Patent ID: 9747878
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G10H

Claim:
1. A music generating system for enabling a user to generate a musical melody without playing an electronic percussion instrument, said music generating system comprising: an electronic percussion instrument; a musical instrument digital interface(MIDI) controller communicatively coupled to said electronic percussion instrument, said MIDI controller configured to receive a first user input and thereby generates and transmits a corresponding first audio control signal; a unidirectional universal serial bus (USB) communication link coupled to said MIDI controller; a MIDI converter communicatively coupled to said unidirectional USB communication link; a bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link communicatively coupled to said MIDI converter; a rhythm drum machine in communication with said bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link, said rhythm drum machine being configured to receive a second user input and thereby generates and transmits a corresponding second audio control signal; wherein said MIDI converter is configured to independently and sequentially receive and learn said first audio control signal and said second audio control signal in a non-overlapping pattern and thereby independently and sequentially generates and transmits to said rhythm drum machine a first musical melody and a second musical melody corresponding to said first audio control signal and said second audio control signal, respectively; and a transducer communicatively coupled to said rhythm drum machine in such a manner that said first musical melody is audibly emitted with a reduced first latency time period, and thereafter a second musical melody is audibly emitted with a reduced second latency time period; wherein said first latency time period starts when said MIDI converter learns said first audio control signal and stops when said transducer emits said first musical melody; wherein said second latency time period starts when said MIDI converter learns said second audio control signal and stops when said transducer emits said second musical melody; wherein said first audio control signal is non-overlapping with said second audio control signal.