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7613612 |
Voice synthesizer of multi sounds
In a voice synthesizer, an envelope acquisition portion obtains a spectral envelope of a reference frequency spectrum of a given voice. A spectrum acquisition portion obtains a collective frequency...
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7557288 |
Tone synthesis apparatus and method
In a storage section, there are stored special connecting waveform data for connecting between at least two notes to be generated in succession. The special connecting waveform data contain only a...
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7544879 |
Tone generation processing apparatus and tone generation assignment method therefor
A plurality of tone generator devices include respective waveform data memories, and each of the waveform data memories is exclusively usable by the corresponding tone generator device, not...
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7373209 |
Sound features extracting apparatus, sound data registering apparatus, sound data retrieving apparatus, and methods and programs for implementing the same
The present invention implements a method and an apparatus for retrieving a sound data desired by the user on the basis of its subjective impression over the sound data. The subjective impression...
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7259315 |
Waveform production method and apparatus
Performance event data designating rendition style modules are supplied in order of time. When a given performance event data at a given time is to be processed in accordance with the supplied...
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7253352 |
Music playing/processing device and method for playing music file according to playing order of tones
The present invention relates to a music playing/processing device for playing a musical file in a wireless communication device and determining the playing order of a plurality of tones of the...
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7149682 |
Voice converter with extraction and modification of attribute data
An apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice signal into an output voice signal according to a target voice signal. In the apparatus, an input device provides the input voice signal...
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7135636 |
Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing
A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain)...
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7096186 |
Device and method for analyzing and representing sound signals in the musical notation
Sound signal is received which contains sound characteristics to be represented in musical notation. The characteristics, such as a volume level of the sound signal, are extracted out of the...
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7050573 |
Method of generating ring tones using melody and communication terminal apparatus
In a communication terminal apparatus such as a portable telephone, it is made possible to sound ring tones of good tone quality simply by using arbitrary music or the like. In a communication...
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6931124 |
Soft mute circuit
A soft mute circuit includes a programmable amplifier controlled by a register. Data is stored in the register from an adder that combines the current data in the register with a second number for...
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6911591 |
Rendition style determining and/or editing apparatus and method
Rendition style determining apparatus detects at least one of duration of a first note to be performed at a given time point and time interval between the first note and a second note to be...
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6835886 |
Tone synthesis apparatus and method for synthesizing an envelope on the basis of a segment template
Basic envelope is produced for at least one tone on the basis of performance information. In response to a free selection by a user, a segment template including a characteristic variation curve is...
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6675141 |
Apparatus for converting reproducing speed and method of converting reproducing speed
A method and apparatus for converting the reproducing speed of an acoustic signal where, of the acoustic signals held in a data recording section 1 , the input acoustic signal s 1 (sampled for...
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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...
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6426456 |
Method and apparatus for generating percussive sounds in embedded devices
A percussive sound contains both harmonic and non-harmonic frequency spectral content. To reproduce a particular percussive sound, such as the sound of a drum or cymbal or hand clap, for example,...
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RE37459 |
Electronic musical instrument having a ryhthm performance function
An electronic musical instrument having a rhythm performance function includes a first memory for pre-storing plural rhythm tone kinds, rhythm selecting switches each capable of designating one of...
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6255576 |
Device and method for forming waveform based on a combination of unit waveforms including loop waveform segments
Sets of waveform data of unit waveforms stored in a memory each include first and second loop waveform segments at both ends of a non-loop waveform segment and any one of the unit waveform data...
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6148086 |
Method and apparatus for replacing a voice with an original lead singer's voice on a karaoke machine
A voice replacing method and system that uses the volume of the karaoke user's voice to control the volume of the lead singer's original vocal outputted to the audience. The volume of an original...
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6121533 |
Method and apparatus for generating random weighted musical choices
An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory....
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6111183 |
Audio signal synthesis system based on probabilistic estimation of time-varying spectra
The present invention describes methods and means for estimating the time-varying spectrum of an audio signal based on a conditional probability density function (PDF) of spectral coding vectors...
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6101469 |
Formant shift-compensated sound synthesizer and method of operation thereof
For use in a synthesizer having a wave source that produces a periodic wave, frequency shifting circuitry for frequency-shifting the periodic wave and waveshaping circuitry for transforming the...
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6091012 |
Tone effect imparting apparatus
There are provided a tone source for generating tone signals in plural channels independently and effect impartment sections, provided in corresponding relations to the channels, for imparting...
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6064743 |
Wavetable audio synthesizer with waveform volume control for eliminating zipper noise
A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects, at either a 44.1 KHz sample...
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6051770 |
Method and apparatus for composing original musical works
A system and method for creating and composing musical works by selecting existing musical elements and applying modification modules to them. Existing musical selections reside in a database as...
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6011213 |
Synthesis of sounds played on plucked string instruments, using computers and synthesizers
A sound synthesizer for a plucked string instrument simulates noises and transients produced before and after and during the transitions between notes. A particularly convincing synthesis of a...
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5998725 |
Musical sound synthesizer and storage medium therefor
A musical sound synthesizer generates a predetermined singing sound based on performance data. A compression device determines whether each of a plurality of phonemes forming the predetermined...
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5977469 |
Real-time waveform substituting sound engine
A sound engine in a processor-based system utilizing real-time synthesis optimizes synthesis time, maximizes the number of fully-synthesized sound requests and preserves currently excessive sound...
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5949011 |
Configurable tone generator chip with selectable memory chips
A tone generator chip is formed of a semiconductor substrate and is configurable under different operation modes in combination with memories accessible via external buses for generating a tone by...
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5945621 |
Musical tone control apparatus with envelope processing
In a musical tone control apparatus, musical tones to be generated are controlled according to musical tone control parameters which include an envelope that has been extracted and processed. The...
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5942709 |
Audio processor detecting pitch and envelope of acoustic signal adaptively to frequency
An audio apparatus extracts information of a musical performance from an acoustic signal having a frequency and an amplitude, which time-vary during the musical performance. In the audio apparatus,...
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5942707 |
Tone generation method with envelope computation separate from waveform synthesis
An electronic musical apparatus utilizes a central processing unit for working a player module, driver module, sound source module and timing module, while controlling a work load of the central...
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5936181 |
System and method for applying a role-and register-preserving harmonic transformation to musical pitches
This invention relates to a system and method for altering the harmonic referent of segments of a music composition while maintaining the register of the musical segments and their conformity to a...
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5925842 |
Electronic music tone generator with power saving control
A waveform generator LSI generates waveform data in units of time slots corresponding to tone generation channels in accordance with tone control data assigned to the individual channels, and...
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5920843 |
Signal parameter track time slice control point, step duration, and staircase delta determination, for synthesizing audio by plural functional components
The present invention provides a system and a method for tracking parameters of a synthesized an! audio signal that reduces the amount of processing time without causing any discernible...
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5895879 |
Musical tone-generating method and apparatus capable of approximating envelope characteristic of a waveform of a musical tone by a polygonal line
A musical tone waveform sample is generated at each sampling time by the use of a processing unit carrying out an arithmetic operation every repetition period that is longer than the sampling time....
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5869781 |
Tone signal generator having a sound effect function
A tone signal generator includes a tone signal data generating device, a signal data generating device, and a sound effects imparting device, such as a digital signal processor. The sound effects...
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5854438 |
Process for the simulation of sympathetic resonances on an electronic musical instrument
To simulate sympathetic resonances for an electronic musical instrument, during the playing of free notes an excited notes, updating takes place of a first list (26) of free notes and their...
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5831194 |
Electronic keyboard musical instrument capable of imparting effect similar to that of soft pedal
An electronic keyboard musical instrument is responsive to a step-on of a soft pedal so as to impart effects similar to those of a soft pedal of an acoustic piano to an electronic sound; a tone...
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5824936 |
Apparatus and method for approximating an exponential decay in a sound synthesizer
A linear approximation to an exponential decay function exploits the characteristic of an exponential function that, at equal time intervals, the ratio of a parameter value at the beginning of the...
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5808220 |
Method for establishing a structured timbre data base with a sound wave table
The present invention relates to a method for establishing a structured timbre base with a sound wave table and, more particularly, to a method for establishing a structured timbre data file...
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5804751 |
Electronic musical instrument for electronically generating tone together with resonant sound variable in response to pedal action
In order to change an electronic sound between a piano sound generated without manipulation of a damper pedal and a piano sound generated under manipulation of the damper pedal, an electronic...
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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...
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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...
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5763805 |
Performance information transmitter and/or receiver for a performance information system
A performance information transmission system includes a performance information transmitter device and a performance information receiver device which are capable of correcting transmission errors...
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5761643 |
Time-sharing of audio informaiton memory by two processors having different operation execution cycles
An apparatus for processing the speech information includes a first execution device and a second execution device for executing operations at respective different execution cycles, and a first...
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RE35813 |
Tone signal generation device with resonance tone effect
A circuit for adding a resonance tone to a tone signal to be generated is provided. When a damper operator is not operated, the resonance tone is not added but an ordinary tone signal is generated....
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5744741 |
Digital signal processing device for sound signal processing
A plurality of digital signal processors are provided in parallel relation to each other, and a series of operations for desired sound signal synthesis or processing is divided into a plurality of...
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5714704 |
Musical tone-generating method and apparatus and waveform-storing method and apparatus
A method of generating musical tones is provided. Data indicative of waveforms including at least a first predetermined waveform and a second predetermined waveform are stored in a first storage...
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5666432 |
Apparatus for and method of sound recording in electronic sound control system
A start portion of sampled sound data is cleared, and the resultant sound data free from the start portion is modified into data increasing gradually from level "0". Thus, noise in the start...
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