Interactive digital music recorder and player
First Claim
1. A method of processing a melody using a composition algorithm comprising the steps of:
- providing a computing resource for processing a series of MIDI events;
providing a memory area containing a plurality of sound samples, wherein each of the sound samples comprises an audio stream;
providing one or more user input resources enabling user interactivity with the composition algorithm;
wherein at least one user input resource can affect a pitch changing function, and wherein at least one user input resource can affect a tempo changing function; and
wherein the playback of a sound sample is temporally synchronized to the series of MIDI events in accordance with a musical rule.
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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.
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13 Claims
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1. A method of processing a melody using a composition algorithm comprising the steps of:
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providing a computing resource for processing a series of MIDI events; providing a memory area containing a plurality of sound samples, wherein each of the sound samples comprises an audio stream; providing one or more user input resources enabling user interactivity with the composition algorithm; wherein at least one user input resource can affect a pitch changing function, and wherein at least one user input resource can affect a tempo changing function; and wherein the playback of a sound sample is temporally synchronized to the series of MIDI events in accordance with a musical rule. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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