Intelligent Accompaniment System for Dynamic Musical Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current music accompaniment systems generate stiff or dull accompaniments that only repeat the notes played by the user, lacking dynamic changes and failing to provide chord information and effect settings, making it difficult for users to learn and imitate complex musical pieces.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent accompaniment generating system that uses machine learning, deep learning, and big data analysis to convert acoustic audio signals into digitized data, generating visual and audio assistance information, including beat and chord patterns, to create dynamic accompaniments that adapt to the user's playing style, using a cloud system with input, analysis, and generation modules, and outputting signals through digital amplifiers and speakers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional accompaniment generation methods are used, then the system is simple to operate, but the accompaniment becomes stiff or dull without changes and only repeats the notes played

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccompaniment adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts accompaniment generation based on real-time analysis of user playing patterns, tempo, and musical context. The accompaniment transitions from static repetition to dynamic adaptation, allowing the system to respond flexibly to user input while maintaining operational simplicity through automated analysis algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-analysis of the user's playing through automatic audio signal processing and feature extraction. By implementing built-in analysis modules that automatically identify beats, chords, and musical patterns without requiring external intervention, the system achieves adaptive accompaniment generation while keeping the user interface simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If basic note repetition is used, then the system is easy to implement, but chord information and effect settings are not provided, making it difficult for users to learn

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemusical information completenessVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the musical analysis into distinct functional modules: beat detection, chord recognition, effect parameter extraction, and accompaniment generation. Each module processes specific aspects of the music independently, then integrates results to provide comprehensive chord information and effect settings alongside the accompaniment, reducing overall system complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary analysis layer between the user's playing and the generated accompaniment. This intermediate processing stage extracts and analyzes musical features (beats, chords, effects) and transforms them into structured information that guides accompaniment generation, enabling complete musical information delivery without overwhelming processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If the accompaniment only corresponds to the notes played, then the processing is simple, but the accompaniment lacks dynamic changes and professional quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccompaniment qualityVSAvoidgeneration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes and analyzes the user's playing in advance, extracting beats, chords, and musical patterns before generating the accompaniment. By performing preliminary analysis and feature extraction, the system prepares structured musical information that guides subsequent accompaniment generation, ensuring professional quality while managing complexity through staged processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where the generated accompaniment is continuously monitored and adjusted based on user performance quality and musical context. This feedback mechanism ensures reliable, professional-quality accompaniment by automatically refining the output to match the user's skill level and the musical piece requirements, maintaining quality without requiring complex manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11398212B2Intelligent accompaniment generating system and method of assisting a user to play an instrument in a system
Publication Date: 2022.07.26 POSITIVE GRID LLC
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AI summary

The intelligent accompaniment generating system includes an input module, an analysis module, a generation module and a musical equipment. The input module is configured to receive a musical pattern signal derived from a raw signal. The analysis module is configured to analyze the musical pattern signal to extract a set of audio features, wherein the input module is configured to transmit the musical pattern signal to the analysis module. The generation module is configured to obtain a playing assistance information having an accompaniment pattern from the analysis module, wherein the accompaniment pattern has at least two parts having different onsets therebetween, and each onsets of the at least two parts is generated by an algorithm according to the set of audio features. The musical equipment includes a digital amplifier configured to output an accompaniment signal according to the accompaniment pattern.