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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7812242 | Electronic musical instruments Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing a musical tone control device for carrying out appropriate control in user-performed operations. A pitch parameter value PB set by a pitch bend wheel may be loaded and a determination may be made... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7355110 | Stringed musical instrument having a built in hand-held type computer An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer (34) located in and forming a portion of the envelope or housing of the stringed m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7259315 | Waveform production method and apparatus Performance event data designating rendition style modules are supplied in order of time. When a given performance event data at a given time is to be processed in accordance with the supplied performance event data, another performance event data related to one or ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253352 | Music playing/processing device and method for playing music file according to playing order of tones The present invention relates to a music playing/processing device for playing a musical file in a wireless communication device and determining the playing order of a plurality of tones of the musical file. The music playing/processing device comprises: an analysis... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7124084 | Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit const... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7096186 | Device and method for analyzing and representing sound signals in the musical notation Sound signal is received which contains sound characteristics to be represented in musical notation. The characteristics, such as a volume level of the sound signal, are extracted out of the received sound signal, and various parameters for use in subsequent analysi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081578 | Musical performance information compression apparatus, and musical performance information decoding apparatus A musical performance information compression apparatus or the like of the present invention has a primary code production unit which separates SMF or the like into information of a relative time between events, information of a sounding start pitch, information of ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6961008 | Scan circuit and method for keyboard A keyboard scan circuit for a device receiving plural inputs simultaneously is provided. The scan circuit includes a plurality of keyboard input/output ports, each of which can be selected from a group consisting of an input mode, an output mode, and a floating mode... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6946595 | Performance data processing and tone signal synthesizing methods and apparatus Each time a predetermined type of note controlling performance data (e.g., note-on event data) is detected from among a series of performance data, deviation values for a plurality of channels, varying in deviation state among the channels, are set such that a contr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6782105 | Reflection sound generator with series of main and supplementary FIR filters A reflection sound generator has a first filter of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) type that is provided with a first set of parameters representing a first distribution pattern of reflection sounds, and a second FIR-type filter provided with a second set of parameter... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6486389 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform with improved link between adjoining module data When adjoining, i.e. Preceding and succeeding, waveform-forming module data are to be interlined, a mutual approaching rate is designated, and the preceding and succeeding module data are modified in accordance with the designated mutual approaching rate.... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6483922 | Method and system for generating a simulated reverberation audio signal A method and apparatus for generating a simulated reverberation characteristic in an input audio signal having a plurality of channels, each channel transmitting time-synchronized data elements. The method and apparatus imparts a unique delay to each elem... | 11/19/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6365817 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform with sample data adjustment based on representative point Set of sample identification information and representative-point designating data is generated in accordance with performance data or the like, and sample data is obtained by referring to a database in accordance with the generated sample identification ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6284964 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform exhibiting rendition style characteristics on the basis of vector data representative of a plurality of sorts of waveform characteristics A waveform producing method includes a step of producing a waveform presenting style-of-rendition characteristics corresponding to style-of-rendition identification information, on the basis of individual vector data arranged on the time axis. Each style-... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6169240 | Tone generating device and method using a time stretch/compression control technique A pitch of a tone to be generated is designated, and simultaneously control information to be used for time-axis stretch/compression control is generated. Discrete locations of waveform data to be read out from memory are designated with the time axis of ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6150598 | Tone data making method and device and recording medium A succession of performance sounds is sampled, and the sampled performance sounds are divided into a plurality of time sections of variable lengths in accordance with respective characteristics of performance expression therein, to extract waveform data o... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6047073 | Digital wavetable audio synthesizer with delay-based effects processing A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects, at either a 44.1 KHz sample rate or at sample rates compatible with a prior art wavetabl... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5789689 | Tube modeling programmable digital guitar amplification system An electric guitar amplifier which utilizes a digital signal processor to produce vacuum-tube-like distortion without certain unwanted audio artifacts created by previous digital realizations of nonlinear, high-gain functions. By virtue of a microprocesso... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5781636 | Method and apparatus for generating sounds with tremolo and vibrato sound effects A digital sound generator with tremolo and vibrato sound effects is provided, which comprises: a source memory for storing different types of wave-tables; a first adder for adding a constant frequency and a step-varied frequency waveform to produce a trem... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5740716 | System and method for sound synthesis using a length-modulated digital delay line A sound synthesis system employs a variable-length delay line whose length is modulated at a frequency that is close to the fundamental frequency of the delay line. By modulating the length of the delay line at a frequency close to the fundamental frequen... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5741991 | Tone signal generator having a sound effect function and efficient memory access A tone signal generator including a memory for storing tone signal data, a parameter generation device for generating parameter data, and a tone signal data generation device for generating the tone signal data by reading it from the memory, according to ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5677504 | Tone signal generator A tone signal generator includes a plurality of tone generation channels, and a tone generation control data memory for storing instruction data for instructing tone generation or tone release and execution data for instructing execution thereof, for each... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5668338 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with low frequency oscillators for tremolo and vibrato effects A digital wavetable audio synthesizer with an LFO generator is described. The synthesizer can generate up to 32 high-quality audio digital signals or voices, including delay-based effects. The synthesizer includes an address generator which has several mo... | 09/16/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5559300 | Delay time modulation effecting apparatus for processing musical tone signal A delay-time-modulation effecting apparatus employed by an electronic musical instrument or the like, is designed to effect a certain delay-time modulation on a musical tone signal so as to realize a desired modulation effect appear on a musical tone to b... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5550320 | Electronic sound generating device for generating musical sound by adding volume fluctuation to predetermined harmonics An electronic sound generating device is proposed which can generate sound that is complex, profound and high in fidelity to acoustic sound. Sound of the acoustic instruments consists of a plurality of harmonics. Some of the harmonics have swings on their... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5488196 | Electronic musical re-performance and editing system A music re-performance system allows a plurality of untrained instrumentalist to play pre-stored music using traditional playing techniques along with an automatic accompaniment at a tempo controlled by a selected-instrumentalist. Instrumentalist's gestur... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5426260 | Device and method for reading sound waveform data A device for reading sound waveform data has a waveform ROM for storing waveform data represented as an amplitude in a time series. Sound waveform data is repeatedly read from the waveform ROM. The reading of a single waveform corresponds to a single peri... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5414210 | Multiple oscillator electronic musical instrument having a reduced number of sub-oscillators and direct-read/write of modulation control signals An electronic musical instrument according to the present invention has oscillators for generating a tone waveform; a modulator for modulating a musical tone; a modulation controller for determining a degree of modulation to be performed by the modulator;... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5412152 | Device for forming tone source data using analyzed parameters Tone waveform data is divided into plural data segments, so that frequency and magnitude of respective spectra contained therein are analyzed for each of the data segments. Analyzation parameters indicative of the frequency and magnitude of the respective... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5387759 | Automatic performance apparatus using separately stored note and technique data for reducing performance data storage requirements An automatic performance apparatus stores performance technique designating data and an automatic performance data in a sequence memory, and performance technique data which varies in a lapse of time in a performance data memory to reduce the amount of se... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5298676 | Tone parameter control apparatus A plurality of groups of tone parameters different in kind required for the generation of a musical sound is stored. The tone parameters of the same kind among those tone parameters are modulated with the same sway signal generated at the same time at a d... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5272276 | Electronic musical instrument adapted to simulate a rubbed string instrument The electronic musical instrument, which is suitable for generating sustaining tone of a rubbed string instrument, has a manipulator for achieving performance manipulation in a linear manipulation region or in a plane manipulation region to simulate the m... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5258574 | Tone generator for storing and mixing basic and differential wave data A tone generator comprises a basic wave memory for storing a first basic wave data of a musical tone signal, a differential wave memory for storing differential wave data between the first basic wave data and a second basic wave data which is different fo... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5254805 | Electronic musical instrument capable of adding musical effect to musical tones An electronic musical instrument has a low frequency oscillator (LFO) for generating a low-frequency signal to impart musical effect such as vibrato to musical tones, and a plurality of tone generating channels. The LFO comprises a random access memory (R... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5245127 | Signal delay circuit, FIR filter and musical tone synthesizer employing the same The present invention provides a signal delay circuit for substantially steplessly changing a delay interval. The signal delay circuit is composed essentially of a delay controller, a first delay circuit, and a second delay circuit. The delay controller g... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5243124 | Electronic musical instrument using FM sound generation with delayed modulation effect A computer having one or more wave tables stored therein is used to synthesize sounds represented by a series of digital samples produced at a sample rate by specifying parameters including a carrier frequency, a modulating frequency and an index of modul... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5243658 | Modulation effect adding apparatus A modulation effect adding apparatus in which when an input signal is written into a memory and read and output with a given delay time, the delay time is changed depending on an LFO waveform to thereby add a modulation effect to the input signal. The LFO... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5212334 | Digital signal processing using closed waveguide networks A tone generation system includes one or more digital waveguide networks coupled to one or more junctions, one of which receives a control signal for controlling tone generation. The control signal initiates and interacts with a wave signal propagating th... | 05/18/1993 |
