Electronic Wind Instrument Voice Sensor Breath Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic musical instruments do not allow players to perform specific techniques that involve uttering a voice while blowing into the instrument, limiting the generation of growling tones.
Innovation Solution
An electronic musical instrument equipped with a voice sensor to detect the player's voice and a breath sensor to measure blow pressure and volume, with a musical tone controlling unit that generates tones based on these inputs, enabling the production of specific performance tones.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional electronic musical instrument techniques are used, then basic wind instrument performance is achieved, but specific performance techniques involving voice utterance cannot be performed
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic musical instrument is designed to perform multiple functions: it can detect both breath parameters (using the breath sensor) and voice utterances (using the voice sensor), allowing a single device to support both conventional wind instrument playing and specific growling performance techniques
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit acts as an intermediary that processes signals from both the breath sensor and voice sensor, combining these inputs to generate appropriate sound outputs that reflect the player's intended performance technique
2Adaptability or versatility
If voice detection is added to detect specific performance techniques, then growling tones can be generated, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit is designed to handle multiple input types (breath sensor signals and voice sensor signals) and generate different sound outputs based on the combination of these inputs, making it a multi-functional control system
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the functionality of breath detection and voice detection into a unified control mechanism, where both sensors feed into the same control unit that coordinates their inputs to produce the final sound output
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables players to generate growling tones by detecting voice and blow parameters, allowing for a specific performance technique that was previously unattainable in electronic wind instruments.
Implementation Method 1
a voice sensor which detects a voice uttered by a user
Implementation Method 2
a breath sensor which detects at least one of a blow pressure and a blow volume
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic musical instrument is provided with a voice sensor for detecting a voice uttered by a user, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, a breath sensor for detecting at least one of a blow pressure and a blow volume in a body of the musical instrument, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, and a musical tone controlling unit for controlling generation of a musical tone based on at least one of outputs of the voice sensor and the breath sensor.