Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Joong Sam Yun

Sung Su Kim

Seung Woo Shin

Seung H Yoo

Myoung Hwan Han

Tae Yong Kim

Myoung Ji Nam

Moon Sik Jung

Byung Sung Kim

Byung Soon Kim

Disclosed are a portable terminal with a music performance function and a method for playing a variety of musical instruments. The method includes: selecting a particular piece of music and a particular musical instrument from the portable terminal, according to a user request, and executing a music performance mode corresponding to the selected musical instrument; detecting a first input signal input to a screen according to the selected musical instrument in the musical performance mode; determining, if the first input signal is detected, whether a second input signal for executing audio source data is detected; analyzing the first and second input signals, in association with each other; and outputting audio source data of the selected music, according to the analyzed result, via audio signals.

Portable terminal with music performance function and method for playing musical instruments using portable terminal

A music composition method and system is provided for composing a music piece using a touch interaction with a touchscreen-enabled portable device. A music composition method includes setting an accompaniment with chords varying according to the progress of a unit play time; playing the accompaniment; displaying, when a series of touches are detected, a trace of the touches; playing a melody of tones mapped to positions of the touches and matching notes of a note scale defined by chords of the accompaniment playing at the times when the touches are detected; and saving the trace, melody, and accompaniment as a music piece as an ensemble.

Music composition method and system for portable device having touchscreen

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Incheon, South Korea

Joong Sam Yun