Patent ID: 7193148
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for generating an encoded rhythmic pattern from a rhythmic pattern, the rhythmic pattern having a set of velocity values, each velocity value being associated with a grid position from a plurality of grid positions, the plurality of grid positions further having grid positions at two different rhythmic levels, a grid position at a first rhythmic level having a higher significance than the grid position at the second rhythmic level, comprising: a processor for determining a grid position at the first rhythmic level and for determining a grid position at the second rhythmic level; and a sorter for sorting the velocity values, so that the velocity values associated with grid positions at the first rhythmic level form a first group and that velocity values associated with grid positions at the second rhythmic level form a second group and that the first group and the second group are in sequence to each other to obtain the encoded rhythmic pattern.