KnoteBox
Team members:
- Joseph Kramer
- Leonid Ovanesyan
- James Thompson
Learning a new song or even a new instrument is a tedious process that can be irritating and discouraging at times. The advent of music-based video games presents a proof-of-concept for alternative means of learning music. Although such games employ simplified controllers, there is no reason why this concept cannot be extended to actual musical instruments. With real-time note recognition, any instrument can be used to interact with the game where the user must play a specific note at a specific time. We will be building a system that is able to recognize musical notes from a musical signal with minimal time delay. We will have the music signal come in to our system through an audio cable and we will output MIDI data. MIDI data is a music standard and contains information on what notes are being played. Once the MIDI data is obtained, it will be sent to a PC to interact with software used to handle MIDI data. The computer will have an interface where the user is able to see what note was just played.