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| 5357046 | Automatic performance apparatus and method According to the invention, elapsed time data indicative of a lapse of time are converted to greater values for permitting automatic performance according to the converted time data. Thus, it is made necessary, during fast forward of an automatic performa... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5296643 | Automatic musical key adjustment system for karaoke equipment A system and method for control of so-called KARAOKE equipment whereby the musical key of the pre-recorded accompaniment music may be altered automatically to substantially coincide with the analyzed or given vocal range of the singer, for example, sopran... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5286912 | Electronic musical instrument with playback of background tones and generation of key-on phrase tones An electronic musical instrument with playback of background tones and generation of key-on phrase tones, in which a simple adlib play can be performed while a user is singing using a microphone or as an interlude without requiring high-grade techniques i... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5278348 | Musical-factor data and processing a chord for use in an electronical musical instrument A device for use in an electronic musical instrument, in which data representing musical factors such as a tempo, a pitch and a timbre are changed at each repetition of an automatic performance, to thereby automatically effect variable automatic performan... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5274192 | Instrument for recording and playing back musical playing data An instrument for recording and playing musical playing data comprises a pattern memory, a timing designation key for designating playing back timing of the pattern data, a sequence track for recording sequence data, and a writing device for writing the p... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5247126 | Image reproducing apparatus, image information recording medium, and musical accompaniment playing apparatus In an image reproducing apparatus, a music information reproducing unit reproduces musical information, lyrics information or still picture information from a music information recording medium on which the musical information, the lyrics information or t... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5243123 | Music reproducing device capable of reproducing instrumental sound and vocal sound A music entertaining device which reproduces music instrumental sound and back chorus so that an entertainer can sing a song to the accompaniment of the reproduced music instrumental sound and the back chorus. The music instrumental data and back chorus d... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5241128 | Automatic accompaniment playing device for use in an electronic musical instrument Respecting plural accompaniment patterns belonging to a common accompaniment style, an order is predetermined in which accompaniment patterns are sequentially changed. For example, this order may be predetermined to be an order in which a change of the ac... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5239124 | Iteration control system for an automatic playing apparatus An automatic playing device including a memory which stores sequence data consisting of musical sound data and sequence data to control read-out of the musical sound data. A processing unit repeatedly reads out musical sound data specified by the control ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5225618 | Method and apparatus for studying music A method and apparatus for studying music includes a music analysis system, which in conjunction with a proprietary storage medium, enables the user to comparatively analyze a recorded musical performance alone or in synchronization with a modifiable synt... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5208416 | Automatic performance device In a case where a fill-in pattern is temporarily inserted during an automatic performance, not only a main pattern to which the performance pattern should be shifted but also a main pattern which has been performed immediately before are taken into accoun... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5194682 | Musical accompaniment playing apparatus In a musical accompaniment playing apparatus, a reproducing unit reproduces control information from a recording medium on which control information is recorded according to a MIDI standard, a sound source unit generates musical accompaniment information ... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5182414 | Motif playing apparatus A motif playing apparatus comprises a ROM for storing fixed ad-lib motif data, a RAM for reading out the fixed ad-lib motif data from the ROM and temporarily storing the read ad-lib motif data, a CPU for rewriting the fixed ad-lib motif data stored in the... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5177312 | Electronic musical instrument having automatic ornamental effect An electronic musical instrument generates musical tones corresponding to a melody tone and a chord tone which are designated by a performer. In order to apply a specific musical effect or generate an ornament, a front percussive tone, or forefall, is aut... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5164531 | Automatic accompaniment device Plural normal pattern data, plural introduction pattern data, plural fill-in pattern data and plural ending pattern data for each of various accompaniment styles such as march, waltz and rock are stored in a memory. Relation of correspondence among these ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5157215 | Electronic musical instrument for modulating musical tone signal with voice An electrical musical instrument includes a scale designator for sequentially and automatically designating a scale on the basis of prestored data of a music piece, and a musical tone signal generator for outputting a musical tone signal including a harmo... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5138926 | Level control system for automatic accompaniment playback An electronic musical instrument includes an emphasis circuit for independently modifying the level of each musically encoded data channel of a selected automatic accompaniment pattern in response to a parameter characterizing key operation, such as key v... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5113744 | Automatic performance apparatus having plural memory areas An automatic performance apparatus provides a performance data memory including plural storing areas each capable of storing different performance data independently. The performance data can be selectively written in and read from each storing area. Base... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5070758 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic music performance system An electronic musical instrument includes a first tone generator for generating a musical tone in response to each depression of key on an accompaniment keyboard and a second tone generator for generating a musical tone in accordance with the musical perf... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4993307 | Electronic musical instrument with a coupler effect function A present electronic musical instrument is applied to an electronic wind instrument and an electronic keyboard instrument. At least one piece of pitch difference data representing an arbitrary pitch difference with respect to a first pitch that is to be d... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4993306 | Device for correcting timing of music playing information for use in music auto play device A device for correcting a timing of music playing information including a determining unit and a correcting unit, the correcting unit corrects the timing of the change of the performance of a piece of music, which is outside the range of short time data, ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4977812 | Accompaniment line principal tone determination system A system for automatically determining principal tones of an accompaniment line supporting a melodic line comprises a plurality of principal tone inference engines which after principal tones in accordance with different rules of inference from one anothe... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4939974 | Automatic accompaniment apparatus An automatic accompaniment apparatus performs an automatic accompaniment having much variety with less storing amount of information (e.g., rhythm pattern data or pattern data). Based on the stored information, generation of tone or chord is controlled. I... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4896576 | Accompaniment line principal tone determination system A system for automatically determining principal tones of an accompaniment line supporting a melodic line comprises a plurality of principal tone inference engines which infer principal tones in accordance with different rules of inference from one anothe... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4862784 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument providing a key area dividing unit and a tone area changing unit divides the whole key area of a keyboard into melody key area and accompaniment key area when a diving mode is designated by a player. A tone area of tone pi... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4813327 | Musical tone control signal generating apparatus for electronic musical instrument According to this invention, a musical tone control signal generating apparatus for an electronic musical instrument is provided. When a performer operates an automatic return type musical tone control operation element, the apparatus controls a generated... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4785703 | Polytonal automatic accompaniment apparatus An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes an accompaniment pattern generation unit for generating a plurality of accompaniment patterns which represent timing of generation of a plurality of accompaniment tones to be generated respectively. The accomp... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4748885 | Electronic musical instrument with automatic rhythm generating device An electronic musical instrument has a musical tone signal forming circuit, an automatic rhythm generator rhythm selection switches, and a registration memory. The switches are used to select one of a plurality of rhythms. The automatic rhythm generator a... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4166405 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is of a type wherein musical tone waveforms are stored in a memory as their sampled amplitudes and sequentially and repetitively read out to constitute tone waveforms. A key depression brings forth key code in a digital re... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4120226 | Circuit for reiterating percussive sounds in electronic musical instrument For reiteration of percussive sounds in an electronic organ there is provided a circuit for generating pulse signals for reiteration control which are "on" for much longer periods than they are "off", thereby substantially reducing the chance of an organ ... | 10/17/1978 |
| 3954038 | Electrical musical instrument with automatic sequential tone generation An electronic organ includes digital circuitry for automatically enabling in a sequential manner a plurality of gates to pass tone signals to a corresponding plurality of keyers. The sequential enabling is separately controllable by an arpeggio circuit, a... | 05/04/1976 |
