard apparatus, a second keyboard apparatus, and one or more digital processors, all operably connected together. The display screen is viewable simultaneously by first and second users of the first and second keyboard apparatuses. An image directly related to the use of at least one of the keyboard apparatuses by a corresponding user is displayed on the display screen by at least one of the one or more digital processors. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130276619 | MUSICAL SCORE PLAYING DEVICE AND MUSICAL SCORE PLAYING PROGRAM - Preparation of playing information having correct note values is made possible even if tuplet symbols are not written in a musical score. A prescribed measure time calculating means a measure playing time calculating means a comparing means comparing the calculated prescribed measure time and the measure playing time, and a note value correcting means inferring that a tuplet is present within the measure if the prescribed measure time and the measure playing time are not matched and correcting the sound emission timings and the note value correcting means includes a measure note sequence recording means storing a note sequence, a grouping means grouping the notes within the measure according to each beat, and a tupleting process means performing a tupleting process of changing the note values of the grouped notes based on a relationship of the playing time of the grouped notes and the reference time of a single beat. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130284000 | MUSIC NOTE POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, MUSIC NOTE POSITION DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, a CPU detects bar lines in a musical score image to divide at each bar line, and obtains the layout range of music notes in each measure obtained by the division. Subsequently, the CPU estimates the position of each music note in the obtained layout range by using music note data, and detects a matching value and a detected position of a music note at the estimated position as position candidates. Then, the CPU excludes a musically improper position candidate from among the detected position candidates, and determines the detected position of a position candidate having the highest matching coefficient among the remaining position candidates as the position of the music note. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130305903 | SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE DEVICE AUDIO PLAYBACK AND INTERACTION - A musical playback amusement system is disclosed. A primary audio track defined by a plurality of time-sequence audio data elements and associated synchronization identifiers are loaded and played back on a first interactive device. A second interactive device is in communication with the first interactive device to receive playback synchronization commands that coordinates playback of a secondary track loaded on the second interactive device. The synchronization identifiers in the primary track are transmitted from the first to the second interactive device as the playback synchronization commands in coordination with the playback of the primary audio track. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305904 | Music Analysis Apparatus - A music analysis apparatus calculates a similarity index based on an edit distance between a designated sequence of notes designated by a user and a reference sequence of notes of a reference piece of music. The edit distance is calculated by setting a substitution cost between a first note in the designated sequence of notes and a second note in the reference sequence of notes to a first value when one of the first note and the second note corresponds to any of a plurality of notes contained in a tolerance interval containing the other of the first note and the second note, and by setting the substitution cost to a second value different from the first value when one of the first note and the second note does not correspond to any of the plurality of notes contained in the tolerance interval. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305905 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENABLING FLEXIBLE SOUND COMPOSITION UTILITIES - A computer system for enabling generation/controlling/modification of sound elements is provided. A computer program defines a sound engine. The sound engine includes or is linked to one or more musical composition interfaces that enable one or more users to access a music generator/controller/modifier utility (“music generator”), so as to graphically map one or more musical notes by tracing one or more Bezier paths defined that are processable by the music generator so as to define the four fundamental note qualities: Tone, pitch, volume and duration. The music generator enables user manipulation of the Bezier paths, including touch input modification of the paths (e.g. dragging, forming etc.) that modify fundamental qualities of the corresponding note. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130312588 | VIRTUAL AUDIO EFFECTS PEDAL AND CORRESPONDING NETWORK - A method of playing a digital sound clip, including creating a digital sound clip, and producing, by an amplifier, the digital sound clip in response to a hitting of the note on a guitar. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130340595 | Methods, Systems, and Media for Performing Visualized Quantitative Vibrato Analysis - Methods, systems, and media for performing visualized quantitative vibrato analysis are provided. In some embodiments, a method for analyzing musical vibrato in an audio file is provided, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, a target note from a user; receiving, using the hardware processor, a time-domain signal representing a piece of music comprising a plurality of notes, wherein the plurality of notes include the target note and the target note is played with a vibrato effect; converting, using the hardware processor, the time-domain signal to a frequency-domain signal; determining, using the hardware processor, a plurality of changes in frequency and intensity of the vibrato effect over time based on the frequency-domain signal; determining, using the hardware processor, a target frequency corresponding to the target note; and displaying, on a display, data about the changes in frequency and intensity of the vibrato effect over time and data about the target frequency. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140000440 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, MODIFYING, INTERACTING WITH AND PLAYING MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140000441 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140000442 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140013928 | CONTENT DATA REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND A SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM - A reproduction apparatus ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140020546 | Note Sequence Analysis Apparatus - A note sequence analysis apparatus calculates a similarity index based on similarity between a designated sequence of notes designated by a user and a reference sequence of notes for each of a plurality of reference pieces of music, then selects a reference piece of music from among the plurality of reference pieces of music based on the similarity index calculated for each of the plurality of reference pieces of music, and specifies an evaluation index of the designated sequence of notes based on the similarity index calculated for the selected reference piece of music. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140033900 | System and Method for Connecting and Controlling Musical Related Instruments Over Communication Network - A communication system provides connection, configuration, and control of a musical instrument. A musical instrument includes a first communication link disposed on the musical instrument. Various music related accessories, such as a speaker, effects pedal, computer, mobile communication device, and synthesizer, includes a second communication link. A communication link transmits and receives the audio signal and control data between the musical instrument and accessories through the first and second communication links. A controller receives the audio signal and control data for configuring and controlling the device. The communication link is further connected to a computer, mobile communication device, and server through a communication network. A web server interface is coupled to the communication link for user selection and viewing of the control data in human perceive form. A user control interface with one or more webpages is connected to the communication link for configuring the musical instrument and accessories. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140047971 | MUSIC INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND MUSIC INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A music information display control apparatus includes one or more processors configured to display, on a display device, a musical note sequence image in which a musical note iconic image of each musical note is disposed in a musical score area where a time axis is set. The display controller disposes an operation iconic image which accepts an instruction from a user in a vicinity of the musical note iconic image, and changes a display length or a display position of the musical note iconic image in a direction of the time axis according to an instruction to move the operation iconic image. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140053710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFORMING AN AUDIO INPUT TO A MUSICAL KEY - A system and method for conforming an audio input to a musical key. Audio input is received and the musical key is determined. Sequentially for each consecutive note, a pitch value for each note and an interval between each preceding and subsequent note is determined; alternative subsequent notes based on the musical key and the pitch value of the subsequent note are determined; each interval between each alternative subsequent note and each respective note of the alternative subsequent notes corresponding to the preceding note is scored based on the interval between the preceding note and the subsequent note of the audio input; and a best interval is selected for each alternative subsequent note. A best-match note is selected for each note of the audio input based on the best intervals of all the notes, and each audio input note is conformed to a frequency of the best-match note. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140076124 | SONG LENGTH ADJUSTMENT - A system for automatic rearrangement of a musical composition includes a process of assigning metadata to an existing piece of music to divide it into sections and identify sections of the same type, and logic to remove and rearrange sections to produced a customized playback with a desired duration and additional options for including or removing specific sections or instruments under the control of a user. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140076125 | ADJUSTMENT OF SONG LENGTH - A system for automatic rearrangement of a musical composition includes a process of assigning metadata to an existing piece of music to divide it into sections and identify sections of the same type, and logic to remove and rearrange sections to produced a customized playback with a desired duration and additional options for including or removing specific sections or instruments under the control of a user. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140076126 | DYNAMIC DIATONIC INSTRUMENT - A musical instrument comprising buttons for playing notes is disclosed, wherein the buttons are arranged in an isomorphic layout consisting of rows and columns, characterized by means for choosing between a diatonic and a chromatic layout of the buttons and by means for choosing between different keys and scales. The buttons can be velocity and/or pressure sensitive, they can be backlit in different colors and they can have a dynamic note information thereon. When the layout is diatonic, the scales are arranged horizontally in rows, the rows being vertically spaced in relative fourths: when the layout is chromatic, the buttons corresponding to the scale notes of the selected key are lit in way different from the other keys. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140083279 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL MOMENTUM BASED ON USER INPUT - A computer-implemented method including generating a user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display configured to generate a virtual dual flywheel system for modulating a lifecycle of a musical note or chord. The dual flywheel system (DFS) includes a first VFS and a second VFS, where the first virtual flywheel system series connected to the second virtual flywheel system such that an output of the first virtual flywheel system is coupled to an input of the second virtual flywheel system. Upon receiving a user input on the user interface, the dual flywheel system determines a virtual momentum for the first virtual flywheel based on the user input and a predetermined mass coefficient of the first virtual flywheel system, and determines a virtual momentum for the second virtual flywheel based on the virtual momentum of the first virtual flywheel system and a predetermined mass coefficient of the second virtual flywheel. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140083280 | DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTIC OF A PLAYED NOTE ON A VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT - A user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display for a virtual musical instrument comprising a plurality of chord touch regions configured in a predetermined sequence, each chord touch region corresponding to a chord in a musical key and being divided into a plurality of separate touch zones, the plurality of chord touch regions defining a predetermined set of chords, where each of the plurality of separate touch zones in each region is associated with one or more preselected MIDI files stored in a computer-readable medium. Each of the plurality of touch zones is configured to detect one or more of a plurality of touch gesture articulations including at least one of a legato articulation, a pizzicato articulation, or a staccato articulation. The one or more of the plurality of touch gesture articulations determines the preselected MIDI file associated with each of the plurality of separate touch zones. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140096667 | System and Method of Storing and Accessing Musical Performance on Remote Server - A musical system uses a musical instrument with a first communication link and music related accessory with a second communication link for transmitting and receiving the audio signal and control data. A controller within the musical instrument or music related accessory is coupled to the first communication link for receiving control data to control operation of the musical instrument and transmitting an audio signal originating from the musical instrument through the first communication link as a cloud storage recording on a server connected to the first communication link. The cloud storage recording is initiated by detecting motion of the musical instrument or presence of the audio signal. The cloud storage recording is terminated a predetermined period of time after detecting no motion of the musical instrument or absence of the audio signal. A user control interface configures the musical instrument and the music related accessory. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140102285 | Recording System for Ensemble Performance and Musical Instrument Equipped With The Same - An automatic player piano is equipped with a recording system equipped with a sequencer, to which event data codes for note-on and note-off events and a digital external audio signal expressing singer's voice are supplied; the sequencer supplements duration data codes to the event data codes, and produces RIFF audio data codes expressing the voice; and respectively stores the event data codes and duration data codes and the RIFF audio data codes in a standard MIDI file and a RIFF file. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140137721 | METHOD OF PLAYING CHORD INVERSIONS ON A VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT - A user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display for a virtual musical instrument comprising a plurality of chord touch regions configured in a predetermined sequence, each chord touch region corresponding to a chord in a musical key and being divided into a plurality of separate touch zones, the plurality of chord touch regions defining a predetermined set of chords, where each of the plurality of separate touch zones in each region is associated with one or more preselected MIDI files stored in a computer-readable medium. In some embodiments, the touch zones are configured to provide different harmonic configurations of a base chord associated with the chord touch region. Some harmonic configurations provide progressively wider harmonic ranges across each adjacent touch zone. Other harmonic configurations can provide chords with a progressively higher relative pitch across each adjacent touch zone. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140157969 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSIC - A method for composing a musical is carried out by identifying spectral data characterizing a selected chemical composition, said spectral data representing a plurality of transmittance peaks for the selected chemical composition in a spectral range (e.g., a wave number range), including identifying the spectral range and transmittance values and positions of a sequence of transmittance peaks within the spectral range; assigning a melody duration to the identified spectral range; generating a sequence of musical tones by assigning the identified transmittance values to musical tones to the sequence of transmittance peaks; and assigning a duration to each musical tone. A computer-readable medium includes code for carrying out the method on a general-purpose computer. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140157970 | Mobile Music Remixing - A music remix application for use with mobile phones with an embodiment providing reconfigurable tracks and musical compositions generated from said reconfigurable tracks. Said embodiment provides a plurality of tracks that may be suitably remixed to create a new musical composition and make such composition available for playback over a network. In some embodiments, the user may select a sample musical composition having tracks with particular user-configured settings and may adjust said settings for each track until the user deems the musical composition complete. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140174279 | COMPOSITION USING CORRELATION BETWEEN MELODY AND LYRICS - Disclosed are ways to generate a melody. Currently, no algorithm exists for automatically composing a melody based on music lyrics. However, according to some recent studies, within a song, there usually exists a correlation between a song's notes and a song's lyrics wherein a melody can be generated based on such correlation. Disclosed herein, are systems, methods and algorithms that consider the correlation between a song's lyrics and a song's notes to compose a melody. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140190335 | Music and Sound that Varies from One Playback to Another Playback - A method and apparatus for the creation and playback of music and/or sound, so that sound sequences are generated that vary from one playback to another playback. In one embodiment, during composition creation, artist(s) may define how the composition may vary from playback to playback using visually interactive display(s). The artist's definition may be embedded into a composition dataset. During playback, a composition data set may be processed by a playback device and/or a playback program, so that each time the composition is played-back a unique version may be generated. Variability during playback may include: the variable selection of alternative sound segment(s); variable editing of sound segment(s) during playback processing; variable placement of sound segment(s) during playback processing; the spawning of group(s) of alternative sound segments from initiating sound segment(s); and the combining and/or mixing of alternative sound segments in one or more sound channels. MIDI-like variable compositions and the variable use of sound segments comprised of a timed sequence of MIDI-like commands are also disclosed. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140202314 | TEMPO-ADAPTIVE PATTERN VELOCITY SYNTHESIS - A method of adjusting the presentation of music is provided. In the method, a sequence of musical notes is presented by a first music presenting device. A critical beat indicator defining a time within the sequence of musical notes for a critical beat point is received. An isolation indicator defining a period for note isolation for the sequence of musical notes is received. A velocity coefficient is calculated by a processor for each note of the sequence of musical notes. The velocity coefficient is calculated as a function of the defined time and the defined period for note isolation. The sequence of musical notes is presented by a second music presenting device using the calculated velocity coefficient. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208921 | ENHANCING MUSIC - Embodiments generally relate to enhancing music. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a sound input, extracting a primary melody from the sound input, and converting the primary melody into a graphical representation. The method also includes generating a plurality of derivative melodies, where each derivative melody is derived from the primary melody. The method also includes enabling a user to select one or more of the derivative melodies to be played with the primary melody. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140208922 | Methods and Systems for an Object-Oriented Arrangement of Musical Ideas - An electronic device and a method for playing a plurality of audio objects is provided. The method includes displaying the plurality of audio objects on a display, each audio object being displayed at a location having a horizontal component and a vertical component, wherein the location of each audio object is changeable by a user. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140230629 | Using Sound-Segments to Find & Act-Upon a Composition - A method, apparatus and system that enables a user to find and act-upon a sound-containing composition, in a group of compositions. One or more sound-segments, which are intended to prompt a user's memory, may be associated with each composition in a group of compositions. A recognition sound-segment may include a portion of its associated composition, which is more recognizable to users than the beginning part of its associated composition. A recognition-segment may contain one or more highly recognizable portion(s) of a composition. When the user is trying to locate or select a particular composition, the recognition-segments are navigated and played-back to the user, based upon a user-device context/mode. When a user recognizes the desired composition from its recognition-segment, the user may initiate a control action to playback; arrange; and/or act-upon, the composition that is associated with the currently playing recognition-segment. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140230630 | Simultaneously Playing Sound-Segments to Find & Act-Upon a Composition - A method, apparatus and system that enables a user to find and act-upon a sound-containing composition, in a group of compositions. One or more sound-segments, which are intended to prompt a user's memory, may be associated with each composition in a group of compositions. A recognition sound-segment may include a portion of its associated composition, which is more recognizable to users than the beginning part of its associated composition. A recognition-segment may contain one or more highly recognizable portion(s) of a composition. When the user is trying to locate or select a particular composition, the recognition-segments are navigated and played-back to the user, based upon a user-device context/mode. When a user recognizes the desired composition from its recognition-segment, the user may initiate a control action to playback; arrange; and/or act-upon, the composition that is associated with the currently playing recognition-segment. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140230631 | Using Recognition-Segments to Find and Act-Upon a Composition - A method, apparatus and system that enables a user to find and act-upon a sound-containing composition, in a group of compositions. One or more sound-segments, which are intended to prompt a user's memory, may be associated with each composition in a group of compositions. A recognition sound-segment may include a portion of its associated composition, which is more recognizable to users than the beginning part of its associated composition. A recognition-segment may contain one or more highly recognizable portion(s) of a composition. When the user is trying to locate or select a particular composition, the recognition-segments are navigated and played-back to the user, based upon a user-device context/mode. When a user recognizes the desired composition from its recognition-segment, the user may initiate a control action to playback; arrange; and/or act-upon, the composition that is associated with the currently playing recognition-segment. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140260908 | PROVIDING INPUT/OUPUT MODULES - Embodiments generally relate to processing music. In one embodiment, a system includes a base and one or more structures coupled to the base, where the one or more structures form one or more respective bays in the base. The system also includes one or more input/output (I/O) modules configured to be removably received into the one or more bays, where the one or more I/O modules are operable to provide control information. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140260909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND CREATION OF MUSIC - A method and system for analyzing patterns in the relationships of notes of an input piece of music. The method comprises generating a set of the most frequently occurring note pitches in ascending pitch order that matches an interval pattern, and detecting out-of-key pitches that lie outside of this interval pattern. One or more potential key sequence bifurcations are identified which represent a list of possible key sequences according to forwards and backwards analysis. By finding patterns of repetition in the chordal sequences that may be generated according to these key sequence bifurcations, a key sequence that allows the most frequently recurring chord sequences may be chosen. Chord sequences may be analyzed by using ghost chords, temporary harmonic structures that are created, updated and finalized over time according to a combination of essential and inessential note fragments. The method further comprises identifying non-harmony pitches according to the analyzed chord sequence. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140290466 | ERGONOMIC ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PSEUDO-STRINGS - An ergonomic, portable, electronic, string-like instrument that utilizes a pseudo-string interface. The pseudo-string interface is tactile for sightless playability and capable of advanced input such as force and pressure sensitivity. The pseudo-strings function to select a note, trigger a selected note, select and play a note on the instrument or an external peripheral. The instrument is played using the techniques of multiple other stringed instruments and the ergonomics allow the user to hold and handle the device consistent with traditional and non-traditional playing techniques familiar to musicians of various instruments. It is internally or externally powered and connects directly to industry-standard musical hardware such as MIDI devices, amplifiers and multi-track recorders. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140305287 | Musical Performance Evaluation Device, Musical Performance Evaluation Method And Storage Medium - In the present invention, a CPU obtains the number of notes for each skill type from note data included in a phrase segment for which musical performance input has been performed, compares the note data included in the phase segment for which the musical performance input has been performed and musical performance data inputted by the musical performance so as to obtain the number of correctly played notes for each skill type, and accumulates evaluation values for the respective skill types each found by multiplying an accuracy rate for each skill type obtained from the obtained number of notes and the obtained number correctly played notes for each skill type by a skill value of each type so as to obtain an overall musical performance evaluation value. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140318347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURE AND RENDERING OF PERFORMANCE ON SYNTHETIC STRING INSTRUMENT - Synthetic multi-string musical instruments have been developed for capturing and rendering musical performances on handheld or other portable devices in which a multi-touch sensitive display provides one of the input vectors for an expressive performance by a user or musician. Visual cues may be provided on the multi-touch sensitive display to guide the user in a performance based on a musical score. Alternatively, or in addition, uncued freestyle modes of operation may be provided. In either case, it is not the musical score that drives digital synthesis and audible rendering of the synthetic multi-string musical instrument. Rather, it is the stream of user gestures captured at least in part using the multi-touch sensitive display that drives the digital synthesis and audible rendering. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140318348 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER DEVICE, SOUND REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM - To preferably identify a piece of music corresponding to an input sound signal. Continuous input sound signals are converted into a predetermined characteristic amount sequence. A checking process of the characteristic amount sequence against music information is sequentially executed when a predetermined quantity of the characteristic amount sequence is accumulated and a piece of music having a matching degree greater than a threshold value is conclusively identified. In this case, since the conversion of the continuous input sound signals into a predetermined characteristic amount sequence and the execution of the checking process of the characteristic amount sequence against music information are executed in parallel, a music identification having a great real-time ability can be performed. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140338515 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING REPRESENTATIVE SEGMENTS FROM MUSIC - A method for extracting the most representative segments of a musical composition, represented by an audio signal, according to which the audio signal is preprocessed by a set of preprocessors, each if which is adapted to identify a rhythmic pattern. The output of the preprocessors that provided the most periodic or rhythmical patterns in the musical composition selected and the musical composition is divided into bars with rhythmic patterns, while iteratively checking and scoring their quality and detecting a section that is a sequence of bars with score above a predetermined threshold. Checking and scoring is iteratively repeated until all sections are detected. Then similarity matrices between all bars that belong to the musical composition are constructed, based on MFCCs of the processed sound, chromograms and the rhythmic patterns. Then equivalent classes of similar sections are extracted along the musical composition. Substantial transitions between sections represented as blocks in the similarity matrices are collected and a representative segment is selected from each class with the highest number of sections. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140366710 | AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS - Apparatus for audio processing comprises: a beat tracking module for identifying beat time instants in an audio signal and a downbeat identifier for identifying downbeats occurring at beat time instants, each downbeat corresponding to the start of a musical bar or measure. A pattern identifier identifies two or more adjacent bars or measures containing musical characteristics which repeat within the audio signal, the pattern identifier being configured to: generate for each downbeat a plurality of scores using respective analysis methods for indicating different characteristics within the audio signal at the downbeat; combine the scores for each downbeat; and identify based on the combined scores non-adjacent downbeats that correspond to the start of a musical pattern. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150007708 | DETECTING BEAT INFORMATION USING A DIVERSE SET OF CORRELATIONS - A beat analysis module is described for determining beat information associated with an audio item. The beat analysis module uses an Expectation-Maximization (EM) approach to determine an average beat period, where correlation is performed over diverse representations of the audio item. The beat analysis module can determine the beat information in a relative short period of time. As such, the beat analysis module can perform its analysis together with another application task (such as a game application task) without disrupting the real time performance of that application task. In one application, a user may select his or her own audio items to be used in conjunction with the application task. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150027299 | SWAP DIVISI PROCESS - A divisi process in which different samplings are provided of full section, half a section, quarter section, etc. When a first note on input is received, the note is assigned to the full section. When a subsequent note on input is received, it is assigned to a half section. At that time, the volume of the full section may be reduced. Upon receiving further note on inputs, the notes may be assigned to another half section or to a quarter section depending on the number of notes being played simultaneously. The volume of notes being played is adjusted when a new note is added. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033932 | MUSIC GENERATOR - Techniques are disclosed relating to generating music content. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more musical attributes based on external data and generating music content based on the one or more musical attributes. Generating the music content may include selecting from stored sound loops or tracks and/or generating new tracks based on the musical attributes. Selected or generated sound loops or tracks may be layered to generate the music content. Musical attributes may be determined in some embodiments based on user input (e.g., indicating a desired energy level), environment information, and/or user behavior information. Artists may upload tracks, in some embodiments, and be compensated based on usage of their tracks in generating music content. In some embodiments, a method includes generating sound and/or light control information based on the musical attributes. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040742 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTILAYERED MUSIC PLAYBACK BASED ON COMMANDS AND ATTRIBUTES - Method and apparatus of a device for playback of a multilayered media file is provided. The method comprises receiving one or more attributes of a musical program of a multilayered media file comprising a plurality of musical programs. The method also comprises receiving a command related to the musical program of the multilayered media file. The method also comprises outputting the multilayered media file based on the attributes and the command. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150047494 | PORTABLE MUSICAL KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT - Embodiments provide a portable musical instrument including an electronic musical keyboard and a monitor. The monitor is rotatably coupled to the musical keyboard such that the monitor has a use position and a storage position. In use position, the monitor forms an angle of at least about 90 degrees with respect to the musical keyboard. Embodiment of the musical keyboard includes less than three and more than one octave of keys, each key approximately corresponds in size, shape, frequency, and weight to a conventional piano key. The musical keyboard is configured to produce a signal characterizing the depression of any its keys. The monitor visually displays piano staffs and musical notations, which musical notations may be derived from the signal produced by the musical keyboard. In some embodiments, a printing device may print, on paper, musical notations derived from the signal produced by the musical keyboard. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150047495 | AUDIO SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - An adaptive audio system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The audio system is operable to retrieve a music item from a storage device, classify the music item in a predefined music category the basis of a determined audio profile, select a category from a plurality of predefined music categories on the basis of a current driving behavior of the driver, and output a music item included in the selected category via an output device. The driving behavior of the driver is understood to mean the mode or style in which the driver drives. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150053067 | PROVIDING MUSICAL LYRICS AND MUSICAL SHEET NOTES THROUGH DIGITAL EYEWEAR - Described herein is an optical device for presenting music information. The optical device identifies an indication that a music piece is to begin playback. The optical device identifies music information associated with the music piece. The optical device presents the music information in synchronization with playback of the music piece. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150059557 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, TOUCH DETECTION APPARATUS, TOUCH DETECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a touch detection apparatus | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150059558 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CUSTOMIZED MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS - Systems and methods for creating customized music arrangements based on multiple criteria are provided herein. A user selects a musical composition and provides ensemble information about an ensemble, such as the number of instruments, instrument types, and playing ability of each member of an ensemble to the system. When inputted instrumentation or proficiency does not work within the pre-determined parameters of the musical selection, notification is provided to the user, and the system rebalances the arrangement to accommodate the proficiencies of the ensemble. In embodiments, the system is configured to transpose portions of a musical score into a range suitable for a substitute instrument or a player of limited skill. The user receives a conductor's score arrangement that has been adapted for each member of the ensemble and tailored to balance the entire ensemble. The system is capable of receiving ensemble information and creating customized musical arrangements in real-time. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150068388 | SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE DEVICE AUDIO PLAYBACK AND INTERACTION - A musical playback amusement system is disclosed. A primary audio track defined by a plurality of time-sequence audio data elements and associated synchronization identifiers are loaded and played back on a first interactive device. A second interactive device is in communication with the first interactive device to receive playback synchronization commands that coordinates playback of a secondary track loaded on the second interactive device. The synchronization identifiers in the primary track are transmitted from the first to the second interactive device as the playback synchronization commands in coordination with the playback of the primary audio track. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150075355 | SOUND SYNTHESIZER - A sound synthesizer | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082974 | MUSIC SCORE DISPLAY DEVICE, MUSIC SCORE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - The CPU in a music score display device includes: a source region setting unit that sets a source region based on a desired portion designated in a music score displayed on a screen, the source region of the music score being an object to be enlarged and displayed; a display destination region setting unit that sets a display destination region of the screen, the display destination region corresponding to the source region; and a display control unit that extracts the music score in the source region, and enlarges and displays the extracted music score in the display destination region on the screen. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150090099 | Method for Transforming a Poem into a Song - This invention comprises a method to transform a poem into a song. The client first composes a poem or a passage. Next, the client goes to the “Make Your Poem a Song” website: http:www.makeyourpoemasong.com (hereinafter “MYPS”). The client then populates the unique specification menus on the website. Selections from the specification menus allow the client to mold each and every aspect of the song creation process. After the client selects each song aspect, the MYPS coordinator chooses a composer to write the song based on the song chosen song characteristics. The composer then creates a song based on the characteristics chosen by the client. When the composer has created the “blueprint” of the song, the composer releases a small portion of the song to the client through the MYPS coordinator. The client then has 48 hours to comment on the song. If client has no comment, the composer creates, mixes and masters the song in final form, depending on the package chosen. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150101474 | STORAGE MEDIUM AND TONE GENERATION STATE DISPLAYING APPARATUS - When a processor accepts an input of plural notes to be assigned for tone generation, according to a predetermined note determining rule called “assignment type”, the processor selects one or more notes to be sounded in each of plural parts from the accepted notes. The processor controls a display unit to display, for each of the plural parts, the accepted plural notes to be assigned for tone generation. At this time, non-selected one or more notes in respective parts are displayed in one style, and the selected one or more notes in the respective parts are displayed in another style different from the one style. Alternatively, the plural notes to be assigned for tone generation are displayed in one style, and, for each of the plural parts, the selected one or more notes are displayed in another style different from the one style. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150101475 | Method of Instrument Simulation - The invention relates to a method of offline instrument simulation of a field instrument, wherein at least one parameter of the field instrument is visualized and a parameterization of the field instrument is made possible and the instrument simulation is generated on the basis of an instrument description file, and wherein the instrument simulation is performed in a browser. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150107442 | MUSIC REPRODUCING APPARATUS - In a music reproducing apparatus for converting audio data into audio data of different data format so as to reproduce it, gapless reproduction and cross-fade reproduction are performed in a switching manner, and generation of a noise at time of the gapless reproduction is repressed. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150128788 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING A DURATION OF A SONG - Methods, systems and devices may automatically determine splice points within a song to alter a length of the song. Possible splice points may be obtained by comparing different portions of the song with each other. After obtaining possible splice points, the song may be shortened by deleting/skipping portions of the song between two paired splice points. Alternatively the song may be lengthened. The altered song may be used with an audio-visual presentation, such as a slide show or commercial, or as a ringtone. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150317965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MELODIES - In one embodiment, a system for analyzing melodies is disclosed that may receive data for a musical composition, the data including a sequence of notes that make up a melody contained in the musical composition, and store, in a database, a pitch and a duration for at least one note in the sequence of notes in association with the melody. In addition, the system may determine at least one pitch differential and at least one duration ratio for at least two consecutive notes in the sequence of notes, and store, in the database, the at least one pitch differential and the at least one duration ratio in association with the melody. The system may also generate at least one metric associated with the melody based on the at least one pitch differential and/or the at least one duration ratio. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150364123 | Method and Device for Introducing Human Interactions in Audio Sequences - A method for combining first second audio tracks includes modifying at least one of the two audio tracks; and storing the first and the second audio track in a non-volatile medium, characterized in that the interbeat intervals of the modified first and the second audio track exhibit long-range cross-correlations (LRCC). | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150379974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURE AND RENDERING OF PERFORMANCE ON SYNTHETIC STRING INSTRUMENT - Synthetic multi-string musical instruments have been developed for capturing and rendering musical performances on handheld or other portable devices in which a multi-touch sensitive display provides one of the input vectors for an expressive performance by a user or musician. Visual cues may be provided on the multi-touch sensitive display to guide the user in a performance based on a musical score. Alternatively, or in addition, uncued freestyle modes of operation may be provided. In either case, it is not the musical score that drives digital synthesis and audible rendering of the synthetic multi-string musical instrument. Rather, it is the stream of user gestures captured at least in part using the multi-touch sensitive display that drives the digital synthesis and audible rendering. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160019874 | INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROLS - Embodiments generally relate to processing music. In one embodiment, a system includes a base and one or more structures coupled to the base, where the one or more structures form one or more respective bays in the base. The system also includes one or more input/output (I/O) modules configured to be removably received into the one or more bays, where the one or more I/O modules are operable to provide control information. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160035330 | GENERATING MUSIC FROM IMAGE PIXELS - Musical compositions are generated from image pixels. To do so, pixel values are mapped to musical elements together for creating the musical compositions. Additionally, images are formed from pixels generated from musical compositions. More generally, a computer system creatively generates media using captured media as a source. The system also generates collage images in which individual images are pixels for the collage image. Collages are further generated from text. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160055837 | Music yielder with conformance to requisites - There is disclosed a music yielding system including a controller, an outlet, a tracer, and a portal. The outlet may yield one or more sets of musical notes conforming to one or more requisites. The controller may cause one or more criteria to be set determining conformance of one or more of the sets of musical notes to one or more of the requisites. The tracer may calculate and transmit one or more correlations within one or more of the sets of musical notes. The portal may transfer one or more of the sets of musical note between one or more origins and one or more destinations. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160098978 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MELODIES - In one embodiment, a system for analyzing melodies is disclosed that may receive data for a musical composition, the data including a sequence of notes that make up a melody contained in the musical composition, and store, in a database, a pitch and a duration for at least one note in the sequence of notes in association with the melody. In addition, the system may determine at least one pitch differential and at least one duration ratio for at least two consecutive notes in the sequence of notes, and store, in the database, the at least one pitch differential and the at least one duration ratio in association with the melody. The system may also generate at least one metric associated with the melody based on the at least one pitch differential and/or the at least one duration ratio. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160098980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION OF MUSICAL MEMORIES - A music generating system comprising sensors configured to acquire data sets related to physiological and environmental condition of a user and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory. The computing device is configured to read, by a data acquisition module, the data sets received from the sensors, to perform, by a data analysis module, a value range analysis of the data sets received to normalize the data sets, to map, with the help of the data analysis module, each of the normalized data sets to families of sounds stored in a data store, to create, by the data analysis module, individual music pieces on the basis of a time series analysis and a frequency analysis of the normalized data sets mapped to the families of sounds and to merge, by a music generation module, the individual music pieces to create a final piece of music. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160104469 | MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS METHOD AND MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS DEVICE - A musical-performance analysis device includes: an acquisition section that acquires performance information of a player; a determination section that determines, by comparing the performance information acquired by the acquisition section with reference information indicating a reference of a performance, among performance segments different from one another, a performance segment in which a difference degree between the performance information acquired by the acquisition section and the reference information is large and a performance segment in which the difference degree between the performance information acquired by the acquisition section and the reference information is small; and the specification section that specifies a tendency of the performance on the basis of the difference degree of the performance segment in which the difference degree has been determined to be small by the determination section. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160125856 | Recordings Resulting From Methods For Transcoding Music Notation - Recorded media is produced by a method for transcoding music, according to various aspects of the present invention, includes in any practical order: (a) reading indicia of a plurality of notes, each note having pitch and duration; (b) selecting a reference pitch; (c) determining indicia of tone from the reference pitch and the pitch of each note; and (d) outputting for use by an engraving engine, indicia of an apposite staff and indicia of tones and durations corresponding to the plurality of notes. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125860 | PRODUCTION ENGINE - Embodiments of the present invention provide for the composition of new music based on analysis of unprocessed audio, which may be in the form of melodic hums and rhythmic taps. As a result of this analysis—music information retrieval or MIR—musical features such as pitch and tempo are output. These musical features are then used by a composition engine to generate a new and socially co-created piece of content represented as an abstraction. This abstraction is then used by a production engine to produce audio files that may be played back, shared, or further manipulated. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160133241 | COMPOSITION ENGINE - Embodiments of the present invention provide for the composition of new music based on analysis of unprocessed audio, which may be in the form of melodic hums and rhythmic taps. As a result of this analysis—music information retrieval or MIR—musical features such as pitch and tempo are output. These musical features are then used by a composition engine to generate a new and socially co-created piece of content represented as an abstraction. This abstraction is then used by a production engine to produce audio files that may be played back, shared, or further manipulated. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160148605 | AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION APPARATUS, AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An automatic composition apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit performs a receiving process of receiving a phrase including a plurality of note data items as a received motif and receiving a type of the phrase, a retrieving process of retrieving a phrase set from a phrase set database and a melody generating process of generating a melody based on the retrieved phrase set. The phrase set includes phrases having the same type as the received type and having relatively high matching levels for the received motif. The phrase set database stores a plurality of phrase sets each of which is a combination of a plurality of phrases of different types. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160148606 | AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION APPARATUS, AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An automatic composition apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit performs a note pitch shift process, a matching-level calculating process and a melody generating process. The note pitch shift process performs pitch shift on pitches of individual note data items included in an input phrase. The matching-level calculating process calculates a matching level between a phrase including note data items subjected to the pitch shift and a designated chord progression data item, with reference to a plurality of note connection rules each of which defines a connection relation of consecutive note types, if the pitch shift is performed. The melody generating process generates a melody based on the phrase which includes the note data items subjected to the pitch shift and which is selected based on the calculated matching level. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160189561 | MIXING A VIDEO TRACK WITH VARIABLE TEMPO MUSIC - The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system, method, and apparatus for separating and mixing tracks within music. The system can have a video that is synchronized with the variations in the musical tempo through a variable timing reference track designed and provided for a user of the preselected piece of music that was prerecorded, wherein the designing of the variable timing reference track includes creating a tempo map having variable tempos, rhythms, and beats using notes from the preselected piece of music. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189697 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING SYMPHONY - A symphony playing method using an electronic device includes calculating a distance value between a first GPS device of a first detecting device and a distal terminal of a baton. An angle between a first straight line and a second straight line is calculated. A capturing device is controlled to capture images of hand gestures of a user. Once a music instrument is determined to be currently pointed to by the distal terminal of the baton, according to the first distance value and the calculated angle, and a beat is determined according to the captured images, notes on the symphony is played using a tone of the determined music instrument according to the determined beat. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND CREATION OF MUSIC - A method and system for analyzing patterns in the relationships of notes of an input piece of music. The method comprises generating a set of the most frequently occurring note pitches in ascending pitch order that matches an interval pattern, and detecting out-of-key pitches that lie outside of this interval pattern. One or more potential key sequence bifurcations are identified which represent a list of possible key sequences according to forwards and backwards analysis. By finding patterns of repetition in the chordal sequences that may be generated according to these key sequence bifurcations, a key sequence that allows the most frequently recurring chord sequences may be chosen. Chord sequences may be analyzed by using ghost chords, temporary harmonic structures that are created, updated and finalized over time according to a combination of essential and inessential note fragments. The method further comprises identifying non-harmony pitches according to the analyzed chord sequence. | 06-30-2016 |
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