Marcus F Ryle, 642892 Redondo Ave, Santa Rosa Valley, CA 93012

6740803, May 25, 2004

Nov 21, 2001

09/990803

John Brinkman - Simi Valley CA
Dave Hamilton - Newbury Park CA
John Longawa - Thousand Oaks CA
Rob Rampley - Woodland Hills CA
Charles Corris Randall - Winnetka CA
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA

Line 6, INC - Agoura Hills CA

A61H 500

84609, 84626

Disclosed is a computing device to allow for the selection and display of a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a user. An interface device couples the musical instrument to the computing device by performing A/D conversion of the musical instruments analog audio signal to create a digitized audio signal. The computing device includes a communication device and a processor. The communication device transmits a users request for the selection of a musical piece to a server. In turn, the communication device receives a session file associated with the musical piece from the server. The processor processes the session file such that the computing device presents a multimedia presentation of the audio file to the user. Moreover, the processor processes the digitized audio signal of the musical instrument so that the user can play the musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation of the audio file.

6787690, Sep 7, 2004

Jul 16, 2002

10/197363

Peter J. Celi - Agoura Hills CA
Michel A. Doidic - Westlake Village CA
David W. Fruehling - Simi Valley CA
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA

Line 6 - Agoura Hills CA

G10H 300

84723, 84600, 84602, 84725, 84730

Disclosed is a stringed instrument with embedded digital signal processing (DSP) modeling capabilities. The stringed instrument has a body and a plurality of strings and each of the plurality of strings is respectively coupled to a pickup of a polyphonic pickup. The polyphonic pickup is used to detect a vibration signal for each string. An A/D converter converts the detected vibration signal of a string into a digital string vibration signal. Further, a digital signal processor is located within the body of the stringed instrument to process the digital string vibration signal. Particularly, the digital signal processor is used to process the digital string vibration signal such that the corresponding string tone of one of a plurality of selectable stringed instruments may be emulated. The emulated digital tone signal is then converted to analog form to create an emulated analog tone signal for output to an amplification device.

6881891, Apr 19, 2005

Jul 16, 2002

10/197008

Olivier Limacher - Westlake Village CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US
Michel Doidic - Westlake Village CA, US
Carol A. Hatzinger - Newbury Park CA, US

Line 6, Inc. - Agoura Hills CA

G10H005/02
G10H007/00

84662, 84664

Multiple channels simultaneously provide multiple, modified digital audio signals, respectively, based on the same digital audio input signal. Each channel has a respective nonlinear effects section to apply a nonlinear transfer function, such as one that emulates a vacuum tube guitar amplifier, based on the input signal. In addition, a respective audio effects section is provided in each channel to apply an audio effect, such as a linear audio effect, based on the input signal. This audio effect is set in each channel by a controller. In another embodiment, multi-tracker (e. g. , double tracker) functionality is provided by the multiple channels wherein at least one of the delay effect, pitch shift, and gain change in a channel is automatically changed as a function of the input signal.

6969797, Nov 29, 2005

Nov 21, 2001

09/990801

John Brinkman - Simi Valley CA, US
Dave Hamilton - Newbury Park CA, US
John Longawa - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Rob Rampley - Woodland Hills CA, US
Charles Corris Randall - Winnetka CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US

Line 6, INC - Agoura Hill CA

G10H001/08
G10H007/00

84625, 84645

Disclosed is an interface device to couple a musical instrument to a computing device to allow a user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with a multimedia presentation. The interface device comprises a processor, a D/A converter, and a digital audio interface. The computing device creates a processed digital audio signal of the musical instrument based upon an original digitized audio signal of the musical instrument from the interface device. The D/A converter then converts a mixed digital signal of both the processed digital audio signal of the musical instrument and a digital audio file received from the computing device into a mixed analog audio signal. The processor controls the digital audio interface such that the mixed digital signal is transmitted through the D/A converter, and ultimately through an analog sound device, to the user.

6998528, Feb 14, 2006

May 5, 2004

10/840340

Olivier Limacher - Westlake Village CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US
Michel Doidic - Westlake Village CA, US
Carol A. Hatzinger - Newbury Park CA, US

Line 6, Inc. - Agoura Hills CA

G10H 5/02
G10H 7/00

84662, 84664

Multiple channels simultaneously provide multiple, modified digital audio signals, respectively, based on the same digital audio input signal. Each channel has a respective nonlinear effects section to apply a nonlinear transfer function, such as one that emulates a vacuum tube guitar amplifier, based on the input signal. In addition, a respective audio effects section is provided in each channel to apply an audio effect, such as a linear audio effect, based on the input signal. This audio effect is set in each channel by a controller. In another embodiment, multi-tracker (e. g. , double tracker) functionality is provided by the multiple channels wherein at least one of the delay effect, pitch shift, and gain change in a channel is automatically changed as a function of the input signal.

7020635, Mar 28, 2006

Jan 16, 2002

10/051871

Dave Hamilton - Newbury Park CA, US
John Brinkman - Simi Valley CA, US
John Longawa - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Charles Corris Randall - Winnetka CA, US
Rob Rampley - Woodland Hills CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US

Line 6, INC - Agoura Hills CA

G21C 17/60

705 51, 705 52

Disclosed is a system and method that tracks the usage of rented digital assets. A server includes an asset database that stores a digital asset, the title of the digital asset, and a server usage count for the digital asset. The computing device stores a rented digital asset and further stores an asset usage count list that includes the title of the rented digital asset and a usage count that indicates the amount of usage of the rented digital asset by the computing device. The server uploads the asset usage count list from the computing device and matches the title of the rented digital asset from the asset usage count list with the title of the same digital asset stored in the asset database. Further, the server adds the usage count of the rented digital asset to the server usage count for the digital asset in the asset database.

7030311, Apr 18, 2006

Nov 21, 2001

09/990532

John Brinkman - Simi Valley CA, US
Dave Hamilton - Newbury Park CA, US
John Longawa - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Rob Rampley - Woodland Hills CA, US
Charles Corris Randall - Winnetka CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US

Line 6, INC - Agoura Hills CA

G06F 13/00

84625, 709203

Disclosed is a system and method to deliver a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a computing device for display to a user and further to allow the user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation. In response to a user selecting a musical piece at the computing device, a server transmits a session file associated with the musical piece to the computing device through a computer network. The session file includes an audio file and multimedia data such that the computing device can process the session file to present the multimedia presentation of the audio file to the user. An interface device is connected to the computing device and to the user's musical instrument. The interface device couples the musical instrument to the computing device such that the user can play the musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation of the audio file.

7081580, Jul 25, 2006

Mar 1, 2004

10/791240

John Brinkman - Simi Valley CA, US
Dave Hamilton - Newbury Park CA, US
John Longawa - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Rob Rampley - Woodland Hills CA, US
Charles Corris Randall - Winnetka CA, US
Marcus Ryle - Westlake Village CA, US

Line 6, INC - Agoura Hills CA

A61H 5/00
G04B 13/00

84609, 84626

Disclosed is a computing device to allow for the selection and display of a multimedia presentation of an audio file to a user. An interface device couples the musical instrument to the computing device by performing A/D conversion of the musical instrument's analog audio signal to create a digitized audio signal. The computing device includes a communication device and a processor. The communication device transmits a user's request for the selection of a musical piece to a server. In turn, the communication device receives a session file associated with the musical piece from the server. The processor processes the session file such that the computing device presents a multimedia presentation of the audio file to the user. Moreover, the processor processes the digitized audio signal of the musical instrument so that the user can play the musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation of the audio file.