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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7923623 | Electric instrument music control device with multi-axis position sensors An electric instrument music control device is provided having at least two multi-axis position sensors. One sensor is a reference multi-axis position sensor retained in a fixed position the reference multi-axis position sensor having at least one axis held in a fix... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7426417 | Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for editing the audio track. To process audio data in a first interval of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7247783 | Cooperative musical instrument A series of musical vehicles form a cooperative musical instrument. Each musical vehicle may be outfitted with a musical tone generator and horn, or loud speaker that plays a particular note on a music scale. Each musical vehicle may have multiple horns or speakers ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 6909041 | Sound field control method and sound field control system Reverberation characteristics of an original sound field and a reproduction sound field are measured and a difference between the reverberation characteristics is obtained. A reflected sound pattern added to reproduction sound is calculated so that the reverberation... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6399868 | Sound effect generator and audio system A sound field effect adding apparatus is provided to add such effects as reverberation to the musical tone signal of an electronic organ and the like, and to produce a sound field effect. It is possible to create a satisfactory reproduced sound field to w... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6242682 | Component mount and components for musical instruments A mount by which a component is non-destructively mounted on a musical instrument includes a receptacle and one or more abutment members, such as resilient clips, which do not screw into the instrument but engage the instrument to hold the mount on the in... | 06/05/2001 |
| 5633474 | Sound effects control system for musical instruments A sound effects control system for musical instruments comprises a tactile controller and a control box. The controller generates, by means of manual or other bodily manipulation, a control signal which is communicated to the control box. The control box ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5561257 | Control system for a musical instrument A control system for a musical instrument, e.g., an electric guitar, which is programmable so that a tremolo characteristic can be applied to the audio signal produced by the musical instrument. The tremolo characteristic can be comprised of a combination... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5543579 | Effector There is provided an effector for providing a musical tone with an effect such as a delay, a reverberation, a chorus and the like. The effector is capable of providing a feeling of listening such that the direct tone and the effect tone unites with each o... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5521330 | Sound control device and method for uniformly shifting the phase of sound data A sound control device and method which increase the width of sound of sound data by controlling and outputting the phase of the sound data, in which the phase of the generated sound data is uniformly shifted over the entire frequency band of the related ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5478969 | Control system for a musical instrument A control system for a musical instrument, e.g., an electric guitar, which is programmable so that a tremolo characteristic can be applied to the audio signal produced by the musical instrument. The tremolo characteristic can be comprised of a combination... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5430243 | Sound effect-creating device A sound effect-creating device for imparting a sound effect to a musical tone produced by performance delays a musical tone signal of an analog or digital type by a predetermined delay time to repeatedly generate the musical tone. The predetermined delay ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5177311 | Musical tone control apparatus The musical tone control apparatus includes at least a sensor for detecting a movement of a player and a control circuit for controlling a tone element of a musical tone to be generated based on the detected movement of the player. The sensor may be equip... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5136915 | Touch response control for an electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument capable of producing a key touch feeling resembling one in playing the piano by the provision of a hammer which is interlocked with a key, key-on data and touch data are generated in response to downward displacement of... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5133014 | Semiconductor emulation of tube amplifiers A distortion synthesizer, having a first distortion circuit, a tone control circuit for altering the tonality of the first distorted signal and a second distortion circuit for introducing harmonics into said tone controlled signal. At least one of the dis... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5025703 | Electronic stringed instrument An electronic stringed instrument employs a plurality of sensors or monitors for instrument performance. Preferred sensors or monitors include a detector for detecting that a string of the instrument is vibrated, an apparatus for evaluating a string-vibra... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4967635 | Electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument of the waveshape memory type including at least one waveshape memory for storing and reproducing sample values of a musical sound wave to be generated, the waveshape memory stores the sample values of the complete waves... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4951546 | Electronic stringed musical instrument For elimination of an error made in a sound production, an electronic fretted and stringed musical instrument operates in a parameter adjusting mode of operation prior to a playing mode of operation, and the fret positions are adjusted for actual fret mem... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4919031 | Electronic stringed instrument of the type for controlling musical tones in response to string vibration When picking of a string is performed, the vibration of the string is detected accurately and quickly. When a fret operation position is changed during generation of a musical tone caused by the string picking, the pitch of the musical tone is changed to ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4915002 | Music synthesizer adjunct A music synthesizer has a pivotable and slidable bar mounted in front of the keyboard of the synthesizer, the bar disposed generally parallel thereto whereby a wrist of a player may cause the bar either to pivot about an external hinge or pivot, or to sli... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4879937 | Sound effector A sound effector for changing original sound signals generated from an electric musical instrument and picked up by a pickup element. The effector having an inductance circuit into aurally improved distinctive sounds by suitably distorting the waveform in... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4646611 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is provided with a temporal variation circuit of SCF parameters for temporally varying the filter characteristic of a switched capacitor filter circuit, a control circuit for digitally controlling the temporal variation ci... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4438674 | Musical expression pedal An expression pedal assembly for a musical instrument with conventional electromechanical control means of the pedal being replaced by proximity control means. The pedal assembly is comprised of a casing which houses a proximity detector plate, a proximit... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4405832 | Circuit for distorting an audio signal Circuitry is provided for distorting an audio signal, useful in providing a "dirty" sound to an electric guitar simulating a vacuum tube amplification thereof. The circuit includes components for simultaneously changing the amount of distortion introduced... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4356751 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument comprises a musical tone production circuit responsive to a depressed key among a plurality of keys, and a control circuit for controlling tone production manner which includes a plurality of manually operated members moun... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4342244 | Musical apparatus A musical apparatus including a novel combination by which a musician may control the output of a musical synthesizer, while playing his own musical instrument in a normal manner. The musical synthesizer may be pre-programmed for many unusual and exciting... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4338845 | System for expanding the dynamic volume range of electronic musical instruments An electronic musical instrument wherein depression of a key entails the discharge of a primary capacitor which is connected to the inverting input of an operational amplifier whose output is connected with a second capacitor serving to supply envelope co... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4322995 | Music synthesizer There is disclosed herein a music synthesizer which responds to a music note played by a music instrument. The synthesizer has an envelope generator which generates a control signal in relation to the input signal to control the loudness of the synthesize... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4300435 | Synthesizer for organ voices In an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, certain organ voices are synthesized by applying a tone signal to a voltage controlled low-pass sharp cutoff filter, the pass characteristic of which has a relatively sharp knee and a rapid... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4294155 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical keyboard instrument that is controlled by a digital processor. Key and stops/effects statuses are sampled, during successive time intervals, and read into random access memory associated with the digital processor. After manipulation... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4276802 | Electronic keyboard instrument An electronic keyboard instrument generates signals of frequencies respectively corresponding to keys by depressing the keys of a keyboard from a signal source, and reproduces a musical note corresponding to the generated signal. The frequency spectrum of... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4215618 | Apparatus for presetting musical tone effects in electronic musical instrument An arrangement for presetting musical tone effects in an electronic musical instrument in which a first system is provided with a plurality of tablet-shaped switches which are connected through respective memory elements in a memory circuit to respective ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4205578 | Electronic musical instrument signal generator An AC keying transient is simulated in a DC keyed electronic musical instrument by gating a pseudorandom frequency noise source output to the audio output circuit of the instrument during a brief time interval initiated by a legato pulse. The level of the... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4189971 | Electronic musical instrument system having independent tone cabinet An electronic musical instrument system comprising an electronic musical instrument body and a separate tone cabinet connected together by a cable. The electronic musical instrument body includes a plurality of tone coloring circuits to produce different ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4137809 | Arpeggio system for electronic organs An arpeggiator for an electronic organ, comprising a source of ramp voltage having selectively a slowly ascending and a slowly descending section or only a slowly ascending section followed by a rapid reset, an accordion-like voltage divider for said ramp... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4121489 | Electronic musical instrument having plural oscillators starting in phase An electronic musical instrument comprises a plurality of tone generators for independently producing tone signals having slightly different frequencies, though fundamentally corresponding to the note of a key depressed on a keyboard; and a mixing circuit... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4099135 | Electronic echo device An electronic echo device comprising an input amplifier, an output amplifier connected therewith across a transfer channel, a delay device connected in parallel to said channel, and a feedback path connected in parallel to said delay device. According to ... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4096778 | Apparatus for processing tone signals Apparatus for producing vibrato has several analog shift registers with at least 29 stages whose inputs receive tone signals from an electronic musical device such as an organ or guitar and are connected to each other. The outputs of the shift ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4080862 | Electronic musical instrument having octave slide effect An electronic musical instrument wherein, by merely depressing one key, the tone pitch corresponding to that key varies periodically with cyclic repetition at a specific rate. The pitch variation is made on the octave basis by periodically shifting digits... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4023455 | Circuit for imitating the speech characteristics of reed organ pipes In an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, the speech characteristics of reed organ pipes are simulated by applying pulses produced by key-actuated tone generators, which pulses are preferably narrow as compared to their repetition ... | 05/17/1977 |
