Microtonal musical instrument interface device
OwnerKevin D.Y. Changinventor
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Abstract
A microtonal musical instrument interface device between one or more Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controllers and one or more musical instruments comprises a housing and a plurality of potentiometers on a surface of the housing. The potentiometers comprise twelve tuning potentiometers constructed and arranged to correspond to notes of a musical scale, each tuning knob for tuning one of the notes; an offset potentiometer for globally tuning all of the notes by a same amount; and a range potentiometer for setting a maximum tuning range of the tuning potentiometers. A microprocessor in the housing modifies a MIDI data stream received from the one or more MIDI controllers for output to the one or more musical instruments according to a position of the potentiometers.
Claims18
A microtonal musical instrument interface device between one or more Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controllers and one or more musical instruments, comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of potentiometers on a surface of the housing, the potentiometers comprising:
- twelve tuning potentiometers constructed and arranged to correspond to notes of a musical scale, each tuning knob for tuning one of the notes;
- an offset potentiometer for globally tuning all of the notes by a same amount;
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- a range potentiometer for setting a maximum tuning range of the tuning potentiometers;
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- a microprocessor in the housing that modifies a MIDI data stream received from one or more MIDI controllers for output to one or more musical instruments according to a position of the potentiometers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.