An automated music composition and generation system and process for scoring a selected media object or event marker, with one or more pieces of digital music, by spotting the selected media object or event marker with musical experience descriptors selected and applied to the selected media object or event marker by the system user during a scoring process, and using said selected musical experience descriptors to drive an automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate the one or more pieces of digital music.

An automated music composition and generation system and process for producing one or more pieces of digital music, by providing a set of musical energy (ME) quality control parameters to an automated music composition and generation engine, applying certain of the selected musical energy quality control parameters as markers to specific spots along the timeline of a selected media object or event marker by the system user during a scoring process, and providing the selected set of musical energy quality control parameters to drive the automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate one or more pieces of digital music with control over the specified qualities of musical energy embodied in and expressed by the piece of digital music to composed and generated by the automated music composition and generation engine.

An electronic musical instrument allows a player to operate operators as least number of times as possible to play music, and the player can play music easily and agreeably, using the instrument. Every measure decided by plural beats counted based on a designated meter a prior tone is determined from among automatic playing music data. The prior tone is a musical tone which is made note-on for example at a timing of a downbeat in the measure. If a candidate for the prior tone is one of chord composing tones, and the one of chord composing tones can compose a melody, then such musical tone is decided as the prior tone. The prior tones successively decided from the beginning of the automatic playing music data are indicated to the player as lighted up keys. The player operates the lighted up keys successively to perform the automatic playing music data.

An automated music composition and generation system and process allowing system users to produce and deliver electronic messages and documents, such as text, SMS and email, augmented with automatically-composed music generated using user-selected emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors. The automated music composition and generation system includes an automated music composition and generation engine operably connected to a system user interface, and the infrastructure of the Internet. Mobile and desktop client machines provide text, SMS and/or email services supported on the Internet. Each client machine has a text application, SMS application and/or email application augmented by the addition of automatically-composed music by systems users using the automated music composition and generation engine. By selecting and providing musical emotion and style descriptors to the engine, music is automatically composed, generated, and embedded in text, SMS and/or email messages for delivery to other client machines over the infrastructure of the Internet.

A method in an electronic device includes detecting, by one or more processors of the electronic device, an operating context of the electronic device. The method then alters, by the one or more processors, one or more of a source file of an audio alert or a playback characteristic of the audio alert as a function of the operating context. The altering can eliminate a mismatch between the audible alert and audio content being delivered by an audio output that the audible alert interrupts. The audio output of the electronic device then delivers the audio alert in response to detecting an audio output triggering event.

A toy musical instrument having a compact housing supporting an automated music composition and generation engine that is driven by icon-based musical experience descriptors and musical style descriptors, selected by a child or adult during a video scoring process.

An automated music composition and generation system including a system user interface for enabling system users to review and select one or more musical experience descriptors, as well as time and/or space parameters; and an automated music composition and generation engine, operably connected to the system user interface, for receiving, storing and processing musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user, so as to automatically compose and generate one or more digital pieces of music in response to the musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters selected by the system user. The automated music composition and generation engine includes: a digital piece creation subsystem for creating and delivering the digital piece of music to the system user interface; and a digital audio sample producing subsystem supported by virtual musical instrument libraries.

An automated music composition and generation system for automatically composing and generating digital pieces of music using an automated music composition and generation engine driven by a set of emotion-type and style-type musical experience descriptors and time and/or space parameters supplied by a system user during an automated music composition and generation process. The system includes a system user interface allowing a system user to input (i) linguistic and/or graphical icon based musical experience descriptors, and (ii) a video, audio-recording, image, slide-show, or event marker, as input through the system user interface.

The subject disclosure relates to automated songwriting. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology can include steps for training a melody prediction model for selecting melodies for lyrics using a corpus of songs, the melody prediction model including modeled melody features and corresponding modeled patterns of lyric features, receiving lyric input of lyrics including a pattern of lyric features from a user, applying the melody prediction model to the lyric input to automatically generate one or more melodies for the lyric input by matching the pattern of lyric features in the lyric input to a first subset of the modeled melody features using the corresponding modeled patterns of lyric features of the modeled melody features, and providing the one or more melodies to the user to generate a song using the lyrics.

An electronic musical instrument allows a player to operate operators as least number of times as possible to play music, and the player can play music easily and agreeably, using the instrument. Every measure decided by plural beats counted based on a designated meter a prior tone is determined from among automatic playing music data. The prior tone is a musical tone which is made note-on for example at a timing of a downbeat in the measure. If a candidate for the prior tone is one of chord composing tones, and the one of chord composing tones can compose a melody, then such musical tone is decided as the prior tone. The prior tones successively decided from the beginning of the automatic playing music data are indicated to the player as lighted up keys. The player operates the lighted up keys successively to perform the automatic playing music data.