Electronic Musical Instrument Audio Player Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic musical instruments with automatic performance-environment setting functions face difficulties in setting a suitable performance environment without direct access to music content, especially when not connected to a communication network and lack sufficient storage for music content reproduction.
Innovation Solution
An electronic musical instrument that connects to an external audio player to reproduce and set a performance environment based on user-input music piece character information, allowing the user to select and listen to the music content, thereby confirming the content and automatically setting the environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If music content is acquired via communication network, then user can confirm music content before performance, but electronic musical instrument requires network connectivity and communication interface
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses an external audio player as an intermediary device to provide music content confirmation functionality. The audio player stores and reproduces music content, allowing the user to confirm the content before performance without requiring the electronic musical instrument to have network connectivity or built-in music content storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention separates the music content storage and reproduction functions from the electronic musical instrument itself, placing them in an external audio player. This segmentation allows the electronic musical instrument to focus on performance functions while the audio player handles content confirmation, eliminating the need for network connectivity in the instrument.
2Loss of information
If music content is stored in electronic musical instrument, then user can confirm music content, but storage device requires great storage capacity and increases cost
Solution Approach 1:
The external audio player serves as an intermediary that provides music content storage and reproduction capabilities. This allows the electronic musical instrument to access and confirm music content without requiring built-in storage devices or reproduction devices, thereby reducing device complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention leverages the audio player's existing music content library as a copy source. The electronic musical instrument can access and reproduce music content from the audio player without needing to store full copies of music content locally, reducing storage requirements.
3Ease of operation
If automatic performance-environment setting is implemented, then performance environment can be set easily and promptly, but user cannot confirm music content without network connection
Solution Approach 1:
The audio player acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between automatic performance-environment setting and music content confirmation. It provides the confirmation functionality that would otherwise require network connectivity, allowing users to verify music content before the automatic setting process begins.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention enables preliminary music content confirmation through the audio player before the automatic performance-environment setting is executed. This preliminary action allows users to verify the music content and ensure it matches their expectations before committing to the automatic setting process.
Data Source
AI summary
Audio player, having many items of music content stored therein and having at least a function for reproducing any one of the items of music content stored therein, is instructed to select and reproduce music content, corresponding to a user-designated music piece, from among the items of music content. In response to user's designation of the music piece, the audio player selects, from among the many items of music content, music content corresponding to the designated music piece and reproduces the selected music content. With such arrangements, a user is allowed to appropriately and readily set a performance environment suited for the desired music piece, by using the audio player to actually listen to and check the content of the music piece for which a performance environment is to be set.