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7619156 Position correction for an electronic musical instrument  
A system and method for correction of finger positions for an electronic musical instrument. By adding a correction step in the direction of a nearest grid value, the system can perform correction...
7612280 Intelligent audio selector  
A digital music player includes an audio file selector that selects a subsequent audio file to play from a collection of audio files based upon a desired relationship between an audio...
7544881 Music-piece classifying apparatus and method, and related computer program  
A bibliographic-information impression word is generated from a bibliographic information segment about selected one of music pieces. An acoustic feature quantity of an audio signal representing...
7541534 Methods and apparatus for rendering audio data  
An audio management application includes a recombiner and aggregation rules to manipulate and recombine segments of a musical piece such that the resulting finished composition includes parts...
7511214 Automatic performance apparatus for reproducing music piece  
A CPU 21 sequentially changes over plural music pieces and reproduces the same by a program processing. Upon the changeover of the music piece, the volume of the tone signal that is being...
7468481 Method of displaying directory structure of recorded data  
The present invention relates to a method of displaying directories differently based on attributes of files included therein. The present method examines a directory structure and the attributes...
7450971 Telecommunication terminal apparatus  
A CPU 10 operates in response to an instruction for starting reproduction of a melody to read out tone color data and tempo data included in selected musical composition data from a RAM 11 or a...
7420115 Memory access controller for musical sound generating system  
In an access controller provided for a musical sound signal generating system, a signal generating section operates when a readout of wave data of one block stored in a working memory is completed...
7326847 Methods and systems for dynamic channel allocation  
Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation. The provided methods and systems can be employed in a music synthesis system comprising a synthesizer. Audio instructions from sources, such as...
7285712 Method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number according to operation mode and smoothly changing polyphony number when switching operation modes  
A method of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device, which has S tone generators. First, an operation mode of the electronic device is detected. Next, a...
7069058 Musical composition reproducing apparatus portable terminal musical composition reproducing method and storage medium  
There is provided a musical composition-reproducing device and a musical composition-reproducing method that make it possible to make the most of many sounding channels and are capable of imparting...
7045700 Method and apparatus for playing a digital music file based on resource availability  
A method and corresponding equipment by which a synthesizer/MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) device ( 10 ) is able to optimally perform a MIDI file ( 11 ) taking into account not the...
7039477 Device and method for processing tone data by controlling sampling rate  
From a storage device storing waveform sample data sampled at a given sampling rate, the waveform sample data are read out asynchronously with the given sampling rate and temporarily stored in an...
6972362 Method and device for generating electronic sounds and portable apparatus utilizing such device and method  
An electronic sound generation device is adapted to start arithmetic processing with a start signal. When the arithmetic processing is not completed in a period between two sampling signals of a...
6960713 Portable telephone  
A portable telephone produces either beep sound or melody sound as incoming call sound. The melody sound is produced based on music data, which are stored in advance or downloaded from the...
6678680 Music search engine  
A music search method for finding a desired song in a song database. The method comprises generating a difference sequence for each song in the song database by determining the relative difference...
6611592 Incoming-call tone generation device  
A incoming-call tone generation device comprises: a first storage unit 1 , for storing an effect calculation formula for incoming-call tone data; a second storage unit, for storing incoming-call...
6509519 Method and apparatus for generating musical tone waveforms by user input of sample waveform frequency  
A method and apparatus for generating musical tones are provided. Musical tones are generated based on musical tone waveform samples generated through a plurality of channels, and performance...
6476305 Method and apparatus for modifying musical performance data  
A data modifying apparatus having: a memory that stores modification data for modifying data; a detecting unit for detecting each data group from performance data, the data group being unable to be...
6414232 Tone generation method and apparatus based on software  
Arithmetic processor executes waveform generation software on the basis of a received tone generation instruction, to thereby generate tone waveform data in a plurality of channels. The tone...
6362410 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument having a single-tone priority function includes touch detection value storage means for storing a touch detection value that pertains to an ON key, priority key...
6355872 Random play control method and apparatus for disc player  
Disclosed is a random play control method and apparatus for a disc player. According to the random play control method and apparatus, music information is read out from discs inserted in N (N≧2)...
6320112 Procedure and device for the automatic selection of musical and/or tonal compositions  
A process for the automatic selection of musical or tonal compositions to be replayed from a collection of musical or tonal compositions includes the step of assigning evaluation data to each of...
6316711 Musical sound signal generation apparatus  
A musical sound signal generation apparatus for producing a sound corresponding to an operated key can produce a sound of a newly-operated key even if all the musical sound signal generation means...
6140566 Music tone generating method by waveform synthesis with advance parameter computation  
Musical tones are produced according to song data basically by three steps. The first step converts the song data sequentially into control parameters. The control parameters are written into a...
RE36910 Electronic musical instrument creating timbre by optimum synthesis mode  
An electronic musical instrument has a composite sound source for generating a musical tone, and includes a first synthesizing circuit for creating a variety of timbres of the musical tone having a...
6069311 Electronic musical instrument having mother board communicable with plug-in board  
An electronic musical instrument is constructed on a mother board for editing a parameter of an extension board necessary for generating a music tone while monitoring the parameter according to...
6034315 Signal processing apparatus and method and information recording apparatus  
A signal processing apparatus is provided with: a music tone judging device for judging a music tone or genre of a music composition composed of an input audio signal: a selecting device for...
6011214 Keyboard instruments having hammer stopper outwardly extending from hammer shank and method of remodeling piano into the keyboard instrument  
A stopper, a driver unit, key and pedal sensors, a sound processing unit and a sound system are installed in an acoustic piano so as to remodel the acoustic piano into a keyboard musical instrument...
5959232 Electronic musical instrument and a method of dynamic channel assignment for solo and non-solo tones  
An electronic musical instrument having a plurality of tone generation channels includes a solo tone channel assignment means and a non-solo tone channel assignment means. The solo tone channel...
5898118 Computerized music apparatus composed of compatible software modules  
A computerized music apparatus utilizes resources including software modules to generate desired musical sound. In the apparatus, a primary storage is loadable with a set of software modules which...
5874687 Keyboard instrument having hammer stopper outwardly extending from hammer shank and method of remodeling piano into the keyboard instrument  
a stopper, a driver unit, key and pedal sensors, a sound processing unit and a sound system are installed in an acoustic piano so as to remodel the acoustic piano into a keyboard musical instrument...
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...
5783766 Musical sound producing device in electronic musical instrument  
A musical sound producing device in an electronic musical instrument of stereophonic sampling system, including: an oscillator using status memory for storing each order of right and left...
5712438 Electronic musical instrument with classified registration of timbre variations  
A timbre information registration apparatus registers timbre variations which have different instrumental attributes and different modification degrees such that the registered timbre variations...
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...
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...
5691495 Electronic musical instrument with synchronized control on generation of musical tones  
An electronic musical instrument comprises a sequencer which acts as an automatic performance apparatus, so the sequencer provides automatic performance data in a MIDI-standard form. Upon receipt...
5686682 Electronic musical instrument capable of assigning waveform samples to divided partial tone ranges  
An electronic musical instrument stores a plurality of waveform samples. A predetermined number of waveform samples are selected from the plurality of waveform samples. Pitch information for...
5449857 Electronic musical instrument capable of free edit and trial of data hierarchy  
An electronic musical instrument is constructed to carry out an edit work of control parameters and a trial play for evaluation of the edit work. The control parameters are registered in a...
5410099 Channel assigning system for use in an electronic musical instrument  
A channel assigning system which effects an assignment of a channel other than a predetermined number channels which are preferentially assigned to any part of a piece of music, to a part thereof....
5380949 Key assigner for an electronic musical instrument having multiple tone channels and priority level value data  
A key assigner for an electronic musical instrument having multiple tone channels for tone signals generated by tone signal generator means controlled by a tone signal generation instruction input...
5340940 Musical tone generation apparatus capable of writing/reading parameters at high speed  
A musical tone generation apparatus is provided with a plurality of tone generation channels, a first memory for storing musical tone parameter including tone color specifying parameter, i.e., tone...
5286910 Electronic musical instrument having automatic channel-assigning function  
An electronic musical instrument provides plural channels from which manual-performance sounds and/or automatic-performance sounds (e.g., automatic-accompaniment sounds) are generated. Herein, the...
5280129 Assigning device which assigns new musical tones to tone-generating channels based upon a successive strike relation among the channels  
An assigning device of an electronic musical instrument for selecting a musical tone-generating channel to assign a new musical tone is disclosed. The object of the invention is to minimize the...
5276274 Electronic musical instrument with any key play mode  
In an electronic musical instrument with an ANY KEY mode which regards keys as a single one-key, an ON event in a non-operation state is valid, and a one-key play operation is advanced by one tone.
5252774 Electronic musical instrument having resonance tone generation  
An electronic musical instrument including a keyboard, a CPU and a sound source. The keyboard designates a pitch of a musical tone. The CPU detects common pitch data of one of predetermined series...
5241128 Automatic accompaniment playing device for use in an electronic musical instrument  
Respecting plural accompaniment patterns belonging to a common accompaniment style, an order is predetermined in which accompaniment patterns are sequentially changed. For example, this order may...
5235126 Chord detecting device in an automatic accompaniment-playing apparatus  
In an automatic accompaniment-playing apparatus, when an accompaniment pattern corresponding to a detected chord is not stored as information in a memory, an accompaniment pattern as information...
5229533 Electronic musical instrument for storing musical play data having multiple tone colors  
An instrument for storing musical playing data includes tone color assignment switch for assigning each of the designated tone colors to each of the recording tracks and record control device for...
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