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5766018 |
Disc playback system, karaoke system and disc playback method
It is an object of this invention to provide a low-cost disc playback system which reduces the time the user has to wait for a disc to be played back. To achieve this objective, the system mounts a...
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5760323 |
Networked electronic music display stands
The present invention is directed to an electronic display stand that can advance through musical notes without interrupting a musician's performance. The stand can be controlled by remote...
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5756915 |
Electronic musical instrument having a search function and a replace function
A music performance information searching apparatus and a music performance information replacing apparatus. The music performance information searching apparatus includes a ROM or RAM for storing...
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5756916 |
Automatic arrangement apparatus
In an automatic arrangement apparatus having an accompaniment information memory for memorizing an accompaniment pattern, a specific basic part such as a melody part for arrangement of a musical...
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5753843 |
System and process for composing musical sections
A system and process for comprising a musical section in response to a user's interaction with a multimedia presentation is disclosed. The system includes a composition engine, performance engine,...
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5753844 |
Music play apparatus with advance resetting for subsequent playing
A music play apparatus has a data supply unit for providing performance data and initialization data associated to a desired music piece, and a sound source unit for reproducing the music piece...
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5750913 |
Music system and electronic musical instrument
A music system is comprised of a subsystem and a main system. The subsystem includes a first musical tone-synthesizing device that synthesizes musical tones, based on performance data externally...
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5750912 |
Formant converting apparatus modifying singing voice to emulate model voice
In a voice modifying apparatus for modifying a singing voice to emulate a model voice, a microphone collects the singing voice created by a singer. An analyzer sequentially analyzes the collected...
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5747715 |
Electronic musical apparatus using vocalized sounds to sing a song automatically
An electronic musical apparatus employs a tone-generator section containing a plurality of tone-generator channels, each consisting of a vowel generation unit and a consonant generation unit which...
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5747716 |
Medley playback apparatus with adaptive editing of bridge part
In a medley playback apparatus, a storage device stores a plurality of performance data corresponding to a plurality of music pieces. A generator device is fed with the performance data to generate...
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5739451 |
Hand held electronic music encyclopedia with text and note structure search
A hand held electronic music reference machine includes a platform having a keyboard and a display for displaying text. A database removably or permanently mounted to the platform has a first...
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5734118 |
MIDI playback system
A MIDI playback system is described in which a sequencer is characterized by: logic for generating a sequence of events, the sequence comprising groups of events, each group comprising events to be...
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5726373 |
Video-song accompaniment apparatus using a compact disc as a recording medium
A CD video-song accompaniment apparatus reproduces information from a compact disc and contains a CD reproducing portion, a CD-OK reproducing portion, and audio selector, and a main controller. The...
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5725383 |
Data transmission system
In a karaoke system, a central terminal and a plurality of karaoke terminals are connected by a coaxial cable. A polling modem modulates a polling signal to a predetermined channel signal and...
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5723802 |
Music instrument which generates a rhythm EKG
A musical instrument including an actuator which generates a plurality of signals in response to being played by a user; an audio synthesizer which generates audio tones in response to control...
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5723803 |
Automatic performance apparatus
In an automatic performance apparatus for creating music piece data by combining automatic performance pattern data, a plurality of automatic performance patterns are stored in advance, and display...
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5719344 |
Method and system for karaoke scoring
A Karaoke system scoring method and system (10) is provided based on detecting, for example, frame energy (19 or 19') of the Karaoke singer and the frame energy of the original artist (29 or 29')....
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5715179 |
Performance evaluation method for use in a karaoke apparatus
A performance evaluation method for use in a karaoke apparatus evaluates a singing performance of a karaoke singer by measuring differences between the karaoke singer's vocal rendition and an...
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5705761 |
Machine composer for adapting pitch succession to musical background
To provide a machine composer capable of efficiently composing natural melodies with a simplified system configuration and without requiring complicated data processing: A melody material storage...
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5703308 |
Karaoke apparatus responsive to oral request of entry songs
A Karaoke apparatus responds to a request message for performing an entry song. The Karaoke apparatus has a music data storage for storing music data representative of a plurality of entry songs,...
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5703310 |
Automatic performance data processing system with judging CPU operation-capacity
An automatic performance data processing system for reading automatic performance data from storage means at a predetermined period and supplying the automatic performance data to a musical sound...
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5698802 |
Music system, tone generator and musical tone-synthesizing method
A music system has a main system and a subsystem. The subsystem synthesizes musical tones, based on waveform data supplied from a cache memory as a temporary memory device, transfers waveform data...
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5696343 |
Automatic playing apparatus substituting available pattern for absent pattern
An automatic playing apparatus registers pattern data representative of a plurality of performance patterns in a storage, and sequentially designates performance patterns to form a music...
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5696344 |
Electronic keyboard instrument for playing music from stored melody and accompaniment tone data
An electronic keyboard instrument which functions to afford an unskilled player the sensation of being a skilled player has a plurality of data storage areas for defining pattern data that...
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5693903 |
Apparatus and method for analyzing vocal audio data to provide accompaniment to a vocalist
A system for interpreting the requests and performance of a vocal soloist, stated in the parlance of the musician and within the context of a specific published edition of music the soloist is...
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5693902 |
Audio block sequence compiler for generating prescribed duration audio sequences
An audio block sequence compiler for selecting a plurality of audio blocks to generate a sequence having a duration corresponding to user-prescribed criteria. In a preferred embodiment, a user...
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5691494 |
Centralized system providing karaoke service and extraneous service to terminals
A Karaoke apparatus, a host apparatus and a management apparatus are interconnected to each other through a communication line to constitute a centralized system. The host apparatus receives an...
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5689081 |
Network karaoke system of broadcast type having supplementary communication channel
In a network karaoke system, a center station transmits song data, and a plurality of karaoke terminals communicate with the center station to receive therefrom the song data so that each karaoke...
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5684261 |
Karaoke device capable of wirelessly transmitting video and audio signals to a television set
A karaoke device includes a song memory unit for storing digital audio data therein; a processing unit operable to retrieve the digital audio data from the song memory unit; an audio synthesizer...
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5679911 |
Karaoke reproducing apparatus which utilizes data stored on a recording medium to make the apparatus more user friendly
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...
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5679912 |
Music production and control apparatus with pitch/tempo control
A music reproduction control apparatus includes: a first storing unit for storing main-digital data; a second storing unit for storing sub-digital data; a first reproducing unit for reproducing...
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5679913 |
Electronic apparatus for the automatic composition and reproduction of musical data
An electronic apparatus for the automatic composition and reproduction of musical accompaniments and/or songs. The apparatus comprises a memory for storing a plurality of multi-track patterns...
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5672837 |
Automatic performance control apparatus and musical data storing device
Measures each contain plural event data, which are memorized in an arrangement of SNG-SONG. 1024 measures (the first measure to 1023-th measure) in each music or in each track of the music are...
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5670730 |
Data protocol and method for segmenting memory for a music chip
A protocol for labeling various types of data contained in a music chip. The protocol includes a hierarchical arrangement of headers for storing information about selections on the chip and the...
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5670729 |
Virtual music instrument with a novel input device
A virtual musical instrument including a hand-held accessory of a type that is intended to be brought into contact with a musical instrument so as to play that instrument. The hand-held accessory...
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5668334 |
Tone data recording and reproducing device
A record and reproduction controlling device is connected to a hard disk memory via a bus. This controlling device receives from a computer information necessary for read/write operation, on the...
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5668337 |
Automatic performance device having a note conversion function
In a memory, there are stored a plurality of first automatic performance data and a plurality of second automatic performance data. Also, first note-conversion-related information is stored...
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5668339 |
Apparatus for multiplexing an audio signal in a video-song playback system
An apparatus for multiplexing audio signals in a disc-shaped video-song medium which includes a plurality of digital audio channels having stereo accompaniment music recorded therein, and a...
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5665927 |
Method and apparatus for inputting musical data without requiring selection of a displayed icon
A musical data inputting apparatus comprising a touch panel for receiving a hand-writing operation thereon detects a figure and/or a symbol drawn on the touch panel by the hand-writing operation,...
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5663515 |
Online system for direct driving of remote karaoke terminal by host station
A karaoke online system is composed of a karaoke station and a karaoke terminal telecommunicable with the karaoke station. The karaoke station has a database for storing a plurality of performance...
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5654517 |
Automatic performance device having a function of modifying tone generation timing
Automatic performance data are stored by recording into a memory event data and timing data in correspondence to desired performance events. In recording the automatic performance data,...
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5644097 |
Performance information output device and an automatic performing system provided with the performance information output device
An automatic performing system provided with a performance information output device that permits external sound sources or other to play a realistic performance by preventing delays in the...
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5641927 |
Autokeying for musical accompaniment playing apparatus
A Karaoke (10) apparatus with autokeying is provided by measuring the average pitch (28) of the singer or user over a predetermined time period, comparing (29) the pitch of the singer or user voice...
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5616877 |
Automatic performace device
An automatic performance device has a RAM for storing automatic performance information formed of time information and performance information containing time change information. A CPU instructs...
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5616878 |
Video-song accompaniment apparatus for reproducing accompaniment sound of particular instrument and method therefor
A video-song accompaniment apparatus includes an accompaniment information memory storing accompaniment information of a song in a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format, a lyrics...
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5616876 |
System and methods for selecting music on the basis of subjective content
An interactive network provides music to subscribers. A "more like" function allows a subscriber to use a seed song to identify other songs that are similar to the seed song, and to add the new...
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5609486 |
Karaoke reproducing apparatus
A Karaoke apparatus in which after one Karaoke play was finished, a show-up effect according to the next Karaoke playing music piece is obtained for a period of time until the start of the next...
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5608178 |
Method of storing and editing performance data in an automatic performance device
A series of the performance data is stored in one or more blocks composing a memory block chain of a memory. The performance order of the blocks is specified by management information stored in a...
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5606144 |
Method of and apparatus for computer-aided generation of variations of a sequence of symbols, such as a musical piece, and other data, character or image sequences
A procedure for generating different variations of a sequence of symbols, such as a musical piece, based on the properties of a chaotic system--most notably, sensitive dependence on the initial...
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5602356 |
Electronic musical instrument with sampling and comparison of performance data
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...
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