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6008446 Synthesizer system utilizing mass storage devices for real time, low latency access of musical instrument digital samples  
A synthesizer system includes a CPU and host memory operating a software routine. The software routine stores a first part of each waveform signal in a sample pool of host memory and provides...
5131309 Performance recording/reproducing apparatus enabling correction or modification of playing information  
The invention provides a performance recording/reproducing apparatus including a playing information recording device, a data discrimination device and a data transfer device. The data...
5113741 Performance recording apparatus for recording information used to control music generation instruments  
The invention provides performance recording apparatus for separately recording plural event data, each corresponding to an electronic instrument, as plural channels of playing information onto...
5038660 Recording medium playing apparatus with program discontinuity response  
A recording medium playing apparatus comprises a reading device for reading, from an information recording medium on which a sub-program signal carrying a musical instrument play control signal is...
RE33607 Auto-playing apparatus  
Data for a plurality of musical pieces is preset in a ROM pack and also on a tape recorder. Musical piece data read out from the ROM pack or tape recorder is supplied from a control section to...
4922794 Electronic musical instrument having external memory devices  
An electronic musical instrument includes a musical tone information storing device, a plurality of external memory devices, a control unit, a switching unit, and a determining unit. The musical...
4847710 Multitrack recording apparatus which stops the recording medium on the basis of recorded musical timing data  
A multitrack recording apparatus includes a multi-channel recorder for recording musical timing data on a recording medium, a modulator for variably setting a recording cycle of the musical timing...
4694724 Synchronizing signal generator for musical instrument  
In a synchronized sound recording and reproducing system including a tape recorder to playback a tape carrying time code information indicative of particular longitudinal locations of the tape, a...
4615024 Electronic apparatus with magnetic recording and reproducing device  
Tone data produced by operating a keyboard is stored in a RAM to be saved into a tape recorder through an interface. Of a plurality of music numbers saved in the tape recorder a selected one is...
4614983 Automatic music playing apparatus  
In an automatic music playing apparatus, musical data entered at a keyboard are temporarily stored in a RAM and are sequentially recorded on a magnetic tape. The RAM has a memory capacity larger...
4594931 Electronic musical instrument for reading out and performing musical tone data previously stored  
An electronic musical instrument for reading out and performing musical tone data previously stored in a memory is disclosed. In the musical instrument, pitch data of a musical piece or pieces are...
4594930 Apparatus for synchronizing playback rates of music sources  
Apparatus for synchronizing playback rates of a plurality of music sources includes a reference generator generating a reference signal including beats, a music source producing a music signal...
4566362 Synchronizing signal generator  
A synchronizing signal generator generates synchronizing signals in synchronism with the performance of a musical piece even from an intermediate point of the musical piece. More specifically, upon...
4546687 Musical performance unit  
A musical performance or accompaniment unit which is so arranged that, with employment of a so-called sound multiplex system recording medium in which a vocal signal of a singer or the like is...
4363255 Piano action magnetic tape recording process and apparatus for player piano playback  
A process and apparatus are provided for recording electric signals corresponding to piano key operation and for reproducing the piano key operation. The process includes switching a discrete...
4351221 Player piano recording system  
A player piano recording system has photosensor flags secured to the undersides of the piano keys, vertical movement of which is detected by horizontally adjustable photosensors to produce "key...
4339980 Loop tape recorder  
A series of beat signals (e.g. sixteen) corresponding to a desired rhythm or tempo are recorded on one track of a multi-track magnetic tape, which is then cut and spliced into a loop just long...
4215619 System for recording and automatic playback of a musical performance  
A musical keyboard instrument is disclosed for recording and storing a musical performance and then automatically playing back the performance. As is conventional, a keyboard having a plurality of...
4182214 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument, in the nature of an organ, employs a plurality of endless magnetic tape cartridges, each continuously playing an endless magnetic tape stored therein, each endless...
4177708 Combined computer and recorder for musical sound reproduction  
A multichannel recording medium storer which samples the time course of notes produced by an instrument and an address for each of these samples. An interchangeable keyboard transmits a signal or...
4174652 Method and apparatus for recording digital signals for actuating solenoid  
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for recording digital signals subsequent re-creation of a musical performance from the keyboard of an electronic player piano, wherein the notes are given...
4161901 Dynamically adaptive player piano roll to magnetic tape formating system and playback  
There is disclosed an electronically adaptive player piano roll to magnetic tape formatting system which adapts itself to play the expression music generated from different sources. A plurality of...
4159491 Quadrabell carillon instrument  
A bell instrument for providing a true sound of cast bells, comprising a plurality of bell record modules, each such module being programmable by both automatic means and manual means and having a...
4147083 Programmable voice characteristic memory system  
A programmable voice characteristic memory system for programming any number of different specifications in an electronic digital organ. Digital information which defines voice characteristics in...
4132141 Solenoid-hammer control system for the re-creation of expression effects from a recorded musical presentation  
There is disclosed an expression system for playback of a magnetic tape record rendition of a musical presentation. The detected intensity level for the bass and treble halves of the keyboard are...
4022097 Computer-aided musical apparatus and method  
This disclosure is concerned with simplifying the performance of musical compositions and the like by triggering the release of successive electronically stored coded data corresponding to the...
4020729 Musical instrument with prerecorded tones on tape  
A musical instrument includes a multiplicity of circular endless magnetizable tapes with a plurality of different tracks, a multiplicity of pick-up heads for each of the tracks and a multiplicity...
4018127 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument, in the nature of an organ, employs a plurality of endless magnetic tape players, each continuously playing an endless magnetic tape stored therein, each endless...
3913443 Musical recording and method and apparatus therefor  
Different chordal tones are recorded on the tracks of a tape at the same tempo and rhythm for producing background music on a tape player during the playing of a melody on a musical instrument....
3905267 Electronic player piano with record and playback feature  
An electronic data storage system including a magnetic type recorder/replayer for recording spontaneous musical presentations for replay through a similar instrument. Key depression signals are...
3895554 Tape activated keyboard-type instruments  
A system for recording piano or organ notes on a recording tape and replaying the tape to actuate a reproduction of the music on a playback piano or organ, and when an organ is being played, means...
3872766 Synchronizing-pulse generating device for an apparatus for controlling the automatic musical performance of a keyed instrument  
In an apparatus for automatically controlling the playing of an organ from recorded keyboard control and synchronizing signals, a synchronizing-pulse generating circuit corrects the phase of the...
3868882 AUTOMATIC MUSICAL PERFORMANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A KEYED INSTRUMENT  
As the key elements and other elements of an electronic organ are manually played to perform a musical composition, an electronic circuit generates groups of parallel digital signals which...
3829597 KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT PLAYER SYSTEM WITH TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES AND SYNCHRONIZED RHYTHM DEVICE  
A player type electrically operated musical instrument includes a rhythm device for producing timed repetitive rhythm patterns of unpitched or semi-pitched percussive sounds. Information as to the...
3789719 TAPE ACTIVATED PIANO AND ORGAN PLAYER  
A system for recording piano or organ music on a recording tape and replaying the tape to actuate a reproduction of the music on a playback piano or organ, the system including electrical means to...
3781452 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING RECORDINGS OF MUSICAL SCORES  
A complete musical score is recorded from stored pitches and notes by first recording basic timing signals for the entire score on a first track of a multi-channel tape, and then recording...
3746772 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH BUILT-IN TAPE RECORDER  
A multichannel tape recorder and variously selectable switches on its recording and reproducing sides are connectable between each of keyboard circuits and the audio amplifier of an electronic...
3700783 VIBRATO EFFECT PRODUCING APPARATUS USING A PLURALITY OF REPRODUCING HEADS WHICH ARE INDIVIDUALLY RECIPROCALLY DISPLACED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER  
A vibrato effect producing apparatus using at least one recording head and a plurality of reproducing heads and at least a magnetic tape having at least one recording track and a tape drive means....
3683096 ELECTRONIC PLAYER SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICALLY OPERATED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
The invention relates to a player mechanism for electrical musical instruments. Information representing the manipulation of the playing keys and controls of a musical instrument, such as an organ,...
3647929 APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING MUSICAL NOTES FROM AN ENCODED RECORD  
Apparatus for reproducing music, either by playing or by printing a musical score. The music is recorded on a record medium, such as magnetic tape, which has at least one and no more than eight...
3567840 TAPE DRIVE MECHANISM FOR ELECTRICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS  
A record tape drive mechanism for electrical musical instruments in which the tape is movable in opposite directions over a sound pickup, the tape having one end anchored on one side of the pickup,...
3562398 PLAYER PIANO SIMULATOR WITH BUILT-IN TAPE RECORDER  
A model player piano is disclosed that simulates certain operations of a player piano while reproducing, through tape recording means, the musical sounds of an authentic piano.
3562397 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH BUILT-IN TAPE RECORDER  
A tape recorder is variously connectable by switching to one or more parts of the electrical circuitry of an electronic musical instrument, the switching being readily controllable by the...
3546354 AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION OF PITCHES IN ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH MAGNETIC RECORDING-REPRODUCING APPARATUS  
3539697 MAGNETIC RECORDING OF MUSICAL TONES EMPLOYING A MAGNETIC PATTERN DIE  
3493666 FREQUENCY-STABILIZED POWER SOURCE FOR A.C. DRIVEN MOTORS COMPRISING SIGNALS FROM A SELECTED TONE GENERATOR AMPLIFIED TO REQUIRED POWER-VOLTAGE LEVEL  
3467758 MULTIPLE SPEAKER SOUND OUTPUT SYSTEM FOR REDUCING INTERMODULATION DISTORTION  
3458642 ELECTRONIC ORGAN UTILIZING PROPORTIONAL FREQUENCY CHANGES FOR HARMONIC STRUCTURE  
3422718 APPARATUS FOR COMBINATION ACTION IN AN ORGAN  
3272907 Electrical musical instrument having pre-recorded tape for tone generation  
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