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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 bar code reader. The rhythm data thus read out are stored in... | 08/14/1984 |
| 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 submemory. In the course of playing music on the basis of sai... | 11/08/1983 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 order, and if necessary change the kind of instrumental music... | 06/24/1980 |
| 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 |
| 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 read-only memory, a shift register is used to create pulse posit... | 01/15/1980 |
| 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 variable frequency oscillator cooperates with a counter/divider ... | 08/07/1979 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
