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7612275 Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rhythm information from an audio signal  
An apparatus for providing a beat and tatum tracker includes an accent filter bank, a periodicity estimator, a period estimator and a phase estimator. The accent filter bank is configured to...
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...
7557280 Automatic player musical instrument producing short tones without missing tone and automatic playing system used therein  
An automatic player piano is a combination between an acoustic piano and an automatic playing system, and a grand piano and an upright piano are used as the acoustic piano; the grand piano has...
7534951 Beat extraction apparatus and method, music-synchronized image display apparatus and method, tempo value detection apparatus, rhythm tracking apparatus and method, and music-synchronized display apparatus and method  
A music-synchronized display apparatus includes a beat extractor configured to detect a portion in which a power spectrum in a spectrogram of an input music signal greatly changes and to output a...
7518053 Beat matching for portable audio  
Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat...
7390955 Metronome with wireless transducer  
A metronome for use by a musician or group of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing an electrical signal according to a desired timing scheme and one or more transducers in...
7304230 Multiple channel metronome  
A multiple channel metronome for use by a plurality of musicians generally includes a signal generator for producing electrical signals according to desired timing schemes and a plurality of...
7227072 System and method for determining the similarity of musical recordings  
A system and method for determining the similarity of music files based on a perceptual metric is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic...
7012183 Apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function  
An apparatus for analyzing an audio signal with regard to rhythm information of the audio signal by using an autocorrelation function comprises a filter bank for separating the audio signal into at...
6924426 Automatic expressive intonation tuning system  
A method for the algorithmic expressive intonation tuning (EIT) and performance of electronic, computer and MIDI musical works relies on melodic intervals, rather than on chordal harmony, and acts...
6747201 Method and system for extracting melodic patterns in a musical piece and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method  
A method and system for extracting melodic patterns by first recognizing musical “keywords” or themes. The invention searches for all instances of melodic (intervallic) repetition in a piece...
6561908 Gaming device with a metronome system for interfacing sound recordings  
The present invention involves a gaming device with a metronome system. The metronome system includes a CPU which reads game state data on ticks determined by a check-back rate. The CPU can cause...
6486390 Apparatus and method for creating melody data having forward-syncopated rhythm pattern  
A rhythm pattern is provided to be subjected to forward syncopation processing. The time position of an un-syncopated note in the rhythm pattern is shifted forward to render advanced beating of the...
6472591 Portable communication terminal apparatus with music composition capability  
In a portable communication terminal apparatus, a transmitter and receiver conducts either of a transmission and receipt of a message. A tone generator generates a sequence of tones to sound a...
6469240 Rhythm feature extractor  
The invention relates to a method of extracting a representation of its rhythmic structure, from a given signal. The representation is designed to yield a similarity relation between item titles....
6417437 Automatic musical composition method and apparatus  
In accordance with a rhythm of a main melody, a auxiliary-melody or counter-melody creating rhythm pattern is supplied which indicates timing of respective hit points of a plurality of tones in the...
6294720 Apparatus and method for creating melody and rhythm by extracting characteristic features from given motif  
From a given melody motif is extracted a rhythm pattern consisting of a series of rhythmic alignment of notes without a pitch representing the time positions of the notes constituting the melody....
6225547 Rhythm game apparatus, rhythm game method, computer-readable storage medium and instrumental device  
Sound generation control and instruction operation evaluation is performed by sound group selection and a sound generation instruction, with a mimic guitar having selection buttons for selecting...
6177623 Music reproducing system, rhythm analyzing method and storage medium  
In a music reproducing system, each of characters is allocated in advance a favorite rhythm component and a peculiar figure expressing ability. A sound pressure data producing section produces...
6080926 Automatic accompanying apparatus and automatic accompanying method capable of simply setting automatic accompaniment parameters  
In an automatic accompanying apparatus and an automatic accompanying method, the respective part structures of a plurality of basic variation patterns used as a basic accompanying pattern of rhythm...
6040517 Rhythmic tone generator  
A rhythmic tone generator includes a casing that houses a rhythm signal generating circuit, a battery and a tone generating device, and that is positioned and held on the concha by an attaching...
5942711 Roll-sound performance device and method  
A unique note length is allocated to each of a plurality of operating positions provided on a ribbon controller. In response to a position-selecting operation by a human operator, time data is...
5890116 Conduct-along system  
A conduct-along system that can give expressions to sounds and/or images, in which expressions are added to sounds and/or images following the playback of sounds and/or images in real-time based on...
5859379 Method of and apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases, and program storage medium readable by the apparatus for composing a melody  
An apparatus for composing a melody by switching musical phrases sequentially corresponding to key input signals, and playing the switched musical phrases smoothly. The apparatus selects musical...
5714705 Arpeggiator  
An arpeggiator scans key-pushing data and produces in sequence a plurality of playing data according to results of the scanning. The arpeggiator includes a rhythm pattern table having at least one...
5663517 Interactive system for compositional morphing of music in real-time  
A system suitable for effecting musical morphing in real time. The system comprises a computer comprising a programmable memory for storing a program. The program comprises the steps of selecting a...
5596160 Performance-information apparatus for analyzing pitch and key-on timing  
A performance-information analyzing apparatus, which is employed by an electronic musical instrument, is provided to analyze performance information which represents at least a pitch and a key-on...
5300726 Electronic rhythm instrument with tone pitch and tone volume control  
An electronic rhythm instrument having two or more rhythm switches which correspond to rhythmical sounds, and which generates rhythmical sounds corresponding to the rhythm switch operated. In the...
5247128 Electronic musical instrument with selectable rhythm pad effects  
An electronic musical instrument provides at least one pad to which a desirable musical tone such as a percussion instrument tone is assigned. When operating the pad, the corresponding musical tone...
5179240 Electronic musical instrument with a melody and rhythm generator  
An electronic musical instrument provides a keyboard providing plural keys, memories for storing necessary programs and data, a musical tone signal generating circuit providing plural channels and...
5099740 Automatic composer for forming rhythm patterns and entire musical pieces  
A automatic composer automatically forms a rhythm pattern. Reference rhythm patterns representing a sequence of a plurality of tone durations are generated, and a pulse scale source provides a...
4757736 Electronic musical instrument having rhythm-play function based on manual operation  
A plurality of pad operating means for manual operation are provided on a keyboard panel of an electronic keyboard musical instrument. When an operator operates the pad operating means using the...
4706538 Electronic musical instrument with automatic musical accompaniment playing system  
An electronic musical instrument automatically plays a musical accompaniment utilizing a minimized number of tone signal generating channels. The electronic musical instrument has a plurality of...
4685370 Automatic rhythm playing apparatus having plurality of rhythm patterns for a rhythm sound  
A plurality of different kinds of rhythm playing pattern data corresponding to each of the different rhythm sounds being used to play specified rhythms is stored in a rhythm pattern memory section...
4656911 Automatic rhythm generator for electronic musical instrument  
Every time a new chord signal is supplied to a chord memory circuit, a previous chord signal is supplied to a chord comparison and calculation circuit together with the new chord signal to obtain a...
4520707 Electronic organ having microprocessor controlled rhythmic note pattern generation  
A system for automatically generating an accompaniment note pattern and a bass pattern programmed therein by the player. The system includes a programmable microprocessor wherein two patterns, one...
4467690 Automatic rhythm performance device  
An automatic rhythm performance device is constructed of a rhythm pattern memory, an instrument memory and a rhythm tone generator. The rhythm pattern memory delivers a variety of rhythm patterns...
4464966 Rhythm data setting system for an electronic musical instrument  
Bar codes representing rhythm data corresponding to rhythm pattern, rhythm progression or a certain kind of rhythm are printed in relation to a musical score, and are read out by scanning with a...
4413543 Synchro start device for electronic musical instruments  
A series of musical tone codes for musical performances and synchro start codes are stored in a main memory. A series of musical tone codes for one-key play or an automatic play are stored in a...
4378720 Electronic musical instrument having musical performance training system  
An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard, tone signal forming circuit to produce musical tone signals corresponding to keys being depressed on the keyboard, a memory to store musical...
4299154 Electronic rhythm generator  
An electronic rhythm generator which comprises a large read only memory having a plurality of rhythm patterns and rhythm break patterns programmed therein, player operated selector switches for...
4282788 Electronic musical instrument with automatic chord performance device  
An electronic musical instrument with an automatic chord performance device is of a type in which chord tones of plural series of different tone colors in different rhythm patterns are produced....
4226155 Music synthesizer  
A music synthesizer is disclosed which includes a keyboard for entering musical notes to be synthesized into the music synthesizer. The music synthesizer also includes a rhythm control arrangement,...
4218949 Master control LSI chip  
In an electronic organ or the like constructed of a plurality of large scale integrated circuit (LSI) chips, the present disclosure relates to a master control LSI chip having a counter providing...
4217806 Automatic rhythm generating method and apparatus in electronic musical instrument  
A read only memory is provided, which has a plurality of storing regions allotted for a plurality of kinds of rhythm patterns, each region having a plurality of addresses for storing, in an address...
4217805 Apparatus and method for writing rhythm information in storage  
A reference rhythm storing read only memory having a plurality of addresses for storing in advance, in an address sequence, information concerning a reference rhythm pattern and a writable/readable...
4208938 Random rhythm pattern generator  
Random rhythm-pattern generators have been proposed that can select one of several rhythm-patterns (i.e. pulse trains with different repetition cycles) prepared beforehand, change their playing...
4186639 Rhythm generator for electronic organ  
An electronic rhythm generator particularly suited for incorporation in an electronic organ. A counter, clocked by time sequential rhythm clock pulses, produces a cyclically repeating series of...
4183277 Rhythm accent circuit  
In an electronic musical instrument of the type in which pitch selection is achieved by pulse position modulation, and a rhythm accompaniment is played automatically under the direction of a...
4163407 Programmable rhythm unit  
A programmable rhythm unit is disclosed for electrically simulating sounds of a plurality of rhythm instruments being played in selected ones of a plurality of different rhythmic patterns. A...
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