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An Electronic Keyboard Instrument Using PC MIDI and USB Interface

PC MIDI와 USB Interface를 이용한 전자건반악기 개발

  • Lim, Gi-Jeong (School of Computer Engineering & Information Technology, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Lee, Jung-Chul (School of Computer Engineering & Information Technology, University of Ulsan)
  • 임기정 (울산대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학부) ;
  • 이정철 (울산대학교 컴퓨터정보통신공학부)
  • Received : 2011.10.05
  • Accepted : 2011.11.14
  • Published : 2011.11.30

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.

음악교육은 창의력, 사회성, 학업 성취도를 향상시킨다. 음악교육에 있어서 학습자들이 수동적으로 지식을 전달 받기보다는 자기 수준에 맞는 내용을 선택하여 자신의 학습속도에 맞춰 스스로 학습할 수 있는 학습자 중심의 교육이 강조되고 있다. 이에 따라 자신의 학습 수준, 속도에 맞게 학습할 수 있는 학습도구의 개발이 요구되고 있고, 특히 자율학습이 가능한 전자 악기 HW, SW에 대한 요구가 높아지고 있다. 그러나 기존의 전자악기와 PC MIDI를 이용한 software들은 초등학교 저학년 학생들이 악기연주 자율학습에 활용하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이들 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 PC 환경에서 PC와 USB Interface로 통신 가능한 외장 전자 건반악기와 PC 기반 software로 구성되는 악기연주 자율학습 지원도구 구현방법을 제안한다. 외장 전자건반모듈은 USB를 지원하는 PIC18F4550 MCU를 활용함으로써 간결한 구조와 저비용으로 구현하였다. 그리고 PC상에서 수행되는 software는 악보편집, MIDI정보 처리, 외장 전자건반모듈과의 상호연동을 통하여 건반악기와 유사한 환경을 지원함으로써 향후 자율학습용 컨텐츠가 추가될 경우 전자건반악기 연주 자율학습에 활용이 가능하다고 판단된다.

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