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- Alan Huang, cesium@mit.edu
- Di Liu, liudi@mit.edu
- Daniel Gray, haiiro@mit.edu
- TA: Juho Kim, juhokim@mit.edu
Problem Statement
- Composing software is often expensive or highly complicated
- Composing may be inaccessible to users who haven't studied music for years
- lack of ability to recognize notation
- don't know how to play the right instruments
- The majority of people listen to music though, and naturally know what sounds good to them
- linguists note that music springs up everywhere language does
- Even for experienced users, if a person comes up with an idea for a song, without an easy way to "jot it down" they may well forget their tune.
- budding artists or writers can draw sketches or write notes in the margins of their papers when an idea hits, but we aren't taught musical notation at a young age.
- Even for experienced users, the mouse and keyboard aren't natural tools for musical input, so that it takes a long time to write down music. Users can buy MIDI input devices, but this requires learning to use it and lacks portability.
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- Fast Voice-to-MIDI
- Easy to record a melody whenever you need to
- Uncluttered UI that allows basic editing (cut, copy, move, etc. sections of music)
- Allow note twiddling without learning musical notation (raise/lower, shorten/lengthen a tone)
- Ability to manipulate separate tracks of music (overdub, change instrument, transpose, balance, etc.)
- Convenience
GR1 - User and Task Analysis
VoiceComposer GR1 - User and Task Analysis
GR2 - Designs
GR3 - Paper Prototyping
VoiceComposer GR3 - Paper Prototyping
GR4 - Computer Prototyping
VoiceComposer GR4 - Computer Prototyping
GR5 - Implementation
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