On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Joe Smith wrote: > That is not sheet music, but more of a raw storage of notes, > timings, and durations (not too unlike a midi file).
What else is sheet music but a storage form of notes, timings and durations? > But the key here is that this specifies that the interface must have > two different types of controls. One that must be pressed with the > correct timing (the strum bar on a Guitar Hero controler) as well as > selection buttons that need not be pushed with exact timing, but > need only be pushed in the right combination when the timing control > is pushed. So you have an instrument which has to preselect a note, and another which much be pressed with exact timing. Most wind instruments satisfy that requirement. [Not that any of this really matters, but I'd be rather surprised if someone who wanted to couldn't kill this off with prior art based on the bit I've seen.] Don Armstrong -- Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I did all day? -- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
