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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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