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Australian Angel Investment Backs the Future of Interactive Music Learning and Entertainment
1st May 2009
An Australian first co-investment deal between state-based Angel Investment groups Melbourne Angels, SA Angels Inc, and Gold Coast Angels have placed an investment into privately owned Adelaide based business StarPlayit Pty Ltd..
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Australian Company Beats YouTube Online Symphony Goal by Four Years
4th December 2008
YouTube is touting that it will create the world's first ever collaborative online orchestra and summit, Australian company StarPlayit achieved this and more over 4 years ago..
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StarPlayit (formerly In The Chair) is a multi-award winning music technology company delivering platforms for online musical performance and participation.

StarPlayit's patent pending technology provides its products with the ability to listen to a musical performance, on a real analogue instrument, and make real time judgments on pitch, tone, timing, duration and dynamics.

A New Way of Playing an Instrument:

  • Traditional music learning is hard and boring
  • Beginners sound bad and get discouraged.
  • Years of solo practice is required to sound good

StarPlayit's world first music technology transforms learning into a videogame:

  • The controller is a REAL INSTRUMENT
  • REAL guitar heroes play REAL guitars
  • The Technology is applicable to all instruments 

StarPlayit has achieved the holy grail of signal processing:

  • Real-time polyphonic note detection from an acoustic audio signal
  • Highly accurate and extremely low in latency - ideal for gaming and other live performance/real-time applications
  • Any instrument can be used via a microphone or Direct Input
  • Lightweight software algorithm makes the technology portable to any platform including mobile/handheld


Awards:

  • South Australia Innovation Award to represent the state at G’day Australia’s New York Shootout in Jan 2007
  • Invited to web2.0’s LaunchPad in San Francisco in Nov 2006
  • Best Australian Made Music Product 2006 by the Australian Music Association in Sept 2006
  • 1st prize for Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Competition (Learning category) in Dec 2005
  • Demo@15 in Feb 2005
  • Guy Manson Hottest Company award at Anzatech in Oct 2004