Apples Touch Screen DJ Program

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Is Apple planning a multi-touch DJ application?
Read Apple’s patent application , and let me know what you think:
[0145]FIG. 23 illustrates another embodiment of the invention formanipulating the replay and recording of audio or musical files. Asshown in FIG. 23, a music application 830 can display a pair ofvirtual turntables 842 and 843, on which two musical records 834and 835 are playing, the records being one of a single or a LPrecord. The records 834 and 835 can be graphical representations ofa digital musical file (e.g., song A and song B) that are beingreplayed via the music application 830. In other words, the recordscan be graphical imprints of the musical files as if the musicalfiles were imprinted on physical records.
[0146]Like a pair of physical turntables, stylus 844 and stylus 855can be graphical icon indications of a playback queue, the positionof which can be varied by touching the queue on a touch sensitivedisplay screen and dragging the icon to the desired position on thegraphical record. The moving of the stylus would cause a jump inthe playback point of the corresponding song, as on a physicalturntable.
[0147]Also like a pair of physical turn tables start/stop buttons838 and 839 can be touched by one or more fingers to toggle thestart or stop/pause of the song reproduction. Speed variants bars840 and 841 can be linearly adjusted to control the playback speedof the songs. Windows 831 and 833 can graphically reproduce thefrequency representation of the reproduced songs, while window 832can display the frequency representation of the actual output ofthe music application 832, which can be simply one of the songsbeing reproduced, or a mixed/combination of the songs. Mixing/panbar 850 can be manipulated to modulate or demodulate the two songsbeing reproduced.
[0148]During song reproduction, the records 834 and 835 can bemanipulated similar to a physical record. For instance, rapid backand forth movement of a record can cause the sound effect of arecord “scratching,” as disc jockeys often do onphysical turn tables.
It sure sounds like a multi-touch DJ program; but Apple may just beusing patents to stake out some territory.
I’m not sure about that turntable on the left,though…..
US Patent Office via MacNN , Skratchworx