Effector Icon Customization for Clear Guitar Effect Settings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face difficulties in distinguishing between multiple effectors of the same type in guitar amplifiers and PC applications due to the use of identical image icons, making it challenging for users to differentiate their settings.
Innovation Solution
A setting system and device that allows users to change the image of effector icons on a PC, enabling easy distinction between effectors by displaying specified images instead of standard ones, and transmitting these settings to a guitar amplifier for sequential effect processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the same standard image icon is displayed for multiple effectors of the same type, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates because users cannot distinguish between different effectors with identical icons
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each effector icon to have its own unique specified image that differs from the standard image and from other effector icons. This enables users to distinguish between multiple effectors of the same type by displaying different custom images for each effector, while the underlying effector type and function remain the same. The specified images are displayed locally at each icon position to provide individual identification.
2Ease of operation
If custom specified images are displayed for each effector icon, then the ease of operation is improved by enabling user distinction between effectors, but the device complexity increases due to additional image management and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an effector management unit as an intermediary component that handles the complexity of image management. This unit stores both standard images and specified images, and manages the mapping between effectors and their corresponding images. By centralizing image management in this intermediary unit, the complexity is isolated from the user interface and other system components, allowing users to benefit from custom images without the entire system becoming more complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by displaying specified images as visual representations of effectors. Instead of requiring users to memorize or interpret technical parameters, the system creates visual copies (custom images) that users can easily distinguish. These specified images are stored and retrieved by the effector management unit to replace or supplement standard icons, providing intuitive visual identification without adding physical complexity to the hardware.
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AI summary
A setting system includes an electronic instrument and a setting device. The electronic instrument includes a first processor that inputs performance information, adds effect processing to a musical sound based on the performance information, outputs the musical sound with the effect processing added, receives a setting instruction from the setting device in which an order of the effect processing or parameters of the effect processing are set, and updates the order of the effect processing or the parameters of the effect processing to be added to the musical sound based on the setting instruction.