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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314994 | Music processing printer An audio processing device receives, processes, and outputs music and audio files to a variety of electronic and paper-based formats. In one embodiment, the audio processing device generates a score based on a music or audio file, and/or can match the file to melodi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7253349 | Engineers piano with bisymmetrical manuals and accompanying musical notation system A 2 manual musical keyboard with the pitch progression on one of the manuals reversed. The keys on these manuals are segregated into 2 groups of 2 different heights in the same way as a standard musical keyboard. The key configurations on these manuals have 12 semi-... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7183478 | Dynamically moving note music generation method A dynamically moving method of triggering musical notes that produces intricate, interwoven note sequences with ease as an aid to musicians. Notes that used to stand still while being played can now effectively move. Note events are programmed to generate or trigger... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7105734 | Array of equipment for composing The invention relates to a novel array or piece of equipment (100) for providing assistance while composing musical compositions at least by means of acoustic reproduction during and/or after composing musical compositions or the like which are played on virt... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7038123 | Strumpad and string array processing for musical instruments A system for expanding generalizing aspects of an autoharp and making these functionalities beneficially available on other instruments. Strumpads comprising arrays of isolated touch switches, each generating distinct signals, are used to generate MIDI note events a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7005571 | MIDI controller pedalboard A MIDI controller pedalboard for composing and playing music such as pipe organ music is disclosed. The MIDI controller pedalboard provides pedals, and switches for the playing of notes and the manipulation of sound data in a MIDI format. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6958442 | Dynamic microtunable MIDI interface process and device A software solution to the pitch limitations inherent in the MIDI standard. The invention uses the Polyphonic Aftertouch (also known as “Key Aftertouch”) messages available in the basic MIDI standard to retune selected notes, according to the following process: ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6417438 | Apparatus for and method of providing a performance guide display to assist in a manual performance of an electronic musical apparatus in a selected musical key In addition to a general transposition setting device for setting a transposition for an entire musical instrument, there is provide an automatic-performance transposition setting device for optionally setting a transposition value for automatic performan... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6166316 | Automatic performance apparatus with variable arpeggio pattern An automatic performance apparatus that is responsive to a manual player of an input implement for producing either an arpeggio performance or a pattern performance in a modified form. Specifically, the present invention includes: a sequencer block that i... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6156965 | Fixed-location method of composing and performing and a musical instrument A method and apparatus for composing and performing music on an electronic instrument in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while simultaneously making the individual notes of the chord, and/or possible scale and non-... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6156966 | Fixed-location method of composing and performing and a musical instrument A method and apparatus for composing and performing music on an electronic instrument in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while simultaneously generating the individual notes of the chord, and/or possible scale and ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6121532 | Method and apparatus for creating a melodic repeated effect An initial note series is collected from a real-time source of musical input material such as a keyboard or a sequencer playing back musical data, or extracted from musical data stored in memory. The initial note series may be altered to create variations... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6069309 | Data compression of sound data A data compression method and apparatus for the compression of sound data utilized in digital sampling keyboard instructs. The present invention reduces memory requirements for sampled sounds without compromising sound quality, using three techniques. The... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6057503 | Fixed-location method of composing and performing and a musical instrument A method and apparatus for composing and performing music on an electronic instrument in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while simultaneously making the individual notes of the chord, and/or possible scale and non-... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6011211 | System and method for approximate shifting of musical pitches while maintaining harmonic function in a given context The present invention enables non-musicians to effectively compose music using a computer, and provides them with the means to manipulate musical content in an intuitive fashion without the need for formal musical training. The invention combines a repres... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5900567 | System and method for enhancing musical performances in computer based musical devices A system and a method for the notes of one track to move in a harmonically separate manner from the notes of another track when the notes of each track are played against a chord progression. Each track is associated with a chord function. The notes of th... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5877446 | Data compression of sound data A data compression method and apparatus for the compression of sound data utilized in digital sampling keyboard instruments. The present invention reduces memory requirements for sampled sounds without compromising sound quality, utilizing processing of s... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5864079 | Transposition controller for an electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument has a means used by a player to set a key name to which transposition is to be made and a part number to designate a transposition excluding part. Tone data in parts other than the transposition excluding part are exclusiv... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5862232 | Sound pitch converting apparatus A sound pitch converting apparatus for shifting a pitch of a sound signal, the apparatus utilizes a first windowing device for dividing the sound signal into a series of multiple frames and shaping an envelope of the frames, a pitch frequency detecting de... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5783767 | Fixed-location method of composing and peforming and a musical instrument A method for composing and performing music on an electronic instrument are provided. The method provides a technique in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while simultaneously generating the individual notes of the c... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5687240 | Method and apparatus for processing discontinuities in digital sound signals caused by pitch control Small discontinuities in digital sound data caused by a pitch control operation are processed by using a secondary FIR filter and smoothing the discontinuities. When lowering the key, the data value subject to the pitch down operation is moderately approx... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5684262 | Pitch-modified microphone and audio reproducing apparatus An apparatus for playing back a recording medium on which a plurality of accompaniment signals and identification information indicative of respective genres of the accompaniment signals are recorded includes a playback device, at least one tone converter... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5650584 | Fixed-location method of composing and performing and a musical instrument A method and apparatus for composing and performing music on an electronic instrument in which individual chord progression chords can be triggered in real-time, while simultaneously making the individual notes of the chord, and/or possible scale and non-... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5612501 | Automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus In an automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus, tone pitch information of an accompaniment pattern applied from an external device is converted in tone pitch in accordance with a designation chord, an original chord based on the accompanime... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5583308 | Musical effects apparatus and tone control process for a musical instrument In an automated system for learning to play a musical instrument, music data and tone control data for a musical composition of an exemplary musical instrument is stored in machine readable form. An audio signal generated by a musical instrument being pla... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5525749 | Music composition and music arrangement generation apparatus A musical composition/arrangement assisting apparatus for assisting a composition/arrangement of a multi-part music receives performance information such as melody information, chord information, or the like, and detects candidate tones harmonizing with t... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5477003 | Karaoke sound processor for automatically adjusting the pitch of the accompaniment signal A karaoke sound processor that automatically adjusts to the pitch of the singer's voice is provided. The pitch of the song signal recorded in the accompaniment recording medium for karaoke is detected by a first pitch detecting facility. The pitch of the ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5442129 | Method of and control system for automatically correcting a pitch of a musical instrument A pitch control system for the automatic pitch correction according to a harmony-dependent tuning, especially the harmonic tuning, for a musical instrument, having an input device for the input of note input signals in a pre-determined fixed tuning, espec... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5412153 | Electronic musical instrument having independent pitch control for each key Disclosed is a tone generating apparatus which is provided with a timbre select switch to specify a timbre and a scan circuit for generating key codes corresponding to keys. Pitch control values corresponding to the timbres and key codes are stored in the... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5300729 | Electronic musical instrument having operator with selective control function An electronic musical instrument is provided with an operator and a function switch, adding to a controller having a shape similar to that of woodwind instrument and a tone source unit. The function switch selects a function such as a controll function of... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5231488 | System for displaying and reading patterns displayed on a display unit A system to transfer information from a video screen. A sensor embedded in a suction cup detects an increase in intensity of a synchronizing scan line and an increase in intensity of a data scan line and utilizes the time differential between the two even... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5159141 | Apparatus for controlling reproduction states of audio signals recorded in recording medium and generation states of musical sound signals This invention realizes a musical instrument, automatically transposing the pitches of the sounds reproduced from the musical instruments played by a performer, based on the pitch changes of the reproduced sounds caused by the changes in the reproduction ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5125315 | Electronic musical instrument with selection of standard sound pitch of a natural instrument upon selection of tone color The tonality of scale of electronic musical instrument is set by setting a standard sound pitch (sound pitch of "do"). When a tone color is selected, this setting is automatically performed according to this tone color. In the case when the tone color is ... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5083493 | Electronic musical instrument having key transpose function and a method therefor There is provided an electronic musical instrument for transposing the key comprising a key transpose switching means, a key board having multiple keys each assigned with an identification number, a microcomputer for processing the state signals of the sw... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5078040 | Electronic musical instrument providing transposition during playing When an operation to give a transposition instruction is performed during generation of musical tone, the transposition is not performed for the musical tone being generated but the transposition is performed for only the specific musical tone to which th... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4724736 | Keyboard musical instruments with transpositional function A keyboard musical instrument with a transpositional function includes a keyboard, a mode selection switch, a microcomputer, a musical tone signal generator and a sound system. The keyboard has a plurality of keys respectively representing different notes... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4690026 | Pitch and amplitude calculator and converter which provides an output signal with a normalized frequency A system for converting musical sounds into digital data for use with a electronic synthesizer. An infra red pitch sensor detects pitch of string vibration. Envelope of this signal is filtered and applied to a comparator with floating threshold. Square wa... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4640173 | Electronic musical instrument An electrically-keyed musical instrument has a double-row keyboard in which back digitals alternate with front digitals throughout the keyboard. The keyboard is provided with two sets of landmarks to assist playing from either the traditional notation or ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4635517 | Electric musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument, note frequency data corresponding to a plurality of temperaments are prestored and are selectively read out in accordance with a selected one of the temperaments, generating a note frequency corresponding thereto. Furt... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4368658 | Apparatus for solo harmony transfer in an electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument having a first and second array of keyboard switches apparatus is provided for providing fill-in notes sounded by tone generators assigned to the first keyboard. The fill-in notes are selected by selecting one of a libr... | 01/18/1983 |
