There is provided an electronic percussion instrument including a struck surface and strike sensors. The strike sensors include a central sensor; a plurality of peripheral sensors; a first position calculation device configured to, when an initial half wave of a strike waveform of the central sensor is detected within a first predetermined time after the central sensor detects a strike, calculate a first strike position from the central sensor based on the initial half wave; a second position calculation device configured to calculate a second strike position based on a difference in strike detection by the plurality of peripheral sensors; and a sound production instruction device configured to instruct production of a striking sound based on the first and second strike positions respectively calculated by the first and second position calculation devices.

Systems, methods, and devices for providing interactive striking objects and performing actions in response to striking motions of the striking objects are provided. The interactive system includes a striking motion module that determines striking motions based on accessing information measured by a motion detector, and an action module that provides actions based on the striking motions determined by the striking motion module.

Media content is electronically produced through the use of a graphical user interface, where a composition canvas area is presented. User input devices are used to select locations for one or more graphical elements, which represent media content such as tracks, instruments, or additional users, on the composition canvas area. The selection of a location identifies where the graphical element should be overlaid on the composition canvas. Based on the location of the graphical elements, at least a section of a digital composition is produced.

An input apparatus includes a touch detection substrate having a first opening and including a touch pattern provided on an outer circumference of the first opening, a control substrate having a light emitting element, a reflector provided between the touch detection substrate and the control substrate and including a light reflection region disposed in such a manner as to correspond to the light emitting element, a panel including a touch surface, and a case having a second opening and to which the panel is attached, and light emitted by the light emitting element is released to an exterior by way of the first opening and the second opening, and the case and the reflector are detachably fixed together with a fastening component.

An arpeggiation controller musical instrument operable to receive a user hand gesture and play an arpeggiation pattern. The musical instrument includes an X-Y pad operable to detect the user hand gesture. The user hand gesture sets one or more parameters of the arpeggiation pattern. The musical instrument also includes an arpeggiation generator operable to create the arpeggiation pattern based on the user hand gesture.

An electronic instrument comprising an elongated member, comprising a plurality of detectors aligned in the elongated member, each detector for detecting a finger-sized object in the vicinity thereof and for providing a corresponding signal; a processing unit operatively connected to the plurality of detectors, the processing unit for receiving the signals from the plurality of detectors and for generating a signal indicative of a sound to generate and a sound generating unit operatively connected to the processing unit and wherein the processing unit is located inside the elongated member.

Systems, methods, and devices for providing interactive striking objects (e.g., drumsticks) and performing actions in response to striking motions of the striking objects are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide an interactive drumstick, which includes a lighting display located at a tip portion of the interactive drumstick, a motion detector contained at least partially within the drumstick, a processor and memory contained at least partially within the drumstick, and an interactive system stored within the memory of the drumstick. The interactive system includes a striking motion module that determines striking motions of the drumstick with respect to a virtual percussion instrument based on accessing information measured by the motion detector, and a display module that causes the lighting display to present a certain type of illumination based on the striking motions determined by the striking motion module.

An apparatus for making music includes a cymbal, an acoustic transducer, a signal-processing system that receives a first signal from the acoustic transducer and that generates a second signal based on a property of the first signal, and a classifier that determines a particular manner in which the cymbal was struck based on the second signal, and provides an output trigger signal for triggering production of a sound that consistent with the particular manner.

Percussion devices are described employing sensor arrays based on piezoresistive materials.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an audio system. The audio system includes a user computer to output a note; a musical instrument unit to transmit a first electrical signal to the user computer, and a user operation recognition device attached to or disposed at a specific part of the musical instrument unit to transmit a second electrical signal to the user computer. The user operation recognition device is to change or adjust a note of the musical instrument unit on the basis of a touch applied to the user operation recognition device. The user operation recognition device includes a substrate, and at least one unit cell including a first partial electrode formed along a first pattern on the substrate and a second partial electrode formed along a second pattern on the substrate.