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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396991 | Electronic percussion instrument, system and method with rim shot detection An electronic percussion instrument includes input means, comparison means, and musical tone generation control means. The input means allows for the input of a vibration of a head section and a vibration of a rim section that have been detected by a striking detect... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7271331 | Musical synthesizer with expressive portamento based on pitch wheel control The present invention is a musical synthesizer that can respond to a pitch wheel control by generating realistic slide-step-slide and slide-step portamento pitch curves. The musical synthesizer responds to a pitch wheel control in a context sensitive manner. When a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6590840 | Recording medium reproduction apparatus A recording medium reproduction apparatus is provided, which apparatus includes: a reproduction instruction unit which inputs instructions on a direction and a rate of a scratch reproduction of a recording medium; a data storage unit which stores data rea... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6376759 | Electronic keyboard instrument An electronic keyboard instrument is basically configured by a keyboard, a microcomputer, a tone generator and a sound system as well as sensors, switches and foot switches. Each of keys of the keyboard is equipped with a variety of sensors and switches s... | 04/23/2002 |
| 5741993 | Electronic keyboard having a discrete pitch bender Provided is an electronic keyboard, which has a sequentially variable operating terminal, that comprises: a detector for detecting an operational displacement of the sequentially variable operating terminal, a linear converter for converting into a linear... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5642470 | Singing voice synthesizing device for synthesizing natural chorus voices by modulating synthesized voice with fluctuation and emphasis Music information and word information are input to a music/word information input unit. A voice part extracting unit extracts note length information, pitch information, loudness information, and phonetic symbols from the music information and the word i... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5512704 | Electronic sound signal generator achieving scratch sound effect using scratch readout from waveform memory While a sound waveform is reproductively read out from a waveform memory in accordance with a readout rate designated in correspondence to a desired pitch, scratch control data for controlling readout rate and readout direction are generated using a manua... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5403971 | Electronic musical instrument with portamento function An electronic musical instrument having portamento function comprises playing keys, a musical tone signal generating device, a key depression detection device, and a control device. The key depression detection device detects a displacement of a depressed... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5241126 | Electronic musical instrument capable of simulating special performance effects An electronic musical instrument includes a performance operator such as a bar-like member, a position detection circuit for detecting a play position on the performance operator and generating position information corresponding to the play position, a ci... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5216189 | Electronic musical instrument having slur effect An electronic musical instrument effects the slur on several continuous notes when the slur is selected. The slur performance is detected based on performance information which is generated when performing the keyboard. Then, states of musical tones to be... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5136916 | Electronic musical instrument An electroic musical instrument of the present invention is provided with a damper control as well as tone generation instructin device and tone generation device. While the damper control is operated, the tone generation device continues tone generation ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5119713 | Electronic musical instrument having a portamento function utilizing whole and half transformations A keyboard and a portamento bar are connected to a tone generator through a common channel assigner to use each tone generating channel either for generating a keyboard sound or for generating a portamento sound. Thus, a portamento sound can be generated ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4920850 | Electronic musical instrument with data modification means for modifying output sound Combinations of operation data such as timbre data, effect data, and the like, which are designated for a musical performance, are stored in a memory. The operation data is read out from the memory, and a musical tone signal corresponding to the readout o... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4920851 | Automatic musical tone generating apparatus for generating musical tones with slur effect The automatic musical tone generating apparatus for generating musical tones with slur effect includes a pitch information storing device, a read-out device for reading out pitch information at a predetermined tempo from the pitch information storing devi... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4653374 | Electronic musical instrument with a bender provided separately from performance keys A digital pitch bend signal is supplied from an A/D converter to a first coefficient multiplier for every predetermined sampling period. An output of the first coefficient multiplier is added with an output of a second coefficient multiplier at an adder a... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4539885 | Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument which employs frequency numbers and is capable of producing a natural and expressive effect such as vibrato or the like with a simple structure. The electronic musical instrument is provided with a frequency number memory ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4528884 | Wave reading apparatus A wave reading apparatus includes a wave generator for generating a plurality of wave signals, a read-out frequency generator for generating a plurality of read-out frequencies, a controller for controlling calculation, writing and reading of wave samples... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4515058 | Adaptive tone generator assignment in a keyboard electronic musical instrument A keyboard operated electronic musical instrument is disclosed in which a first set of tone generators is assigned to actuated keyswitches on a first keyboard and a second set of tone generators is nominally assigned to actuated keyswitches on a second ke... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4442751 | Effect generating system for an electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument which is equipped with the function of producing both glide and vibrato effects, a circuit is provided so that when the glide effect starts to restore to its ordinary pitch, delayed vibrato is started, thereby eliminati... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4354414 | Constant speed polyphonic portamento system A keyboard operated electronic musical instrument with polyphonic portamento and glissando effects in which each key controls one of a number of tone generators through a table of frequency numbers. The frequency transitions are achieved by subtracting th... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4347772 | Electronic musical instruments capable of varying tone pitch during one key depression For the purpose of sequentially varying a tone pitch of a generated musical tone, a variation information generator is provided which is operable by a performer to generate a variation information designating an arvitrary variation rate of the tone pitch.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4237764 | Electronic musical instruments In an electronic musical instrument of digital processing type, key codes are stored in a memory channel by channel for respective tone productions. The stored key codes are utilized for determining pitches of respective tones to be produced. Upon depress... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4235142 | Electronic musical instrument of time-shared digital processing type An electronic musical instrument is of a time-shared digital processing type and capable of producing musical tones for a special performance. There are provided, at suitable time intervals, time periods in which no key code of a depressed key is produced... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4122743 | Electronic musical instrument with glide In a digital type electronic musical instrument, a glide effect is produced by digitally frequency-modulating the frequency of a musical tone in such a manner that the frequency changes quickly and smoothly. Glide information used for effecting this frequ... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4073209 | Method and circuitry for digital-analog frequency generation A method and circuitry for frequency generation, especially for electronic organs, in which a digital signal is developed by the actuation of an element such as a key of an organ keyboard. The digital signal is converted to a respective voltage signal and... | 02/14/1978 |
| 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 |
