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7633003 Performance control apparatus and program therefor  
A performance control apparatus that prevents erroneous key depressions from disturbing musical performance and allow an inexperience player to play at ease. A performance operator is adapted to...
7615702 Automatic recognition and matching of tempo and phase of pieces of music, and an interactive music player based thereon  
A method of matching the tempo and phase in pieces of music which allows the conjunction of the pieces of music to form a continuous stream of music. The interactive music player which digitally...
7592534 Music composition reproduction device and composite device including the same  
A music piece reproduction device comprises a recording section ( 12 ) for recording a plurality of music piece data each possessing a sound data file and a beat guide file containing information...
7582824 Tempo detection apparatus, chord-name detection apparatus, and programs therefor  
There is provided a tempo detection apparatus capable of detecting, from the acoustic signal of a human performance of a musical piece having a fluctuating tempo, the average tempo of the entire...
7579546 Tempo detection apparatus and tempo-detection computer program  
A user is asked to perform tapping at beat positions by using a tapping detection section while listening to the beginning of a waveform from which beats are to be detected. When a fluctuation...
7544880 Playback mode control device and playback mode control method  
A replay mode control device in which the replay mode in reproducing music or video contents is controlled so as to be suitable for a user. A headphone of a mobile music reproducing device is...
7521624 Content reproduction list generation device, content reproduction list generation method, and program-recorded recording medium  
A content reproduction list generation device includes an operation section, a storage section, and a reproduction list generation section. The storage section is configured to store a change...
7521623 Music synchronization arrangement  
The invention generally pertains to a hand-held computing device. More particularly, the invention pertains to a computing device that is capable of controlling the speed of the music so as to...
7435169 Music playing apparatus, storage medium storing a music playing control program and music playing control method  
A game apparatus includes a CPU core, and the CPU core executes a music playing game according to a game program. During the game, a player plays a guitar as if he or she plucks the strings...
7351903 Musical composition data editing apparatus, musical composition data distributing apparatus, and program for implementing musical composition data editing method  
There is provided a musical composition data editing apparatus which enables the generation of musical composition data using which a user can cause his/her own musical image to be reflected to a...
7301092 Method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and video components of multimedia presentations by identifying beats in a music signal  
Methods and systems for detecting a fundamental beat frequency in a predetermined time interval of a music signal are disclosed. The frequency may be detected by processing a music signal with the...
7208672 System and method for structuring and mixing audio tracks  
A system for creating a variation of an audio track from audio building blocks is presented, where track variation may be created during a live performance. Two or more of the presented systems may...
7161079 Audio signal generating apparatus, audio signal generating system, audio system, audio signal generating method, program, and storage medium  
An audio signal generating apparatus is provided which makes it possible to supply a new music entertainment that enables users to actively participate in performance of musical compositions based...
7105735 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument with which, without difficulty to a user, it is possible to reproduce and save and the like the musical tones that the user has performed and to carry this out in...
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...
7080016 Audio information reproduction device and audio information reproduction system  
Audio information is read out of a recording medium which records musical pieces as audio information. The audio information read out is processed to detect BPM values and positions of beats in the...
6933434 Musical tone control system, control method for same, program for realizing the control method, musical tone control apparatus, and notifying device  
There is provided a musical tone control system which is capable of preventing control not intended by the user even when the user stops moving when controlling the generation of musical tones...
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...
6687193 Audio reproduction apparatus having audio modulation function, method used by the apparatus, remixing apparatus using the audio reproduction apparatus, and method used by the remixing apparatus  
An audio reproduction apparatus capable of modulating an audio signal with at least one of reproduction factors, including the speed and direction of reproduction, and the sound pressure of the...
6630621 Apparatus and method for sampling and storing music, and apparatus for outputting music  
An apparatus for sampling partial audio information from audio information and storing it in a memory device provided with: a sampling device for sampling the partial audio information from the...
6518492 System and method of BPM determination  
There is provided an improved system and method of determining the tempo of a digitized musical work that, optionally, allows a user to participate in the BPM determination. A first preferred...
6376758 Electronic score tracking musical instrument  
Embodiments of the present invention comprise an electronic system by which it is possible to have an accompaniment that automatically tracks the performance tempo of a performer. The system is...
6323412 Method and apparatus for real time tempo detection  
A method for real time tempo detection is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio input, downsampling the input, converting the input from time domain data to frequency domain data,...
6316712 Method and apparatus for tempo and downbeat detection and alteration of rhythm in a musical segment  
An apparatus and method for determining the tempo and locating the downbeats of music encoded by an audio track performs a cross-correlation between a click track and a pulse track to indicate...
6307141 Method and apparatus for real-time beat modification of audio and music signals  
A method and apparatus that allows a musician or disk-jockey to jump to selected beats while playing a digital music file. Numeric pads on a user interface access beat pointers which point to the...
6281424 Information processing apparatus and method for reproducing an output audio signal from midi music playing information and audio information  
The MIDI reproducing block has such a sound source as a synthesizer and synthesizes and reproduces electronic sounds sequentially according to entered MIDI playing information, thereby generating...
6207885 System and method for rendition control  
The invention presents a rendition control apparatus that not only reduces processing so that processing is neither complicated nor complex, but also reduces the used storage region. The rendition...
6175072 Automatic music composing apparatus and method  
The apparatus stores a data base including a plurality of sets of composition parameter data for a plurality of numbers of measures, each set of composition parameter data defining characteristics...
6169243 Automatic performance apparatus with quick start by accelerated loading of setting data  
An automatic performance apparatus is constituted by a memory section, a performance section, and a control section. The memory section stores music sequence data used for carrying out an automatic...
6166316 Automatic performance apparatus with variable arpeggio pattern  
An automatic performance apparatus that is responsive to a manual player of an input implement for producing either an arpeggio performance or a pattern performance in a modified form....
6140565 Method of visualizing music system by combination of scenery picture and player icons  
A method is designed for displaying a visual image of a music system that is constructed to play at least one performance part with a particular timbre and that is applied with an acoustic effect,...
6118065 Automatic performance device and method capable of a pretended manual performance using automatic performance data  
As automatic performance data are sequentially supplied at a given tempo, a player sequentially depresses keyboard keys at appropriate timing. Comparison is made between timing of each manual...
6084169 Automatically composing background music for an image by extracting a feature thereof  
An automatic music composing method automatically composes background music matching an atmosphere and a reproduction time of an input moving or changing image. A moving or changing image is...
5973255 Electronic musical instrument utilizing loop read-out of waveform segment  
Among the stored musical waveform in a data format, a waveform segment to be repetitively read out as a loop is designated by a user of the instrument. Upon designation of the waveform segment...
5760324 Automatic performance device with sound stopping feature  
An automatic performance apparatus with the concert magic function includes a memory for storing automatic performance data composed of a sequence of note data. Each note data includes a data of...
5747716 Medley playback apparatus with adaptive editing of bridge part  
In a medley playback apparatus, a storage device stores a plurality of performance data corresponding to a plurality of music pieces. A generator device is fed with the performance data to generate...
5739456 Method and apparatus for performing automatic accompaniment based on accompaniment data produced by user  
In a method for automatically performing accompaniment in an automatic accompaniment apparatus, a plurality of system defining rhythm data patterns are provided. Each of the plurality of system...
5693903 Apparatus and method for analyzing vocal audio data to provide accompaniment to a vocalist  
A system for interpreting the requests and performance of a vocal soloist, stated in the parlance of the musician and within the context of a specific published edition of music the soloist is...
5629491 Tempo control apparatus  
A tempo control signal is generated in response to operation of an operator. A plurality of kinds of tempo control data are stored for controlling tempo of automatic performance of a musical piece...
5602357 Arrangement support apparatus for production of performance data based on applied arrangement condition  
An arrangement support apparatus for producing automatic accompaniment performance data for a musical tune. The musical tune is divided into a plurality of sections, and an arrangement condition is...
5592143 Pulsed-tone timing exercise method  
A pulsed-tone timing method. Pulsed audible guide tones are activated at an initial pulsing rate. The pulsing rate is manipulated so as to repeatable (i) increase the pulsing rate over a time span...
5585586 Tempo setting apparatus and parameter setting apparatus for electronic musical instrument  
A tempo setting apparatus and a parameter setting apparatus for an electronic musical instrument. The tempo setting apparatus automatically plays out a rhythm based on a set of rhythm performance...
5585584 Automatic performance control apparatus  
An automatic performance control apparatus provides a hand controller which contains gyro sensors in X, Y directions. The gyro sensors are employed to accurately detect hand-swing motion applied to...
5521326 Karaoke apparatus selectively sounding natural and false back choruses dependently on tempo and pitch  
A karaoke apparatus operates according to a song data for presenting a karaoke performance composed of an instrumental accompaniment and a back chorus under a designated condition determined in...
5511053 LDP karaoke apparatus with music tempo adjustment and singer evaluation capabilities  
The present invention relates to a laser disk player having a karaoke capability, and more particularly to a laser disk player karaoke apparatus that compares the tempo of a musical selection...
5453570 Karaoke authoring apparatus  
Disclosed is a karaoke authoring apparatus for mixing or authoring karaoke music data based on an electronic music sound source. The invention can analyze chronologically, in a sound reproduction...
5451709 Automatic composer for composing a melody in real time  
A composition conditioning system selects a music structure from a music structure database. The selected music structure specifies a first condition of music composition. A style input specifies a...
5429023 Automatic performance device having a tempo changing function that changes the tempo and automatically restores the tempo to the previous value  
Tempo information representing a performance tempo set at start of an automatic performance is stored in a first register. A tempo restoration switch is provided for reading out the tempo...
5406023 Electronic musical instrument using simplified registration selection  
An electronic musical instrument for realizing an easy selection of registration from a variety of registrations. First, a number from "1" to "10" is selected in an upper keyboard timbre select...
5399801 Electronic musical instrument having an automatic stroke performance function  
A desired rhythm instrument tone color can be assigned to a pad type performance operator. A desired type of repeated-tone mode, e.g., roll, flam or echo, can be selected by a switch operation or...
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