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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5478967 | Automatic performing system for repeating and performing an accompaniment pattern In an automatic performing system, when the track is changed to one having a different loop bar number, the bar to be reproduced next is easily determined by first dividing the number of bars accumulated from the start of accompaniment by the loop bar num... | 12/26/1995 |
| 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 second condition of music composition. A melody rhythm co... | 09/19/1995 |
| 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 information from the first register and setting the tempo of the au... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5403966 | Electronic musical instrument with tone generation control This electronic musical instrument, having several sound sources, can generate one tone several times according to tone generation one operation, and generate chord. It can control the tone generation level and tone generation timing based on the instruct... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5350882 | Automatic performance apparatus with operated rotation means for tempo control An automatic performance apparatus which easily changes the tempo and direction of automatic performance of a musical instrument, for example, to a rhythm of a rap music such that a disc jockey operates a scratch disc. Clock frequency SQCK of sequence cou... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5300728 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the tempo of auto-accompaniment tones at the end/beginning of a bar for an electronic musical instrument This invention discloses an electronic musical instrument incorporating an auto-accompaniment apparatus, which can desirably set a tempo of rhythm accompaniment tones (e.g., chord, bass, and drum accompaniment tones) using a tempo preset button or an incr... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5286909 | Key-to-be-depressed designating and comparing apparatus using a visual display A key-to-be-depressed designating apparatus, employed in a keyboard-type electronic musical instrument, is suitable particularly for novice keyboard-instrument players, and this apparatus is designed to automatically and sequentially designate the keys to... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5281754 | Melody composer and arranger A method and system for automatically generating an entire musical arrangement including melody and accompaniment on a computer. The invention combines predetermined, short musical phrases modified by selection of random parameters to produce a data strea... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5266736 | Interruption control apparatus for use in performance information processing system An interruption control apparatus for controlling interruptions of a performance information processor for processing performance information of a piece of music. The interruption control apparatus includes a first time control unit for regulating the len... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5256832 | Beat detector and synchronization control device using the beat position detected thereby A reference start point RPS and a reference end point RPE for detecting a beat position BPn are set as a BPn-1 +BT&#b1;DR on the basis of a beat interval BT obtained by user's guide tapping for a predetermined time, a predetermined d... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5221801 | Automatic accompaniment musical apparatus having programmable gradual tempo variation device An automatic accompaniment playing device comprising a memory for storing various normal rhythm patterns, switching devices for selecting any one of said normal rhythm patterns from said memory to play the same at a predetermined tempo, a settable control... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5200566 | Electronic musical instrument with ad-lib melody playing device An electronic musical instrument is provided with an ad-lib melody data storage device for storing ad-lib melody data and an ad-lib switch so that, when the ad-lib switch is turned on, it will read the ad-lib melody data to automatically play an ad-lib me... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5179239 | Sound generating device for outputting sound signals having a sound waveform and an envelope waveform A sound generating device for generating a variety of sounds has a main control circuit which includes a ROM for storing melody data. A sound source is coupled to the control circuit in accordance with sound scale data stored in the ROM. The sound source ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5164529 | Interruption control apparatus for use in performance information processing system An interruption control apparatus for controlling interruptions of a performance information processor for processing performance information of a piece of music. The interruption control apparatus includes a first time control unit for regulating the len... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5107745 | Electronic musical instrument capable of reporting operating conditions including sound level and tempo An electronic musical instrument capable of reporting a sound level and a tempo to be set. When a particular sound level or a particular tempo is selected and set, a click having a particular pitch matching the sound level or the tempo is generated to all... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5040447 | Electronic stringed instrument with fingering operating data memory system and navigate display device In an electronic stringed instrument, when a fingered string is plucked, the initiation of vibration of the plucked string is detected by a string vibration sensor to generate timing data representing the vibration initiation timing and number data repres... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5009145 | Automatic performance apparatus having automatic synchronizing function An automatic performance apparatus provides a memory capable of storing plural parts of a desirable tune, wherein each part can be independently recorded or reproduced, regardless of recording or reproduction of another part. While performance information... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4969384 | Musical score duration modification apparatus An automatic performance apparatus that can change the performance speed of desired sections in a piece of music automatically performed. The apparatus comprises a section designator for designating a specific section in the piece, a time evaluator for co... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4936184 | Music generator A music generator having a memory unit to store time and tone data of the selected song, which are read out successively from the memory unit in response to address signals applied to the memory unit by an address counter. The time data are sent to a latc... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4919030 | Visual indicator of temporal accuracy of compared percussive transient signals A visual indicator of temporal accuracy of compared percussive transient signals having a receiver for a reference input signal, a receiver for a performance or test input signal. An electronic circuit determines whether the first signal received is recei... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4887503 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus for electronic musical instrument An automatic accompaniment apparatus for an electronic musical instrument is provided with an instrumentation selecting switch for selecting a desired instrumentation, a data generator for generating instrumentation data selected by the selecting switch w... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4876936 | Electronic tone generator for generating a main melody, a first accompaniment, and a second accompaniment An electronic tone generator generates a synthesized three tones signal of a main melody tone, a first accompaniment tone, and a second accompaniment tone. The electronic tone generator includes a main melody generation circuit, a first accompaniment circ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4876937 | Apparatus for producing rhythmically aligned tones from stored wave data An automatic tone producing apparatus produces tones at a rhythmic alignment by reading a memory which stores a train of tones of various instruments aligned in sequence to be respectively sounded at different time points to constitute a predetermined len... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4839810 | Automatic rhythm performance apparatus having ending performance function An automatic rhythm performance apparatus comprises at least a rhythm pattern memory for pre-storing plural kinds of rhythm patterns, an ending switch and a rhythm tone source. The rhythm patterns correspond to rhythm performances such as the Latin Americ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4704933 | Apparatus for and method of producing automatic music accompaniment from stored accompaniment segments in an electronic musical instrument The accompaniment apparatus for an electronic musical instrument comprises an accompaniment segment memory storing data representing a plurality of accompaniment segments which form a plurality of mutually different accompaniment patterns of predetermined... | 11/10/1987 |
| 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 sequencer having sound information programmed therein and a... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4630518 | Electronic musical instrument Melody data stored in a memory is sequentially read out and sounded with the operation of a one-key switch. In the memory is also stored accompaniment data, which is automatically played under the control of a microprocessor. The timing of the operation o... | 12/23/1986 |
| 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 representative of music, a discriminating circuit operative in... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4484507 | Automatic performance device with tempo follow-up function An automatic performance device is of a type in which the automatic performance is executed in accordance with musical data read out successively. It comprises a fast feed stop control circuit for advancing the progress of the automatic performance when a... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4474098 | Signal emitting device with adjustable beat frequency On a first keyboard (4) the time value of each musical note and/or the time value of each pause of the musical sequence to be reproduced is introduced. After the introduction of each note value, the respective pitch value of this note can be introduced wi... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4454796 | Programmable musical instrument A musical instrument comprises an input circuit for entering pitch information and duration information of a note, a counting circuit for counting the time when the input means continues to be actuated in order to fix the duration information, a memory ci... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4432266 | Automatic musical performance device capable of controlling the tempo An automatic musical performance device follows in tempo a manual performance and is controllable to change the tempo of automatic performance independently of the tempo of manual performance. The automatic musical performance device comprises means for g... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4417494 | Automatic performing apparatus of electronic musical instrument An automatic performing apparatus of an electronic musical instrument comprises a memory for storing musical note data representing progression of a music to be played and control data for controlling such a generation mode of music tones being generated ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4402244 | Automatic performance device with tempo follow-up function An automatic performance device is of a type in which the automatic performance is executed in accordance with musical data read out successively. It comprises a fast feed stop control circuit for advancing the progress of the automatic performance when a... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4350070 | Electronic music book An electronic music book for simplifying the storage and retrieval of musical scores in which a control panel operates electronic memories to locate a song in the memory for a musician's reading thereof. Optional modules may be added to the memory to expa... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4345501 | Automatic performance tempo control device A tempo control device for automatic performance according to this invention is of a type wherein a tempo of automatic performance is caused to automatically follow that of manual performance as the latter changes during performance. When difference in te... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4344344 | Electronic musical instrument having musical performance training system An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard, a tone signal forming circuit to produce musical tone signals corresponding to keys being depressed on the keyboard, a memory to store musical performance data, a keyboard display device to visually i... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4319509 | Sequence generator for an electronic musical instrument A sequence generator system is disclosed for use in an electronic musical instrument wherein scanning circuits scan the instrument and produce a serial data stream corresponding to notes played on the instrument. The sequence generator system comprises se... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4216693 | Means for storing bass rhythm patterns In accordance with the present invention, twelve different partials for a bass rhythm pattern are stored in only four columns of a ROM (Read Only Memory). The first three columns comprise a straight binary encoding of six different partials including the ... | 08/12/1980 |
