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7622665 Filter device and electronic musical instrument using the filter device  
In a filter device, a filter coefficient calculation circuit has a parameter table. The parameter table stores a plurality of sets of filter coefficients associated with a first parameter based on...
7598448 Preliminary data producer correlating music data with actual motion, automatic player and musical instrument  
An automatic player piano is equipped with a preliminary data producer comprising an experimental routine and an editor; a motion controller forces each of the black and white keys to travel on a...
7576280 Expressing music  
Expressing a musical work includes identifying a series of musical moments in the musical work and electronically specifying values for levels of each musical moment in the series. The...
7572970 Digital piano apparatus, method for synthesis of sound fields for digital piano, and computer-readable storage medium  
A digital piano apparatus includes an input unit including a plurality of keys and a plurality of pedals, a sound source unit, a sound field synthesizing unit, and a speaker unit. The sound field...
7569762 RF-based dynamic remote control for audio effects devices or the like  
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless remote control of devices, where the sensing/transmitting device is worn by, or affixed to, the operator, and responds in real-time to...
7547839 Performance data processing apparatus, performance data processing method, and computer readable medium containing program for implementing the method  
An automatic performance data processing apparatus which makes it possible to simply convert a plurality of automatic performance data into digital audio data in a batch. Each of a plurality of...
7541536 Multi-sound effect system including dynamic controller for an amplified guitar  
The proposed invention is a portable multi-sound effect system providing a novel and unique solution for processing the electrical audio signals created by a guitar. The innovation according to the...
7538267 Kernel-mode audio processing modules  
Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data...
7525038 Effect system  
The disclosure presented here involves an effect device that can easily connect with other effect devices in parallel. A preferred embodiment of this device is equipped with a number of components...
7525034 Method and apparatus for image interpretation into sound  
A method for interpreting an image into sound is provided and includes scanning an image to provide a plurality of scanned elements which are assigned a value and an associated sound element. The...
7521626 Automatic player musical instrument, testing system incorporated therein and method for specifying half pedal point  
A testing system is incorporated in an automatic player piano for specifying a half pedal point of a damper pedal at which the loudness of tones is lessened, and an automatic player moves the...
7512246 Stereo sounding method, stereo sounding system, and musical tone generation control system  
A stereo sounding method which can provide realistic sounds such as stereo sounds for a large number of listeners while reducing the number of speakers. A stereo sounding system is comprised of a...
7489599 Optical disc reproducing apparatus  
There is provided an optical disc reproducing apparatus which reads out data from an optical disc, stores the data, and reproduces the stored data. The apparatus includes: a casing; an operation...
7482531 Integrated digital control for stringed musical instrument  
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated digital control apparatus ( 10 ) for a stringed musical instrument. In some embodiments, the apparatus ( 10 ) generally includes an input...
7470855 Tone control apparatus and method  
Rendition style parameters for realizing various release rendition styles and/or attack rendition styles are stored in a memory. Operation-related time lengths are detected which pertain to...
7432437 Apparatus and computer program for playing arpeggio with regular pattern and accentuated pattern  
An arpeggio playing apparatus comprises an arpeggio pattern storing device, an arpeggio pattern readout device and an arpeggio tone processing device. The arpeggio pattern storing device stores at...
7432435 Tone synthesis apparatus and method  
Dynamics value is acquired intermittently at predetermined time periods, and a waveform data set for a sustain tone, corresponding to the acquired dynamics value, is specified from among waveform...
7429699 Electronic musical instrument and recording medium that stores processing program for the electronic musical instrument  
In an electronic musical instrument, when a musical tone delay time T 1 read from a delay time table TBL depending on a velocity generated by a key being pressed has elapsed, a hammer...
7427708 Tone color setting apparatus and method  
As the user executes a performance on a preliminary or trial basis, performance data based on the user's performance are evaluated, a performance tendency of the user is extracted as a result of...
7426417 Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing  
Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for...
7423214 System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist  
A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of...
7420113 Rendition style determination apparatus and method  
On the basis of performance event information, at least two notes to be sounded in succession or in an overlapping relation to each other are detected, and a tone pitch difference between the...
7394010 Performance apparatus and tone generation method therefor  
A Plurality of key switches for tone-generating are arranged two-dimensionally. Mode setting section sets a tone adjusting mode in which the key switches are caused to function as tone-adjusting...
7381882 Performance control apparatus and storage medium  
A performance control apparatus which can reflect operations carried out by a user on variations in dynamics in real time to achieve performance expressions such as crescendo and decrescendo. A...
7381880 Musical instrument recording advanced music data codes for playback, music data generator and music data source for the musical instrument  
In order to precisely express motion of a key or motion of a hammer, a voice message for the polyphonic key pressure and another voice message for the control change, which stand idle in an...
7361825 Electronic keyboard instrument  
In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key...
7356465 Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound  
The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114 , in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data...
7314995 Data acquisition system preparing inner force sense data for inner sense controller  
A data acquisition system is used in the transplantation of the piano key touch from an acoustic piano to an electronic piano, and the function thereof is broken down into a table producer, a...
7309828 Hysteresis waveshaping  
This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually...
7285718 Keyboard musical instrument and other-type musical instrument, and method for generating tone-generation instructing information  
Detector detects movement of a hammer (driven member) that strikes a string (abutted member) by moving in response to operation of a key. On the basis of detection outputs of the detector and a...
7271330 Rendition style determination apparatus and computer program therefor  
There is provided a rendition style selector operable by a user to select a desired rendition style from among a plurality of rendition styles associated with a plurality of portions of tones. In...
7265281 Automatic player musical instrument having playback table partially prepared through transcription from reference table and computer program used therein  
An automatic player piano is only equipped with key sensors, and the automatic player is expected to give rise to hammer motion to be varied together with the loudness of tones; the manufacturer...
7227069 Insertable piano/keyboard strip for sensing key movement  
A portable modular device for the purpose of sensing key movement of a piano or keyboard, processing key movement information, and communicating at least key-note ON/OFF and key-note velocity...
7186910 Musical tone generating apparatus and musical tone generating computer program  
A plurality of play style dependence tone colors belonging to one kind of musical instrument tone color but being different from one another in terms of play styles are respectively assigned to...
7176373 Interactive performance interface for electronic sound device  
An Interactive Performance Interface for use with an audio system uses at least one performance mode to provide access to control rate and audio rate signals activated by interaction rate signals...
7094965 Waveform data analysis method and apparatus suitable for waveform expansion/compression control  
Filtering is performed on original waveform to remove components of a predetermined frequency band from the waveform, and dividing positions of the original waveform data are determined on the...
7081580 Computing device to allow for the selection and display of a multimedia presentation of an audio file and to allow a user to play a musical instrument in conjunction with the multimedia presentation  
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...
7060885 Music reproduction system, music editing system, music editing apparatus, music editing terminal unit, music reproduction terminal unit, method of controlling a music editing apparatus, and program for executing the method  
There is provided a music reproduction system which enables music editing and acoustic effect application by simple operations, for realizing a desired musical concept in an operator's mind. An...
7005571 MIDI controller pedalboard  
A MIDI controller pedalboard for composing and playing music such as pipe organ music is disclosed. The MIDI controller pedalboard provides pedals, and switches for the playing of notes and the...
6974901 Kernal-mode audio processing modules  
Multiple kernel-mode audio processing modules or filters are combined to form a module or filter graph. The graph is implemented in kernel-mode, reducing latency and jitter when handling audio data...
6969798 Apparatus, method and computer program for imparting tone effects to musical tone signals  
A music performance data signal contains tone effect control messages to control the tone signal processor for imparting tone effects to the produced musical tones in a high-ranked model of tone...
6951977 Method and device for smoothing a melody line segment  
A tone smoothing is performed such that to each time section of a melody line segment a number is associated such that for all groups of directly neighboring time sections, to which the same...
6946594 Method for reproducing the sound of an accordion electronically  
Method for electronically reproducing the sound of an acoustic accordion, that is provided with a number of keys/buttons, which can be pressed individually so as to excite a corresponding number of...
6946592 Plectrum for a string instrument, a transmitter/receiver arrangement and a signal processing apparatus  
A plectrum for a stringed musical instrument having a plurality of conductive strings is provided with a non-conductive body and a conductive tip. The conductive tip is sized so as to fleetingly...
6940005 Keyboard musical instrument for exactly producing tones and hammer sensor varying output signal exactly representing physical quantity of hammer  
A hammer sensor includes a photo-filter plate movable together with a hammer assembly and having a base plate fixed to the hammer shank and an arc pattern formed on the base plate and different in...
6909041 Sound field control method and sound field control system  
Reverberation characteristics of an original sound field and a reproduction sound field are measured and a difference between the reverberation characteristics is obtained. A reflected sound...
6906695 Touch control apparatus and touch control method that can be applied to electronic instrument  
A touch curve memory 110 stores therein a touch curve formed by velocity values corresponding to touch data generated by a keyboard device 20 . A correction coefficient generator 10 generates...
6872877 Musical tone-generating method  
A method of generating musical tones and a storage medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. Musical piece data is decomposed into phrases, the musical piece data being formed...
6856923 Method for analyzing music using sounds instruments  
A method for analyzing digital-sounds using sound-information of instruments and/or score-information is provided. Particularly, sound-information of instruments which were used or which are being...
6750390 Automatic performing apparatus and electronic instrument  
An automatic performing apparatus and an electronic instrument with which a user can carry out an automatic musical performance, even for a complicated arrangement, simply by providing external...
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