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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2011.16.11.085

An Electronic Keyboard Instrument Using PC MIDI and USB Interface  

Lim, Gi-Jeong (School of Computer Engineering & Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
Lee, Jung-Chul (School of Computer Engineering & Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.16, no.11, 2011 , pp. 85-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
The music education improves the creative talent, social skills and academic achievement of the students. For the efficient music education, the learner centered study is highly recommended rather than the passive education, which supports self-control in selecting teaching materials, learning patterns and speed. For the successful self learning, it is requested to develop the collaborative educational learning tools, especially electronic collaborators such as H/W and S/W. Though there exist many commercialized electronic instruments and the PC MIDI based softwares, these tools have some limits and problems for the primary student to learn playing the musical instrument by himself. In this paper, we propose a supporting tool implementation method using an electronic keyboard instrument with USB Interface and PC-based software to help the primary student to learn playing the musical instrument. We implemented an electronic keyboard instrument module compactly and at low cost using a PIC18F4550 MCU. PC based software was developed to edit musical score, process the MIDI information, and interact with the electronic keyboard instrument module. This tool can offer a similar keyboard instrument environment and can be incorporated with self learning contents.
Keywords
Electronic Keyboard Instrument; Self-study program; MIDI;
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