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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365260 | Apparatus and method for reproducing voice in synchronism with music piece Music piece sequence data are composed of a plurality of event data which include performance event data and user event data designed for linking a voice to progression of a music piece. A plurality of voice data files are stored in a memory separately from the musi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7351905 | Apparatus for powering an electronic musical instrument Apparatus for providing electrical power to signal conditioner circuitry inside a musical instrument having a signal output jack mounted thereon to carry a conditioned music signal via a signal cable to a remote location. The power source is a battery mounted inside... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7081583 | Digitally controllable oscillator A digitally controllable oscillator includes an oscillation generation means and an oscillator control, wherein the oscillator control comprises two digital/analog converters whose output signals are combined by a combiner in order to generate an analog input signal... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6956160 | Tone generator apparatus sharing parameters among channels A music apparatus utilizes a tone generator including a plurality of tone generating elements to generate a plurality of music tones arranged in a set of performance parts of a music piece based on sequence data. An assigning section assigns the plurality of tone ge... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6640257 | System and method for audio control The present invention comprises a system that provides a convenient and easy-to-use means for controlling audio input and output for recording. The system includes a first input adapted to receive a high fidelity microphone such as a low impedance microph... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6157976 | PCI-PCI bridge and PCI-bus audio accelerator integrated circuit A semiconductor device with an embedded PCI 2.1 compliant bridge provides expanded functionality as system-level implementations of a PCI-to-PCI bridge, and enhances the level of integration possible. The embedded PCI-to-PCI bridge allows the creation of ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5756915 | Electronic musical instrument having a search function and a replace function A music performance information searching apparatus and a music performance information replacing apparatus. The music performance information searching apparatus includes a ROM or RAM for storing music performance data, a control panel or a keyboard for ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5721476 | Control circuit for lamps with a melody output A circuit arrangement for lamps with melody output includes a switch having a common end connected to an AC voltage source and three contact ends, two rectifiers each respectively connected to a contact end of the switch via a connector, a melody circuit ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5581045 | Method and integrated circuit for the flexible combination of four operators in sound synthesis A four-operator sound synthesis integrated circuit comprises a first through a fourth sound synthesis operator, a first programmable multiplier connecting the output of the first operator to the input of the second operator, a second programmable multipli... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5578779 | Method and integrated circuit for electronic waveform generation of voiced audio tones A tone generator clears all registers in a twenty-nine stage device so that the previous results are not used in the calculations for a next tone sample. A series approximation of a desired complex sound waveform is achieved by calculating the contributio... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5245128 | Controller for a musical effects unit A controller for a musical effects unit enables control of an effects unit through the use of two touch buttons mounted on a guitar, or other instrument. The two touch switches form an input to a microprocessor utilizing control software to interpret the ... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5200565 | Musical tone synthesizing apparatus having improved processing operation A musical tone synthesizing apparatus, which has a musical tone memory, generates a musical tone by accessing the musical tone memory. In ordinary state, the tone generator directly accesses the memory and generates musical tones based upon the accessed d... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5060179 | Mathematical function-generating device for electronic musical instruments A mathematical function-generating device for producing, in an electronic musical instrument, functional values from an accumulation of first digital data. A digital data-generating circuit generates first digital data. A digital value string-generating c... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4957032 | Apparatus for realizing variable key scaling in electronic musical instrument The key scaling apparatus for an electronic musical instrument having a keyboard includes a memory unit having plural memory areas associated respectively with plural notes or note groups represented by plural keys or key groups of the keyboard; manipulat... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4936185 | Electronic musical instrument having plural component blocks An electronic musical instrument comprises a plural number of component blocks capable of being coupled mechanically and electrically in succession and each having therein musical tone elements control means and at least one of the blocks having also musi... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4711148 | Fractional range selectable musical tone generating apparatus A musical tone generating apparatus of an adapter type to be connected to a host electronic keyboard musical instrument via an information cable for generating musical tone signals in accordance with key information supplied from the host musical instrume... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4700604 | Music playing system A master electronic musical instrument and a slave electronic musical instrument are interconnected through a cable and music playing data is transferred from the master electronic musical instrument to the slave electronic musical instrument. The slave e... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4662261 | Electronic musical instrument with autoplay function When key-off information is given after the start of an operation of generating a predetermined tone according to key-on information, a predetermined period of time is counted from the instant the key-off information is provided and, after the lapse of th... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4644840 | Electronic keyboard musical instrument and a method of operating the same An electronic keyboard musical instrument is operated by a main system computer in a manner dependent on the settings of input elements. A plurality of tone modules are used, each of which comprises a subsystem computer including a subsystem bus, a memory... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4630520 | Guitar controller for a music synthesizer A guitar controller for an electronic music synthesizer utilizes a multiplexed string energization and fret acquisition system wherein a high impedance buffer allows voltages to be detected off the strings at the various frets without drawing current thro... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4570521 | Electronic musical instrument with string-simulating switches An electronic musical instrument includes a fingerboard having a plurality of switches which are player-actuated to produce musical tones through electronic tone-generating means. The fingerboard, which is on an elongate neck, has, underneath its exterior... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4526078 | Interactive music composition and performance system An interactive music composition and performance system is a real-time composing and sound-producing system which employs a synthesizer, a programmable computer, and at least one performance device and which functions automatically to generate controls wh... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4479411 | Tone signal generating apparatus of electronic musical instruments Code data representing a plurality of note frequencies are stored in a first ROM and are selectively read out according to key operation of a keyboard. With the operation of a key, predetermined control data is also obtained, and this control data is cumu... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4475430 | Differential sampling circuit for improving signal to noise ratio in an electronic organ having multiplexed keying The present invention is a differential sampling circuit for improving the signal to noise ratio by eliminating d.c. level distortion in square wave signals used as components for forming a stairstep or bright wave signal in an electronic organ having mul... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4468997 | Fretboard to synthesizer interface apparatus Apparatus for detecting note selection on a guitar fretboard including a differential amplifier for detecting voltage drops across successive fret pairs, a multiplexer for connecting successive fret pairs to the differential amplifier, counters for mainta... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4437377 | Digital electronic musical instrument A digital musical tone signal is generated in a first LSI selected by a chip select signal transferred from a CPU in accordance with a control signal transferred through a control bus from the CPU. Amplitude data and envelope data are transferred from a s... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4412470 | System for communicating data among microcomputers in an electronic musical instrument The present invention provides a system for communicating data among microprocessors which are utilized to control an electronic musical instrument. A master microprocessor transmits a synchronizing signal comprising two, spaced pulses to the other microp... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4409876 | Electronic musical instrument forming tone waveforms A frequency number corresponding to the frequency of a tone intended to be sounded is accumulated in an accumulator at every calculation timing of a constant interval to produce values progressing at a rate corresponding to the tone frequency. At this rat... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4386550 | Optically coupled decorative light controller A digital rectangular wave musical tone generator (10) activates a speaker (12) to produce sounds of aural quality similar to musical instruments, while varying the intensity of light output from a light-emitting diode (13). The intensity variations of th... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4384504 | Method of and apparatus for phase synchronization of digitally synthesized signals The phase of digitally synthesized audio frequency signals of the same frequency is synchronized prior to conversion of the signals into analog form. The phase synchronization is accomplished, in a musical instrument of the keyboard type, by comparison of... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4345500 | High resolution musical note oscillator and instrument that includes the note oscillator A musical note oscillator producing notes at musical intervals having high resolution and high frequency stability achieved with an economy of components and control signals. The oscillator may be operated to provide multiple notes simultaneously and inde... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4336734 | Digital high speed guitar synthesizer A musical instrument is structured as a guitar and incorporates electronic circuitry to synthesize musical tones. The instrument is played in the fashion of a guitar with tones generated in response to switches activated through strumming action. The pitc... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4333159 | Combination shift register, counter and memory device A combination of one or more shift registers with a binary counter and a memory device is disclosed wherein binary information inputs are supplied to the shift register through a plurality of AND gates which also receive inputs from a pulse generator and ... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4279185 | Electronic music sampling techniques The disclosure describes improved apparatus for sampling a digitally-stored waveshape only at a rate 2N times the fundamental frequency of a note synthesized, where N is an integer. The apparatus includes a digital memory for storing a digital ... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4269101 | Apparatus for generating the complement of a floating point binary number A complementer for floating point binary numbers utilizes two digital logic decision rules selected by the value of the power of the input number. The first decision rule is selected for an input power of -1 and constructs a power and mantissa determined ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4250788 | Register arrangement for electronic musical instruments A register arrangement for electronic organs wherein the programs which are stored in data storages of distributor circuits on one insertable card can be transferred into the storages of distributor circuits on another insertable card. The one card can be... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4246822 | Data transfer apparatus for digital polyphonic tone synthesizer In a musical instrument having one or more tone generators in which a plurality of data words corresponding to the amplitudes of a corresponding number of evenly spaced reference points defining the waveform of one cycle of an audio signal are transferred... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4217802 | Polyphonic digital synthesizer A polyphonic digital synthesizer which will generate a plurality of periodic signals in real time with independent control of amplitudes. A set of digital memories are at least equal in number to the periodic signals to be produced, the address of each me... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4207792 | Tri-state encoding circuit for electronic musical instrument A tri-state encoding circuit for use with an electronic musical instrument encodes one of three possible states of a device such as a switch, utilizing only a single input line from that device. The tri-state encoding circuit includes, in the case of a si... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4196651 | Non-redundant generator unlocking An electronic organ or the like is provided with a plurality of frequency generators greatly less than the number of keys on the organ. Each generator is capable of producing an electrical oscillation of proper frequency for any musical note on the organ ... | 04/08/1980 |
