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5918303 Performance setting data selecting apparatus  
A performance setting data selecting apparatus including: a data storing unit for storing a plurality set of performance setting data; a table for storing a correspondence between each tune name of...
5915288 Interactive system for synchronizing and simultaneously playing predefined musical sequences  
A plurality of pre-recorded, generated or other sound tracks (e.g. voice, karaoke) are selectable and de-selectable by a user for synchronously mixing with a main song track and all other sound...
5902948 Performance instructing apparatus  
A performance instructing apparatus is provided wherein data that meet a predetermined condition or conditions are extracted from each predetermined range of automatic performance data, and the...
5902947 System and method for arranging and invoking music event processors  
A music processing system that processes music events includes a performance supervisor and a graph object. The graph object defines an ordered graph of music event processors, through which music...
5902949 Musical instrument system with note anticipation  
A music system including a musical instrument, such as a keyboard strummer, in which the musical notes produced by the playing of the instrument are controlled by musical assistance data mapped...
5899699 Karaoke network system with endless broadcasting of song data through multiple channels  
A karaoke network system is composed of a central station for serving a plurality of song data pieces, and a karaoke terminal connected to the central station through a communication network having...
5900567 System and method for enhancing musical performances in computer based musical devices  
A system and a method for the notes of one track to move in a harmonically separate manner from the notes of another track when the notes of each track are played against a chord progression. Each...
5900565 Auto-play apparatus using processing to thin out tone generation control data  
An auto-play apparatus has an edit function for thinning out various kinds of music tone control information indicating analog control amounts contained in auto-play data pre-stored in units of...
5895876 Sound reproducing apparatus which utilizes data stored on a recording medium to make the apparatus more user friendly and a recording medium used in the apparatus  
A karaoke reproducing apparatus is equipped a measure for easily checking whether a music piece selected by the user has correctly been accepted or not. The apparatus has a memory in which music...
5890910 Method of managing information files in a communication karaoke apparatus and a communication karaoke apparatus  
A storing unit of a communication karaoke apparatus has a newly released music file storing area, an information file storing area, a necessary information file list storing area, and the like....
5889223 Karaoke apparatus converting gender of singing voice to match octave of song  
In a karaoke apparatus, a tone generator responds to a request of a karaoke song for generating musical tones of the karaoke song having a given gender so as to accompany a live singing voice...
5886275 Transporting method of karaoke data by packets  
A method is designed for feeding karaoke data representative of karaoke performance to a karaoke apparatus having an audio section and a video section. The method is conducted by the following...
5885085 Drive-in interactive system  
A drive-in interactive performance system including a parking space in which at least a car can be parked and an interactive performance apparatus associated with the parking space and operable...
5886277 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument having a waveform memory of a relatively small capacity for storing waveform information similar to conventional waveform information, the waveform memory being...
5883325 Musical instrument  
A musical instrument comprises a plurality of keys (10-19), a processor means (20) connected to said keys and arranged to provide an output signal to be utilized in the generation of notes. A data...
5880388 Karaoke system for synchronizing and reproducing a performance data, and karaoke system configuration method  
A first reading unit reads first performance data from a first storage medium, and outputs it to a reproducing unit. A second reading unit reads second performance data from a second storage...
5880386 Musical information processing system with automatic data transfer  
In each of terminal devices, there is stored user profile information on the corresponding device. The user profile information includes data identifying the user, type and name of the device,...
5877445 System for generating prescribed duration audio and/or video sequences  
A block sequence compiler for compiling a sequence of audio and/or video blocks (e.g., audio tracks, MIDI, video clips, animation, etc.) suitable for producing one or more audio and/or video output...
5876213 Karaoke apparatus detecting register of live vocal to tune harmony vocal  
A karaoke apparatus is constructed to perform a karaoke accompaniment part and a karaoke harmony part for accompanying a live vocal part. A pickup device collects a singing voice of the live vocal...
5874686 Apparatus and method for searching a melody  
Apparatus and method for easily, efficiently, and accurately searching melodies. A melody is inputted to a computer and converted into a form of a sequence of digitized representations of relative...
5869782 Musical data processing with low transmission rate and storage capacity  
Each musical performance data of a source file includes time data, note data indicative of music sound start or music sound stop at a moment indicated by the time data, and accent data indicative...
5866833 Automatic performance system  
Automatic play progresses automatically with each sound generating operation based on timing data that indicates the timing for sounding a tone. In this manner, performance information for time...
5864868 Computer control system and user interface for media playing devices  
A computer system and method for controlling a media playing device. The system provides a user interface for allowing a user access to media pieces stored in a media database. The interface is...
5861567 Music computer saving abnormal tone generation by hangup  
In a musical tone synthesis apparatus, a sequencer provides a sequence of event data effective to command generation of musical tones. A generator operates according to the event data to generate...
5857856 Apparatus and system for generating sound based upon waveform data and system-sequence data  
A sound producing apparatus which implements a sound output process based on waveform data, corresponding to sound generated by the apparatus, and system-sequence data including information for...
5859379 Method of and apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases, and program storage medium readable by the apparatus for composing a melody  
An apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases sequentially corresponding to key input signals, and playing the switched musical phrases smoothly. The apparatus selects musical...
5834670 Karaoke apparatus, speech reproducing apparatus, and recorded medium used therefor  
A karaoke apparatus, a speech reproducing apparatus and a medium on which is recorded a computer program used therefor which output narration of synthesized speech including a requested song name,...
5833469 Method of operating a karaoke network system with system program distribution and karaoke network system  
A karaoke network system includes a host computer and a plurality of karaoke stations connected to the host computer via a communication line. When a new karaoke station is added to the karaoke...
5831195 Automatic performance device  
An automatic performance device includes a memory for storing automatic performance data (including accompaniment-related data) for a plurality of performance parts and automatic accompaniment...
5827988 Electronic musical instrument with an instruction device for performance practice  
An electronic musical instrument having a plurality of performance operation elements such as a plurality of keys on a keyboard, wherein a series of memorized performance data indicative of the...
5824934 Karaoke system including host apparatus that downloads information file based on list of necessary information files  
A host apparatus stores all of music-piece files and information files, and also stores lists information files (information file lists) required for a plurality of areas where communication...
5824932 Automatic performing apparatus with sequence data modification  
Character data representative of characters of song data and style data are written in header portions of the song data and the style data. When the user selects the song data and the style data,...
5824933 Method and apparatus for synchronizing and simultaneously playing predefined musical sequences using visual display and input device such as joystick or keyboard  
A plurality of pre-recorded, generated or other sound tracks (e.g. voice, karaoke) are selectable and de-selectable by a user for synchronously mixing with a main song track and all other sound...
5821444 Apparatus and method for tone generation utilizing external tone generator for selected performance information  
An electronic musical instrument is provided with a dedicated internal tone generator circuit and a removable external tone generator. When music performance information (e.g., MIDI data) of a...
5819284 Personalized real time information display as a portion of a screen saver  
Information "feeds" received from multiple information sources are aggregated, re-formatted and stored in a personalized real time information display system. When the display system receives a...
5814751 Musical tone generating apparatus  
A musical tone generating apparatus is capable of reproducing natural musical tones while waveform memories of a nominal capacity. The apparatus comprises a first waveform memory 1a for storing...
5811707 Effect adding system  
An effect adding system for use in Karaoke performance applications is provided which, when one person sings, singing with different height from that of the actual singing, or singing with...
5810603 Karaoke network system with broadcasting of background pictures  
A karaoke network system includes a central station for serving karaoke data and image data, and a group of karaoke terminals connected to the central station through a communication line having a...
5808223 Music data processing system with concurrent reproduction of performance data and text data  
A music data processing system having: a storage unit for storing performance data and text data or auxiliary data in a first storage format or in a second storage format; a first data search unit...
5808224 Portable downloader connectable to karaoke player through wireless communication channel  
A karaoke system has a player for presenting a karaoke accompaniment according to a song data selected in response to a request, and a loader coupled to the player for downloading thereinto a song...
5803747 Karaoke apparatus and method for displaying mixture of lyric words and background scene in fade-in and fade-out manner  
A karaoke apparatus has an information source for providing a performance data containing musical tone designation information, lyric indication information and fading control information according...
5796026 Electronic musical apparatus capable of automatically analyzing performance information of a musical tune  
An electronic musical apparatus having a performance information analyzer for automatically analyzing a performance information of a musical tune into a plurality of performance parts, wherein the...
5792971 Method and system for editing digital audio information with music-like parameters  
The present invention provides a method for editing digital audio information, such as musical material. Original musical parameters (302) are extracted and/or inputted from recorded original...
5777252 Atmosphere data generator and karaoke machine  
A CPU (10) reads coordinate data within an emotional expression data base (25) in accordance with lyrics data within a RAM. The CPU (10) also sequentially reads performance data and generates a...
5777250 Electronic musical instrument with semi-automatic playing function  
In an electronic musical instrument, playing data are produced by depressing a key in a keyboard, and divided into plural groups. At least one of the semi-automatic playing channels processes sound...
5777251 Electronic musical instrument with musical performance assisting system that controls performance progression timing, tone generation and tone muting  
An electronic musical instrument apparatus includes a pad and fret switches. When the pad is stricken while any one of the fret switches is depressed, at least a musical tone is generated. The...
5774672 Data transmission system for distributing video and music data  
In the karaoke system 1, a center 3 is connected to a plurality of karaoke terminals 5 by a coaxial cable 7. The center 3 divides the karaoke song data stored in the memory device 13 over several...
5773741 Method and apparatus for nonsequential storage of and access to digital musical score and performance information  
Digital musical information for a musical score is stored in records that are established based on types of musical information or notation and are therefore independent of the musical sequence of...
5773742 Note assisted musical instrument system and method of operation  
A music system including a musical instrument, such as a keyboard strummer, in which the musical notes produced by the playing of the instrument are controlled by musical assistance data mapped...
5770812 Software sound source with advance synthesis of waveform  
In a method of generating musical tones through a plurality of channels according to performance information by means of a processor placed in either of a working state and an idling state and a...