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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 performance data representing pitches and durations of note... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4350071 | Automatic accompaniment circuit An automatic accompaniment circuit which is provided with a code detector for scanning key switches to detect the code of a depressed one of the key switches, a latch circuit for latching the output signal of the code detector by a bar clock pulse which i... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4305319 | Modular drum generator The present invention is an improved modular drum generator which plays a recorded drum beat and which may be used in combination with a plurality of identical, improved modular drum generators to provide an electronic percussion section. The improved mod... | 12/15/1981 |
| 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 selecting a rhythm pattern and a break pattern, scanning circ... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4297934 | Display device for automatic rhythm performance apparatus A display device for an automatic rhythm performance apparatus comprises a common display unit which selectively displays tempo and rhythm advancement of the automatic rhythm performance. For this purpose, the device has a selector for selecting the displ... | 11/03/1981 |
| 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. This instrument employs a memory for storing a plurality of ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 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, such as push buttons, for selecting prestored repetitive ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 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 multiplexing drive outputs and also having a read only memo... | 08/26/1980 |
| 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 rhythm storing random access memory having addresses corr... | 08/19/1980 |
| 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 sequence, a rhythm pattern of a shortest rhythm pattern u... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4191083 | Method and apparatus for memorizing an accompaniment passage A method and apparatus for memorizing and playing back an accompaniment passage in an electronic organ wherein the keyboard is multiplexed to develop a serial input data stream having keydown signals in the time slots corresponding to the depressed keys, ... | 03/04/1980 |
| 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 counts comprising binary words having a most significant bit ... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4154132 | Rhythm pattern variation device A rhythm pattern variation device which has an address counter for generating a memory read-out address signal in accordance with a rhythm clock, a memory for outputting a prestored rhythm pattern in accordance with the address signal, means for selective... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4144788 | Bass note generation system The bass note generation system provides one of several different types or styles of bass-line accompaniment for the organist. A chord pattern detector receives signals on keying lines corresponding to keys depressed by the instrument player and attempts ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4142433 | Automatic bass chord system In order to simplify the intricate wiring in known automatic bass chord systems and to reduce the number of separate decoders used therein for all chords of each key, an apparatus is provided which allows the use of only one decoder per chord type. When a... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4072078 | System for automatically producing tone patterns A tone pattern generating system for use with an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, responds to depression of a pedalboard key and a preselected rhythm and chordal pattern in an ROM memory to produce a "walking bass" automatically... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4062263 | Automatic rhythm performing apparatus A control circuit for controlling an automatic rhythm generating circuit of an automatic rhythm performance apparatus comprises a memory for controlling the rhythm start or stop operation of the automatic rhythm generating circuit by an output state, a rh... | 12/13/1977 |
| 3958483 | Musical instrument rhythm programmer having provision for automatic pattern variation An automatic rhythm programmer for an electrical musical instrument which provides electrical pulses for actuating musical voice generators according to predetermined rhythmic patterns, having provision for introducing any one of several predetermined var... | 05/25/1976 |
