| CPC G10H 1/28 (2013.01) [G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 2210/185 (2013.01); G10H 2220/161 (2013.01); G10H 2220/201 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |
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1. An arpeggiation controller musical instrument operable to receive one or more input chords, to detect a user hand gesture to establish an arpeggiation pattern, and to play an arpeggiation of the one or more received input chords in accordance with the arpeggiation pattern, the musical instrument comprising:
an X-Y pad operable to detect the user hand gesture, wherein the user hand gesture sets one or more parameters of the arpeggiation pattern to establish the arpeggiation pattern; and
an arpeggiation generator operable to create the arpeggiation of the one or more input chords in accordance with the arpeggiation pattern based on the user hand gesture,
wherein the arpeggiation controller musical instrument continues to arpeggiate received input chords in accordance with the arpeggiation pattern until a new user hand gesture on the X-Y pad establishes an updated arpeggiation pattern for the received input chords, upon which the arpeggiation controller musical instrument arpeggiates received input chords in accordance with the updated arpeggiation pattern.
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