Electronic musical performance instrument with greater and deeper creative flexibility

• US 20040206226A1
• Filed: 01/15/2004
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Labs Incorporated (Taiyo Pacific Partners LP)
• Original Assignee: Open Labs Incorporated (Taiyo Pacific Partners LP)
• Inventors: Wong, Victor, Negoescu, Craig, Cotten, Lary
• Granted Patent: US 7,692,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/600
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/285 USB, i.e. either using a USB plug as power supply or using the USB protocol to exchange data
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/006 using two or more algorithms of different types to generate tones, e.g. according to tone color or to processor workload

Abstract

An electronic musical performance instrument that provides a user with a wide array of creative choices of operating systems, sound synthesis applications, user interfaces (including those emulating the interface of a conventional musical instrument and electronic control interfaces), supporting infrastructure components such as MIDI cards, sound cards, storage devices thus providing the performance artist with greater and deeper creative flexibility.

Claims

1. An electronic musical performance instrument comprising:

a musical instrument input interface manipulation by a human operator integral with;

electronic circuitry for monitoring the input keys for input by the human operator; and

integral with a central processing unit running an operating system capable of running alternative sound synthesis software packages to generate sound signals from the input from the human operator'"'"'s manipulation input to the musical instrument interface.