Abstract:
A system for music transcription that includes: a musical instrument; a computer; a communication link between the musical instrument and the computer; and software residing on memory within the computer adapted to interpret audio sound from the musical instrument and transcript musical notes onto a visible music scale. The musical notes are transcribed onto a treble clef and a bass clef, where the musical instrument includes at least one of a guitar, keyboard, horn, woodwind or other musical instrument. A tablature may also be provided for a stringed instrument. The communication link includes a microphone on the computer, where the microphone transmits music to a processor for interpretation.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a device for encoding music played using a stringed instrument. The device includes at least one magnet for providing a magnetic field proximate each of a plurality of strings of the stringed instrument; a plurality of Hall effect sensors, each paired with one of the plurality of strings and configured to generate a signal reflective of changes in the magnetic field caused by vibrations of the paired string; and a signal processor configured to process the signals generated by the plurality of Hall effect sensors to encode data reflective of music played using the stringed instrument.
Abstract:
An operating method of a music composing device includes receiving a melody through a user interface, generating a melody file corresponding to the received melody, generating a harmony accompaniment file suitable for the melody through analysis of the melody file, and generating a music file by synthesizing the melody file and the harmony accompaniment file.
Abstract:
A method for determining the key of an audio signal such as a music track. Portions (106) of the audio signal are analysed (104) to identify (108) a musical note and its associated strength (110) within each portion. Some notes identified in a portion may be ignored (118) to enable notes related to the key to be more readily distinguished. A first note is then determined (124) from the identified musical notes as a function of their respective strengths. From the identified musical notes, at least two further notes are selected (128) as a function of the first note. The key of the audio signal is then determined (130) based on a comparison of the respective strengths of the selected notes.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for characterizing in accordance with at least a descriptor, the timbre of a time-variable sound signal (s(t) for a duration D, which consists in defining said descriptor by the harmonic spectral scope of the signal.
Abstract:
A method for generating a musical tone, such as a ringing tone, the method comprising inputting (1, 2) a musical seed, and providing (3, 4) the musical tone on the basis of the musical seed. If the musical seed is in the form of a note-based code, the musical tone is generated (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) on the basis of said note-based code. If the musical seed is in the form of an audio signal, an audio-to-notes conversion is applied (3) to the audio signal for generating a note-based code representing the musical seed, and the musical tone is generated (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) on the basis of said note-based code.
Abstract:
An acoustic feature parameter analyzing unit provided in the front stage of a similarity computing unit analyzes an acoustic signal to be retrieved to obtain an acoustic feature parameter. A retriever acoustic signal reading unit reads the acoustic signal of a retriever from a retriever storing area in a retriever memory for analysis by a retriever acoustic feature parameter analyzing unit to obtain a retriever acoustic feature parameter. The similarity computing unit compares the acoustic feature parameter obtained by the acoustic feature parameter analyzing unit with the retriever acoustic feature parameter from the retriever acoustic feature parameter analyzing unit to compute the similarity between the two and retrieves a portion similar to an acoustic signal from a sound source of the retriever from an acoustic signal to be retrieved.
Abstract:
In an un-tuned state, the strings of a string instrument are excited, and a standard adjustment factor is determined for each string. When a pitch is generated as a result of a string being strummed (e.g., during normal playing of the instrument), the pitch generated by the string is adjusted by the standard adjustment factor and an intonation adjustment factor that accounts for intonation errors. An adjusted pitch is output that is in-tune and has accurate intonation.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a drum playing system which enables a user who has poor understanding of a drum to easily play a drum. A drum playing system according to the present invention comprises: a drum for playing which includes a plurality of drum-shaped or symbol-shaped drum parts, and each drum part is connected with a playing-signal sensing unit for sensing a playing state of the corresponding drum part; a playing-signal output device which outputs a MIDI signal corresponding to playing state information of each drum part applied from the drum for playing; and a playing control device which displays, through an information display unit, drum playing note information generated through the use of a MIDI file corresponding to a piece of music and on/off information of a played sound corresponding to the MIDI file, outputs an accompaniment note of a selected piece of music as a sound, and displays a drum playing state based on MIDI information inputted from the playing-signal output device.