Patent ID: 11900903
Assignee: DIGIT MUSIC LIMITED
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. An input device for music production communicably couplable to a remote computing device for enabling a user, in use, to generate input signals configured to control functions of a music production application running on then remote computing device, the input device comprising a main body, a joystick, one or more sensors for monitoring the position and/or orientation of the joystick, and a controller, wherein a sensor output is received by the controller and the controller generates a corresponding signal output for control of the music production application, the range of movement of the joystick being divided into a plurality of zones comprising four or more discrete zones, the controller generating a signal output when the joystick is moved into a corresponding zone to cause a zone selection, wherein each of the plurality of zones corresponds to a note or chord of a musical scale and the signal output generated by the controller is a note or chord signal, wherein the joystick movement is used by the input device to denote additional information for the signal output accompanying the zone selection, the additional information determining a quality of the musical note or chord signal.