A VIRTUAL MUSIC INSTRUMENT WITH A NOVEL INPUT DEVICE

摘要

A virtual musical instrument including a hand-held accessory (300) of a type that is intended to be brought into contact with a musical instrument so as to play that instrument. The hand-held accessory includes a switch (304) which, in response to the hand-held accessory being caused to strike another object by a person holding it, generates an activation signal. The musical instrument also includes an audio synthesizer, a memory storing a sequence of notes data structures for a musical score, a timer, and a digital processor receiving the activation signal and generating a control signal therefrom.