Patent ID: 9640160
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,G10H

Claim:
1. A method comprising: using a portable computing device as a synthetic string instrument; displaying on a multi-touch sensitive display of the portable computing device, and in correspondence with a musical store, temporally synchronized visual cues suggestive of desired finger contact positions on respective strings of the synthetic string instrument, wherein a first desired finger contact position is displayed at a first length on a first string, a second desired finger contact position is displayed at a second length on a second string, and the first length is different from the second length; capturing user gestures indicative of excitation of at least one of the strings in correspondence with respective finger contacts with the multi-touch sensitive display along visual depictions of the respective strings; encoding a gesture stream based on at least a subset of the string excitation indicative user gestures; and audibly rendering the performance on the portable computing device using the encoded gesture stream as an input to a digital synthesis of the synthetic string instrument executing on the portable computing device, wherein the captured gesture stream, and not the musical score itself, drives the digital synthesis.