公开(公告)号：US20190139522A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16051526

申请日：2018-08-01

Applicant: Pearl Musical Instrument Co.

Inventor： Shawn D. Lafrenz

IPC: G10H1/00 ,  G10H1/34

Abstract: An electronic mallet controller includes a plurality of bars representing musical notes. Each bar active produces a signal indicative of the respective musical note when struck by an implement, and all adjacent bars are spaced apart with the same spacing. A first user input permits a user to select a lowest diatonic natural note of the range of the musical instrument to thereby define a location of dead notes. A processor circuit interprets each signal as an outputted musical note. Based on the first user input, the processor circuit shifts mapping between the bars and the musical notes to be outputted, causing the dead note locations to be associated with certain of the bars, and wherein the bars at the dead note locations are inactive bars. An indicator is associated with the inactive bars to indicate the location of the dead notes to the user.

公开(公告)号：US10311841B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US16051526

申请日：2018-08-01

Applicant: Pearl Musical Instrument Co.

Inventor： Shawn D. Lafrenz

IPC: G10H1/00 ,  G10H1/34

Abstract: An electronic mallet controller includes a plurality of bars representing musical notes. Each bar active produces a signal indicative of the respective musical note when struck by an implement, and all adjacent bars are spaced apart with the same spacing. A first user input permits a user to select a lowest diatonic natural note of the range of the musical instrument to thereby define a location of dead notes. A processor circuit interprets each signal as an outputted musical note. Based on the first user input, the processor circuit shifts mapping between the bars and the musical notes to be outputted, causing the dead note locations to be associated with certain of the bars, and wherein the bars at the dead note locations are inactive bars. An indicator is associated with the inactive bars to indicate the location of the dead notes to the user.