Jimmy Hotz Patents

• MIDI Translator 

             United States Patent # US05099738  View Patent US05099738

Patent number 5,099,738 was granted on March 31, 1992 for a "MIDI MUSICAL TRANSLATOR." This patent encompasses methods that go to the very fundamentals of computer-assisted music performance.

• Electronic musical instrument for playing along with prerecorded music.

            United States Patent # US05502274 View Patent US05502274

Patent number 5,502,274 was granted on March 26, 1996 for an "ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FOR PLAYING ALONG WITH PRERECORDED MUSIC AND METHOD OF OPERATION." This patent encompasses methods allowing a playing surface to be translated with the notes selected from a database of chords and scales in the proper key, in real time with recorded music.

• Electronic musical instrument dynamically responding to varying

           chord and scale input information.

            United States Patent # US05619003  View Patent US05619003

Patent number 5,619,003 was granted on April 8, 1997 for an "ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DYNAMICALLY RESPONDING TO VARYING CHORD AND SCALE INPUT INFORMATION."