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US 11,727,906 B1Granted
System for generating and implementing digital music tuning files
AssigneePandora's Anvil Multimedia Inc.
InventorPark Anderson
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Abstract
A system and method to generate and implement digital tuning files based on p-smooth number sequences for use with a digital musical instrument is provided. A p-smooth number sequence is generated and a subset of p-smooth numbers from the sequence is chosen as a musical octave of musical note frequencies. Each note within the octave is designated as a tonic, and each tonic is used to generate additional musical octaves and corresponding musical note notations. The musical octaves and corresponding musical note notations are stored into the digital memory of the digital musical instrument, and the instrument's native musical note mappings are remapped to the musical octaves and corresponding musical note notations from the digital file.
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A method of modifying an audio output of a digital musical instrument, the method comprising:
- (A) receiving information regarding the digital musical instrument, the information including a tuning file type used by the digital musical instrument, and wherein the digital musical instrument includes memory storing a first set of first musical note notations with each first musical note notation within the first set of first musical note notations correlated to a corresponding first musical note frequency;
- (B) receiving a sequence of p-smooth numbers;
- (C) choosing a subset of the sequence of p-smooth numbers and assigning the subset as a first octave of second musical note frequencies;
- (D) assigning each second musical note frequency within the first octave of second musical note frequencies a corresponding second musical note notation;
- (E) assigning each second musical frequency and its corresponding second musical note notation within the octave of second musical note frequencies as a unique tonic;
- (F) for each tonic, generating a corresponding second octave of third musical note frequencies;
- (G) assigning each third musical note frequency within the second octave of third musical note frequencies a corresponding third musical note notation;
- (H) storing into a digital file of the tuning file type each tonic, each second octave of third musical note frequencies corresponding to each tonic, and each third musical note notation corresponding to each third musical note frequency;
- (I) loading the digital file into the digital musical instrument memory;
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- (J) correlating, within the digital musical instrument memory, each first musical note notation within the digital musical instrument's first set of musical note notations with a corresponding third musical note notation and the third musical note frequency corresponding to the corresponding third musical note notation from the digital file.
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A method of modifying an audio output of a digital musical instrument, the method comprising:
- (A) receiving information regarding the digital musical instrument, the information including a tuning file type used by the digital musical instrument, and wherein the digital musical instrument includes memory storing a first set of first musical note notations with each first musical note notation within the first set of first musical note notations correlated to a corresponding first musical note frequency;
- (B) receiving a sequence of p-smooth numbers;
- (C) choosing a subset of the sequence of p-smooth numbers including a first lower frequency limit, a first upper frequency limit equal to twice the first lower frequency limit, and a set of p-smooth numbers from the sequence of p-smooth numbers between the first lower frequency limit and the first upper frequency limit, and assigning the subset as a first octave of second musical note frequencies;
- (D) assigning each second musical note frequency within the first octave of second musical note frequencies a corresponding second musical note notation;
- (E) assigning each second musical frequency and its corresponding second musical note notation within the octave of second musical note frequencies as a unique tonic;
- (F) for each tonic, generating a corresponding second octave of third musical note frequencies;
- (G) assigning each third musical note frequency within the second octave of third musical note frequencies a corresponding third musical note notation;
- (H) storing into a digital file of the tuning file type each tonic, each second octave of third musical note frequencies corresponding to each tonic, and each third musical note notation corresponding to each third musical note frequency;
- (I) loading the digital file into the digital musical instrument memory;
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- (J) correlating, within the digital musical instrument memory, each first musical note notation within the digital musical instrument's first set of musical note notations with a corresponding third musical note notation and the third musical note frequency corresponding to the corresponding third musical note notation from the digital file.
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A method of modifying an audio output of a digital musical instrument, the method comprising:
- (A) receiving information regarding the digital musical instrument, the information including a tuning file type used by the digital musical instrument, and wherein the digital musical instrument includes memory storing a first set of first musical note notations with each first musical note notation within the first set of first musical note notations correlated to a corresponding first musical note frequency;
- (B) receiving a sequence of p-smooth numbers;
- (C) choosing a subset of the sequence of p-smooth numbers and assigning the subset as a first octave of second musical note frequencies;
- (D) assigning each second musical note frequency within the first octave of second musical note frequencies a corresponding second musical note notation;
- (E) assigning each second musical frequency and its corresponding second musical note notation within the octave of second musical note frequencies as a unique tonic;
- (F) for each tonic, generating a corresponding second octave of third musical note frequencies;
- (G) assigning each third musical note frequency within the second octave of third musical note frequencies a corresponding third musical note notation;
- (H) storing into a digital file of the tuning file type each tonic, each second octave of third musical note frequencies corresponding to each tonic, and each third musical note notation corresponding to each third musical note frequency;
- (I) loading the digital file into the digital musical instrument memory;
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- (J) correlating, within the digital musical instrument memory, each first musical note notation within the digital musical instrument's first set of musical note notations with a corresponding third musical note notation and the third musical note frequency corresponding to the corresponding third musical note notation from the digital file using the steps comprising:
- (J)(1) for each first musical note notation within the digital musical instrument's first set of musical note notations, identifying a corresponding first musical note frequency;
- (J)(2) for each second musical note notation corresponding to each first musical note notation, identifying a corresponding second musical note frequency;
- (J)(3) determining a frequency difference between the corresponding first musical note frequency and the corresponding second musical note frequency;
- (J)(4) adding the frequency difference to the corresponding first musical note frequency and/or subtracting the frequency difference from the corresponding first musical note frequency to determine a mapped musical note frequency;
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- (J)(5) correlating, within the digital musical instrument's memory, each first musical note notation with each corresponding mapped musical note frequency.
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