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US 10,360,887 B2Granted
Musical strum and percussion controller
AssigneeDaniel Moses Schlessinger
InventorDaniel Moses Schlessinger
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Abstract
A controller for musical instrument models is presented, comprising acoustic elements with embedded vibration sensors that the user actuates for example by plucking, strumming, or striking the elements. A vibration sensor attached to each acoustic element is used to generate an excitation signal for musical instrument models. A note input interface can be included so that note input such as MIDI can be used to control the musical pitch of the musical instrument models.
Claims19
A method of generating a musical sound comprising:
- Actuating an acoustic element;
- Actuating a note input apparatus;
- Sending a signal from the acoustic element to a sensor;
- Sending a continuous audio signal from the sensor to a musical instrument model as an excitation signal;
- and
- Sending note data from the note input apparatus to the instrument model as pitch information;
- wherein the acoustic element is strummed over a corrugated surface;
- and
- individual pluck signals from the sensor are separated and sent into separate musical instrument models.
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A musical device comprising:
- An acoustic element;
- a sensor;
- a musical instrument model;
- a note input device capable of accepting note on and off data;
- the acoustic element in communication with the sensor;
- the sensor configured to output a continuous audio signals;
- wherein
- the excitation signal for the musical instrument model is a continuous audio signal received from the sensor;
- the musical instrument model uses note on and off data from the note input device to determine pitch and decay time of the model;
- and
- the musical instrument model can continue to be excited by the continuous audio signal from the sensor and produce audio output even after receiving a note off message from the note input device.
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A musical device comprising:
- an audio looping apparatus;
- an audio signal;
- a note input device capable of accepting note on and off data;
- a musical instrument model;
- wherein
- the audio looping apparatus outputs the audio signal in a loop;
- the excitation signal for the musical instrument model the looped signal received from the audio looping apparatuses;
- and
- the musical instrument model uses note data from the note input apparatus to alter pitch and dampening parameters of the musical instrument model.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.