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ALLEGRO MULTIMEDIA, INC

ALLEGRO MULTIMEDIA, INC Patent applications
Patent application numberTitlePublished
20090235808System and Method of Instructing Musical Notation for a Stringed Instrument - A method of instructing a user to read musical notation through interaction with a graphical user interface and an input instrument representative of a stringed instrument may include the steps of generating the graphical user interface having a first mode. The first mode may include a virtual fingerboard positioned substantially along a vertical extreme of the interface, the virtual fingerboard may include a first linear array representing a first string having a first frequency range. The virtual fingerboard may also include a second linear array representing a second string having a second frequency range, wherein the second frequency range overlaps the first frequency range associated with a string. Furthermore, the virtual fingerboard may additionally include a plurality of note positions, each note position having a corresponding fingerboard position on the input instrument.09-24-2009
20080289477MUSIC COMPOSITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system, program code, and method for music composition, comprising: displaying a composition object according to a first value, wherein the first value includes a musical event; displaying a first and second indicator, wherein the first and second indicator describes the first value; selecting the composition object; graphically altering the first indicator; changing the first value to a second value; and graphically altering the second indicator. The first indicator comprises the position of the composition object relative to a displayed virtual instrument. The second indicator is not keyed to shapes, rather comprises a color. The method and system further incorporates a graphical user interface including a virtual music instrument; the virtual music instrument includes a plurality of virtual keys, each key corresponding to a key on a performance module.11-27-2008