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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...
7124084 Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium  
There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in...
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...
6946595 Performance data processing and tone signal synthesizing methods and apparatus  
Each time a predetermined type of note controlling performance data (e.g., note-on event data) is detected from among a series of performance data, deviation values for a plurality of channels,...
6782105 Reflection sound generator with series of main and supplementary FIR filters  
A reflection sound generator has a first filter of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) type that is provided with a first set of parameters representing a first distribution pattern of reflection sounds,...
6486389 Method and apparatus for producing a waveform with improved link between adjoining module data  
When adjoining, i.e. Preceding and succeeding, waveform-forming module data are to be interlined, a mutual approaching rate is designated, and the preceding and succeeding module data are modified...
6483922 Method and system for generating a simulated reverberation audio signal  
A method and apparatus for generating a simulated reverberation characteristic in an input audio signal having a plurality of channels, each channel transmitting time-synchronized data elements....
6365817 Method and apparatus for producing a waveform with sample data adjustment based on representative point  
Set of sample identification information and representative-point designating data is generated in accordance with performance data or the like, and sample data is obtained by referring to a...
6284964 Method and apparatus for producing a waveform exhibiting rendition style characteristics on the basis of vector data representative of a plurality of sorts of waveform characteristics  
A waveform producing method includes a step of producing a waveform presenting style-of-rendition characteristics corresponding to style-of-rendition identification information, on the basis of...
6169240 Tone generating device and method using a time stretch/compression control technique  
A pitch of a tone to be generated is designated, and simultaneously control information to be used for time-axis stretch/compression control is generated. Discrete locations of waveform data to be...
6150598 Tone data making method and device and recording medium  
A succession of performance sounds is sampled, and the sampled performance sounds are divided into a plurality of time sections of variable lengths in accordance with respective characteristics of...
6047073 Digital wavetable audio synthesizer with delay-based effects processing  
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...
5789689 Tube modeling programmable digital guitar amplification system  
An electric guitar amplifier which utilizes a digital signal processor to produce vacuum-tube-like distortion without certain unwanted audio artifacts created by previous digital realizations of...
5781636 Method and apparatus for generating sounds with tremolo and vibrato sound effects  
A digital sound generator with tremolo and vibrato sound effects is provided, which comprises: a source memory for storing different types of wave-tables; a first adder for adding a constant...
5740716 System and method for sound synthesis using a length-modulated digital delay line  
A sound synthesis system employs a variable-length delay line whose length is modulated at a frequency that is close to the fundamental frequency of the delay line. By modulating the length of the...
5677504 Tone signal generator  
A tone signal generator includes a plurality of tone generation channels, and a tone generation control data memory for storing instruction data for instructing tone generation or tone release and...
5668338 Wavetable audio synthesizer with low frequency oscillators for tremolo and vibrato effects  
A digital wavetable audio synthesizer with an LFO generator is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects. The...
5642470 Singing voice synthesizing device for synthesizing natural chorus voices by modulating synthesized voice with fluctuation and emphasis  
Music information and word information are input to a music/word information input unit. A voice part extracting unit extracts note length information, pitch information, loudness information, and...
5559300 Delay time modulation effecting apparatus for processing musical tone signal  
A delay-time-modulation effecting apparatus employed by an electronic musical instrument or the like, is designed to effect a certain delay-time modulation on a musical tone signal so as to realize...
5550320 Electronic sound generating device for generating musical sound by adding volume fluctuation to predetermined harmonics  
An electronic sound generating device is proposed which can generate sound that is complex, profound and high in fidelity to acoustic sound. Sound of the acoustic instruments consists of a...
5488196 Electronic musical re-performance and editing system  
A music re-performance system allows a plurality of untrained instrumentalist to play pre-stored music using traditional playing techniques along with an automatic accompaniment at a tempo...
5426260 Device and method for reading sound waveform data  
A device for reading sound waveform data has a waveform ROM for storing waveform data represented as an amplitude in a time series. Sound waveform data is repeatedly read from the waveform ROM. The...
5414210 Multiple oscillator electronic musical instrument having a reduced number of sub-oscillators and direct-read/write of modulation control signals  
An electronic musical instrument according to the present invention has oscillators for generating a tone waveform; a modulator for modulating a musical tone; a modulation controller for...
5412152 Device for forming tone source data using analyzed parameters  
Tone waveform data is divided into plural data segments, so that frequency and magnitude of respective spectra contained therein are analyzed for each of the data segments. Analyzation parameters...
5387759 Automatic performance apparatus using separately stored note and technique data for reducing performance data storage requirements  
An automatic performance apparatus stores performance technique designating data and an automatic performance data in a sequence memory, and performance technique data which varies in a lapse of...
5298676 Tone parameter control apparatus  
A plurality of groups of tone parameters different in kind required for the generation of a musical sound is stored. The tone parameters of the same kind among those tone parameters are modulated...
5272276 Electronic musical instrument adapted to simulate a rubbed string instrument  
The electronic musical instrument, which is suitable for generating sustaining tone of a rubbed string instrument, has a manipulator for achieving performance manipulation in a linear manipulation...
5258574 Tone generator for storing and mixing basic and differential wave data  
A tone generator comprises a basic wave memory for storing a first basic wave data of a musical tone signal, a differential wave memory for storing differential wave data between the first basic...
5254805 Electronic musical instrument capable of adding musical effect to musical tones  
An electronic musical instrument has a low frequency oscillator (LFO) for generating a low-frequency signal to impart musical effect such as vibrato to musical tones, and a plurality of tone...
5243658 Modulation effect adding apparatus  
A modulation effect adding apparatus in which when an input signal is written into a memory and read and output with a given delay time, the delay time is changed depending on an LFO waveform to...
5243124 Electronic musical instrument using FM sound generation with delayed modulation effect  
A computer having one or more wave tables stored therein is used to synthesize sounds represented by a series of digital samples produced at a sample rate by specifying parameters including a...
5208415 Fluctuation generator for use in electronic musical instrument  
A fluctuation generator for use in an electronic musical instrument comprises uniform random generator for generating a random number having a uniform probability distribution, and a function...
5136916 Electronic musical instrument  
An electroic musical instrument of the present invention is provided with a damper control as well as tone generation instructin device and tone generation device. While the damper control is...
5074184 Controllable electronic musical instrument  
A controllable electronic musical instrument is disclosed as including tone pitch-assigning devices for assigning pitches to musical tones to be generated, manually operable members for producing...
5060270 Reverberation circuit  
A reverberation circuit comprises an amplifier, attenuation circuit, a feedback component, and a delay circuit. The amplifier, delay circuit, and feedback component form a feedback loop. The...
5050216 Effector for electronic musical instrument  
An input waveform signal is converted in an A/D converter into a digital signal to be written in a waveform memory under control of a tone generation control unit. The written digital signal is...
5036541 Modulation effect device  
A modulation effect device is implemented by utilizing a fact that a phase or frequency of an output signal from a digital filter can be varied by varying a filter-coefficient according to a lapse...
5027690 Electronic musical keyboard instruments with variable touch sensitivity  
An electronic musical instrument having a keyboard, includes a plurality of keys, a plurality of musical tone signal generation systems, a touch detector for producing touch data representing a key...
5010799 Electronic keyboard instrument with key displacement sensors  
An electronic keyboard instrument has a plurality of key displacement sensors disposed in relation to respective keys of a keyboard. Each sensor detects a continuously variable key displacement...
4957030 Electronic musical instrument having a vibrato effecting capability  
An electronic musical instrument capable of effecting vibratos with any of tones which may be produced by pressing down the keys of a keyboard. A key constant memory stores key constants each being...
4920851 Automatic musical tone generating apparatus for generating musical tones with slur effect  
The automatic musical tone generating apparatus for generating musical tones with slur effect includes a pitch information storing device, a read-out device for reading out pitch information at a...
4915007 Parameter setting system for electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument has a parameter setting system for setting a parameter necessary for controlling a musical characteristic which is a tone color or a musical effect such as a...
4653374 Electronic musical instrument with a bender provided separately from performance keys  
A digital pitch bend signal is supplied from an A/D converter to a first coefficient multiplier for every predetermined sampling period. An output of the first coefficient multiplier is added with...
4628789 Tone effect imparting device  
Tone signals from plural keyboard systems are supplied to an effect imparting circuit via a distribution circuit. The effect imparting circuit comprises plural effect imparting channels and the...
4617851 Hybrid electronic musical instrument  
Two electronic musical instruments are supported in combination on a stand. The electronic musical instruments have respective switch sections each for setting a plurality of different timbres...
4602546 Automatic music playing apparatus  
Melody information representing pitches and durations of tones is stored in a first area of a RAM whose addresses are designated by a first address counter of an address register. Performance...
4569268 Modulation effect device for use in electronic musical instrument  
A modulation effect device for use in an electronic musical instrument which utilizes, as a digital modulation circuit, a digital memory device for storing digitized musical tone signals. The...
4558624 Effect imparting device in an electronic musical instrument  
Analog output signals of a key touch sensor and tonal effect setting manual operators are respectively time division multiplexed and thereafter are converted to digital signals by using an analog...
4539885 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument which employs frequency numbers and is capable of producing a natural and expressive effect such as vibrato or the like with a simple structure. The electronic...
4528884 Wave reading apparatus  
A wave reading apparatus includes a wave generator for generating a plurality of wave signals, a read-out frequency generator for generating a plurality of read-out frequencies, a controller for...
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