Jason Sean Mcclinsey, Age 50446 S Plank Rd, Westtown, NY 10998

2006018, Aug 17, 2006

Jan 5, 2006

11/325707

Jason McClinsey - Middletown NY, US

G10H 7/00

084645000

A music or audio composition system, or other composition system for time-based media such as video, defines a composition using a set of tracks. Similar to a traditional track, each track in the composition system is represented in a graphical user interface as a timeline. However, each track also has its own attributes that are used to access a content database. As a result, each track may have its own context-sensitive browser or other mechanism to access the content database. The attributes of a track may include, for example, an associated instrument category, musical style and qualifying parameters. In the graphical user interface, if a user selects a track and inputs search parameters for browsing the database, the results from the database are limited to those that also match the attributes of the track in addition to the user-provided search parameters. For example, the browser for a drum track will provide drum clips; the browser for a bass track will provide bass clips. Clips in the browser for a track also may be auditioned. These clips are auditioned by playing them on the track (thus using the level, pan and effect presets of the track) with which the browser is associated. Such auditioning of the content using the various settings of the track makes the auditioning context-sensitive. Effects and synthesizer sounds also may be auditioned. Multiple clips can be selected for auditioning on different tracks. By creating a composition that includes multiple tracks for content to be auditioned, selected clips for multiple different tracks may be played back for simultaneous auditioning. A selected clip may be dragged and dropped on the timeline portion associated with that track to add the clip to the composition.