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    DJTT Dominator JesC's Avatar
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    Been along time reader, sorry if I haven't posted in the past.

    I would love to hook up my VCI-100 to this program, plus patent talks about touch screen to iMac & notebook/tablet. :eek:

    Got this info from:MacNN



    "Apple’s patent FIG. 23 illustrates an embodiment of the invention for manipulating the replay and recording of audio or musical files. As shown in FIG. 23 below, a music application (830) can display a pair of virtual turntables (842 and 843), on which two musical records (834 and 835) are playing, the records being one of a single or a LP record. The records can be graphical representations of a digital musical file (e.g., song A and song B) that are being replayed via the music application. In other words, the records can be graphical imprints of the musical files as if the musical files were imprinted on physical records.

    Like a pair of physical turntables, stylus 844 and stylus 845 can be graphical icon indications of a playback queue, the position of which can be varied by touching the queue on a touch sensitive display screen and dragging the icon to the desired position on the graphical record. The moving of the stylus would cause a jump in the playback point of the corresponding song, as on a physical turntable.

    Also like a pair of physical turn tables start/stop buttons (838 and 839) can be touched by one or more fingers to toggle the start or stop/pause of the song reproduction. Speed variants bars (840 and 841) can be linearly adjusted to control the playback speed of the songs. Windows (831 and 833) can graphically reproduce the frequency representation of the reproduced songs, while window (832) can display the frequency representation of the actual output of the music application, which can be simply one of the songs being reproduced, or a mixed/combination of the songs. Mixing/pan bar (850) can be manipulated to modulate or demodulate the two songs being reproduced.

    During song reproduction, the records can be manipulated similar to a physical record. For instance, rapid back and forth movement of a record can cause the sound effect of a record “scratching,” as disc jockeys often do on physical turn tables."

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    I really think this is wack, turntables are full of real world limitations that can easily be overcome on the computer, yet mac chooses to keep all these limitations :\ To be fair though this is just a press release crap that will probably not have a whole lot of bearing over the final product, but there is certainly nothing in the release that has made peaked my interest or is showing anything really new.

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    I cant believe they got a patent for that- does it say if it was provisional or non-provisional?

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    Sorry Ean, I just went back and read the whole article and it doesn't mention if its provisional or non-provisional.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BentoSan View Post
    I really think this is wack, turntables are full of real world limitations that can easily be overcome on the computer, yet mac chooses to keep all these limitations :\ To be fair though this is just a press release crap that will probably not have a whole lot of bearing over the final product, but there is certainly nothing in the release that has made peaked my interest or is showing anything really new.
    regardless the future looks good !

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    Quote Originally Posted by eangolde View Post
    I cant believe they got a patent for that- does it say if it was provisional or non-provisional?
    If it's public, it'll be non provisional. It was also probably lodged with the patent office about two years ago (my patents took that long).

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