Score-directed string retuning and gesture cueing in synthetic in synthetic multi-string musical instrument
AssigneeSmule, Inc.
InventorNick Kruge
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Abstract
Despite practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and applications, truly captivating musical instruments may be synthesized in ways that allow musically expressive performances to be captured and rendered in real-time. Visual cues presented on a multi-touch sensitive display provide the user with temporally sequenced string excitation cues. Note or chord soundings are indicated by user gestures (e.g., pluck-type gestures, strum-type gestures, chord selections, etc.) captured at the multi-touch sensitive display. Those captured gestures, rather than simply the score itself, are used as inputs to a digital synthesis of the musical instrument.
Claims42
A method comprising:
- using a portable computing device as a synthetic multi-string musical instrument;
- retrieving a musical score from storage accessible to the portable computing device, the retrieved musical score including temporally coordinated chord and string tracks;
- presenting string excitation visual cues on a multi-touch sensitive display of the portable computing device in temporal correspondence with the retrieved musical score;
- capturing a stream of user performance gestures on the multi-touch sensitive display, wherein at least some of the captured gestures are indicative of string excitations;
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- audibly rendering the user performance on the portable computing device using the captured gesture stream as an input to a digital synthesis of the synthetic multi-string musical instrument executing on the portable computing device with dynamic string retuning in correspondence with chord selections, wherein the captured string excitation indicative gestures, and not the musical score itself, drives the digital synthesis.
A method comprising:
- using a portable computing device as a synthetic multi-string musical instrument;
- presenting visual cues on a multi-touch sensitive display of the portable computing device relative to respective visually presented strings of the synthetic multi-string musical instrument, the visual cues including both chord and string excitation visual cues presented in temporal correspondence with a musical score read from computer readable media;
- visually presenting on the multi-touch sensitive display a dynamic palette of user selectable chords;
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- capturing gestures on the multi-touch sensitive display, wherein at least some of the captured gestures are indicative of actual chord selections by a user from the dynamic palette, and wherein at least some of the captured gestures are indicative of string excitations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.