Patent ID: 9117429
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A musical instrument input device comprising a tone input device, the tone input device comprising: a tone signal input configured to receive a tone signal; a tone signal output configured to externally output the tone signal; a sound classifier connected to the tone signal input and programmed or configured to receive the tone signal incoming at the tone signal input and to analyze the tone signal to identify, within the tone signal, one or several tone signal passages corresponding to at least one sound pattern, wherein the sound classifier includes a correlator programmed or configured to analyze the tone signal by correlating the tone signal with the at least one sound pattern; a command signal generator connected to the sound classifier and programmed or configured to generate a command signal allocated to the at least one sound pattern; and a command output configured to output the command signal to a command processing unit which is external to the musical instrument input device in order to control the command processing unit; wherein the sound classifier is configured to interrupt outputting the tone signal via the tone signal output for a duration of the one or several tone signal passages, when the at least one sound pattern exists.