Patent ID: 6084171
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
A general purpose computer-based musical conversion system for converting musical notes comprising:a musical input device;a musical output device;a set of available input notes from said musical input device;a set of input notes comprising a subset of said set of available input notes;a set of available output notes;a set of fragments, each of said fragments containing at least one note of said set of input notes;a fragment selection table, said fragment selection table including at least one fragment selection set for each fragment, each of said fragment selection sets comprising notes of said set of available set of output notes wherein each input note of said fragments is correlated with exactly one of said set of available output notes;a fragment selection matrix including at least one map of valid fragment selections, each of said valid fragment selections indicating one of said fragment selection sets for each of said fragments;a map selector for selecting said map, anda set of selected output notes, said set of selected output notes comprising a subset of said set of available output notes resulting from the selection of one of said maps, said set of selected output notes being applied to said musical output device in response to said set of input notes being applied to said musical input device.