Interactive digital music recorder and player
AssigneeMediaLab Solutions LLC
InventorAlain Georges
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Abstract
A digital multi-media device provides features for a user unskilled in musical arts or sound handling techniques that provides automatic musical score composition in accordance with contained composition instructions. Stored sound samples and interfaces for obtaining external signals provide signals for merger with visual and sound presentations to obtain altered presentations either time shifted or in real time. In this fashion the user can create simulated radio stations for playback of prearranged and composed audio material. Further, the automatically composed musical score may be mixed with synthesized, digitized signals from the stored sound samples and external signals obtained through the device interfaces.
Claims28
An interactive digital music device providing multiple features for a user, comprising
- programmable memory for storing digital audio and voice samples,
- receivers for obtaining external sound signals,
- means for playing said stored audio and voice samples and external sound signals,
- means for storing automatic musical composition instructions, whereby the user is able to create unique musical compositions, and
- means for mixing external sound signals with said unique musical compositions and stored audio and voice samples to provide altered audio and voice presentations.
An Automatic Composer in a digital multi-media device for composing a musical piece according to automatic composition instructions and for mixing sound samples into it, comprising
- a processor having an input and an output, said processor operating to implement the automatic composition instructions,
- a memory for storing a music database for use in accordance with the automatic composition instructions,
- a second memory for storing the sound samples, said first and second memories being connected to the processor input, a music synthesizer connected to the processor output for control by said processor and providing a synthesizer output, and
- a summation and digital to analog conversion circuit for receiving processor and synthesizer outputs and for providing a summed analog output.
An Automatic Soundtrack Generator in a digital multi-media device that is capable of mixing a signal from an external audio source in a video/audio record and/or play device with an internal audio source containing digitized sound files in accordance with predetermined mixing instructions, comprising
- a processor,
- a memory element connected to said processor for storing mixing the instructions and the digitized sound files,
- a digital to analog conversion circuit for receiving the digitized sound files, and
- a summation circuit for combining the signal from the external audio source with the digitized sound files.
A Virtual Radio in a digital multi-media device that is capable of selecting, according to given criteria, musical files from predetermined sound sources for playing from a speaker, comprising
- a processor providing a digital output,
- a memory element connected to said processor for storing the given criteria and the predetermined sources of musical files, and
- a summation and digital to analog conversion circuit connected to receive said digital output and providing a predetermined analog sound output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.