Patent ID: 8180073

Claim:
A system for creating and manipulating digital media, comprising: a graphics tablet comprising a tablet surface, a grid of wires located under the tablet surface, and a graphics tablet chipset comprising: a graphics tablet chipset interface operably connected to the grid of wires for sending power to a stylus when the stylus is positioned over the tablet surface and receiving a signal from the stylus; and a graphics tablet chipset output; wherein the graphics tablet chipset determines a position of the stylus with respect to the tablet surface using the graphics tablet chipset interface, and outputs the position of the stylus to the graphics tablet chipset output; a touchpad being positioned on the tablet surface such that the touchpad also detects the position of the stylus simultaneously with the graphics tablet determining the position of the stylus; a synthesizer chipset comprising: a synthesizer chipset input in communication with the touchpad; and a synthesizer chipset sound output; wherein the synthesizer chipset creates digital sounds based on input from the touchpad via the synthesizer chipset input, and outputs the digital sounds to the synthesizer chipset sound output; and a computer having a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI being in communication with the graphics tablet chipset output for receiving the position of the stylus from the graphics tablet chipset; wherein the computer has a sound input in communication with the synthesizer chipset output for receiving the digital sounds from the synthesizer chipset, wherein the computer executes a sound manipulation software program for manipulating the digital sounds to produce manipulated digital sounds, and wherein the computer further has a sound output for outputting the manipulated digital sounds; wherein the computer executes a drawing software program for: creating a visual image using the position of the stylus from the graphics tablet chipset as an input to the drawing software program; and influencing characteristics of the visual image using the digital sounds from the synthesizer chipset; and wherein the computer further has a video output for outputting the visual image.