Keyboard Sound Mapping Interface for Intuitive Parameter Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies for customizing musical sound production with musical instruments manage parameters in isolation, leading to a fragmented user experience, prolonged learning curve, and lack of intuitive understanding of parameter interactions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a graphical interface to transmit and receive keyboard key selections, identify regions and zones, assign musical sound characteristics, and store relationships between keyboard keys, regions, and zones, enabling cohesive and intuitive sound customization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If parameters are managed in isolation, then each parameter can be controlled individually, but the user experience becomes fragmented and the learning curve increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple isolated parameter controls into a unified graphical interface that displays and manages all parameters together in a cohesive structure, allowing users to see and manipulate parameter relationships simultaneously rather than through separate disconnected controls
Solution Approach 2:
The graphical interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays parameter values, shows interrelationships between parameters, allows selection and modification of multiple parameters, and provides contextual information about parameter interactions, replacing what would otherwise require multiple separate control mechanisms
2Productivity
If parameters are managed in isolation, then individual parameter control is simple, but users spend more time to become proficient with the interface
Solution Approach 1:
The system preliminarily organizes all parameters and their relationships in the graphical interface before user interaction, pre-establishing the contextual framework and interconnections so users immediately understand parameter relationships upon opening the interface rather than discovering them through separate exploration of isolated controls
3Adaptability or versatility
If parameters are managed in isolation, then each parameter can be adjusted independently, but users lack intuitive understanding of parameter interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical interface provides continuous visual feedback showing how parameter values and selections in one area affect other parameters and regions, allowing users to intuitively understand interrelationships through immediate visual response rather than through separate trial-and-error adjustments of isolated controls
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method for facilitating customizing a production of musical sounds associated with a musical instrument. Further, the method may include transmitting a graphical interface to a device, receiving a keyboard key selection of a keyboard key region from keyboard key regions from the device, identifying a region from regions comprised in each of characteristic associating elements, displaying a region selection indication for the region in each of the characteristic associating elements, receiving a zone selection of a zone from the two or more zones of the region using the graphical interface from the device, assigning each of musical sound characteristics uniquely to one or more of keyboard keys, generating a musical sound information for one or more of the keyboard keys based on the assigning, and storing the region-keyboard key relationship, the zone-characteristic relationship, and the musical sound information.