MIDI mapping system and process for multiple chord and arpeggio triggering

• US 10,262,643 B1
• Filed: 08/09/2018
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zachary Charles Kinter
• Original Assignee: Zachary Charles Kinter
• Inventors: Kinter, Zachary Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Donels, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US16/059,875
• Time in Patent Office: 250 Days
• Field of Search: 84638, 84716
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0066 using a MIDI interface
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/28 to produce arpeggios
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/386 One-finger or one-key chord systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/105 Composing aid, e.g. for supporting creation, edition or modification of a piece of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/185 Arpeggio, i.e. notes played or sung in rapid sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously, e.g. as a chord; Generators therefor, i.e. arpeggiators; Discrete glissando effects on instruments not permitting continuous glissando, e.g. xylophone or piano, with stepwise pitch variation and on which distinct onsets due to successive note triggerings can be heard
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/036 Chord indicators, e.g. displaying note fingering when several notes are to be played simultaneously as a chord
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/126 for graphical editing of individual notes, parts or phrases represented as variable length segments on a 2D or 3D representation, e.g. graphical edition of musical collage, remix files or pianoroll representations of MIDI-like files
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/251 arranged as 2D or 3D arrays; Keyboards ergonomically organised for playing chords or for transposing, e.g. Janko keyboard special keyboards for playing chords, e.g. accordion G10H2230/245
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 5/06 tones generated by frequency multiplication or division of a basic tone

Abstract

Systems and processes that use MIDI mapping technology for multiple chord and arpeggio triggering are disclosed, including a multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping system and process that assigns, selects, and records chord and multi-arpeggio functions into a digital audio workstation (DAW) host program or an internalized sequencer and a two-phase multiple chord and time-delayed arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process for recording a chord progression and enabling multi-arpeggio functions of the chords in the chord progression to be worked on at any time-delayed instance after recording the chord progression. The system divides output from a MIDI controller into chord generators and arpeggiators to allow users to define full chords with a single key selection, while also making immediate or time-delayed single key selections for different arpeggios.

Claims

1. A multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process comprising:

receiving a user selection of a chord-mapped key from a chord generator section of a divided MIDI controller;

receiving a user selection of a particular key in a multi-arpeggio section of the divided MIDI controller;

receiving a selection of a parameter setting associated with a particular arpeggio among a plurality of arpeggios associated with a particular chord that is mapped to the chord-mapped key from the chord generator section of the divided MIDI controller, wherein the particular arpeggio is mapped to the particular key in the multi-arpeggio section of the divided MIDI controller; and

adding the particular chord, the particular arpeggio, and the parameter setting associated with the particular arpeggio to a palette of different patterns exported to a digital audio workstation (DAW) software application.

2. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 1, wherein the MIDI controller comprises a MIDI keyboard.

3. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 2, wherein the chord generator section comprises a first set of physical keys of the MIDI keyboard.

4. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 2, wherein the user selection of the particular key in the multi-arpeggio section of the divided MIDI controller provides access to configurable parameters of a particular arpeggio associated with the particular key.

5. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 1, further comprising receiving user assignments of chord and multi-arpeggio functions to associate with at least one of samples and synthesizers in a digital audio workstation (DAW) software application.

6. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a user interface (UI);

displaying a UI-chord-generator section in the UI;

displaying a UI-multi-arpeggio section in the UI;

displaying, in response to the user selection of the chord-mapped key from the chord generator section of a divided MIDI controller, a corresponding chord-mapped UI key in the UI-chord-generator section of the UI; and

displaying, in response to the user selection of a particular key in the multi-arpeggio section of the divided MIDI controller, a particular corresponding unique arpeggio-mapped UI key in the UI-multi-arpeggio section of the UI.

7. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 1, further comprising displaying a plurality of parameter settings associated with the particular arpeggio.

8. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 7, wherein the parameter setting is a particular selected parameter setting among the plurality of parameter settings associated with the particular arpeggio.

9. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 8, wherein adding the particular chord, the particular arpeggio, and the parameter setting further comprises adding the plurality of parameter settings associated with the particular arpeggio to the palette of different patterns exported to the DAW software application.

10. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 7, further comprising receiving a change of an arpeggio algorithm parameter setting from the plurality of parameter settings associated with the particular arpeggio, wherein adding the particular chord, the particular arpeggio, and the parameter setting further comprises adding the change of the arpeggio algorithm parameter setting to the palette of different patterns exported to the DAW software application.

11. The multiple chord and arpeggio triggering MIDI mapping process of claim 2, wherein the multi-arpeggio section comprises a second set of physical keys of the MIDI keyboard.