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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7390957 | Information processing apparatus and sound volume control method An information processing apparatus comprises an operating member used for changing a sound volume, a display device which displays volume data of the sound volume changed in response to an operation of the operating member and a controller which changes the volume ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7361825 | Electronic keyboard instrument In an electronic keyboard instrument, each key moves from an initial position to a full stroke position via first, second, and third positions sequentially. A velocity detector detects a first key velocity of the key when the key moves from the first position to the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351903 | Musical composition data editing apparatus, musical composition data distributing apparatus, and program for implementing musical composition data editing method There is provided a musical composition data editing apparatus which enables the generation of musical composition data using which a user can cause his/her own musical image to be reflected to a high degree in a musical composition performance through simple operat... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7039477 | Device and method for processing tone data by controlling sampling rate From a storage device storing waveform sample data sampled at a given sampling rate, the waveform sample data are read out asynchronously with the given sampling rate and temporarily stored in an input buffer. The thus-stored waveform sample data are read out from t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6931124 | Soft mute circuit A soft mute circuit includes a programmable amplifier controlled by a register. Data is stored in the register from an adder that combines the current data in the register with a second number for increasing or decreasing the gain of the amplifier. A summation circu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6895290 | Limiting the damaging effects of loud music from audio systems, particularly from automobile audio systems Minimizing the damaging effects of loud music but with minimal reduction in aesthetic quality of the music. When music presented through an audio is sampled in order to determine average frequency, music having very low average frequencies is predictably likely to b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6548749 | Electronic musical instrument and tone volume control method Multipliers respectively multiply a tone signal supplied from a sound source and a tone signal corrected by a filter according to hearing correction characteristics by balance control coefficients generated by a control coefficient generator based on tone... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6531652 | Method and apparatus for producing a waveform based on a style-of-rendition module Style-of-rendition identification information representing a style of rendition of a performance tone is received, and reference is made to a predetermined table on the basis of the received style-of-rendition identification information to thereby obtain,... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6350943 | Electric instrument amplifier An electric instrument amplifier emulates an audio characteristics of a traditional vacuum-tube type amplifier. The electric instrument amplifier is formed in a single housing for amplifying an audio signal from an electric instrument. The electric instru... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6281421 | Remix apparatus and method for generating new musical tone pattern data by combining a plurality of divided musical tone piece data, and storage medium storing a program for implementing the method A remix apparatus and a remix method are provided, which can generate new musical tone pattern data with new tempo and groove while partly maintaining the tempo and groove of the original musical tone pattern data. Musical tone pattern data having a first... | 08/28/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6111183 | Audio signal synthesis system based on probabilistic estimation of time-varying spectra The present invention describes methods and means for estimating the time-varying spectrum of an audio signal based on a conditional probability density function (PDF) of spectral coding vectors conditioned on pitch and loudness values. Using this PDF a t... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6064743 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with waveform volume control for eliminating zipper noise 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... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5998726 | Musical sound generating system with controlled tone A musical sound generating system which generates musical sounds having desired tone regardless of the variation of volume setting. In the musical sound generating system, the standard tone control touch curve TCstd, the maximum tone control touch curve T... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5977470 | Electronic musical instrument with independent control of expression and effect An electronic musical instrument has a processing circuit for adding a reverberation tone after volume control using expression data generated upon operation of an expression pedal to generate tone data which does not vary the attenuation characteristics ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5977471 | Midi localization alone and in conjunction with three dimensional audio rendering A method of and apparatus for enhancing an audio signal to reflect positional information of a sound emitting object in a simulation are described. The method includes determining a parameter describing a location of the sound emitting object. A setting f... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5834672 | Non-linear tone generator A method and apparatus for producing a tone (e.g. for music) without use of a waveform memory and using a feedback loop. The feedback loop includes a waveform generator which calculates, in real time, a parabolic approximation to a sine wave. The feedback... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5789690 | Electronic sound source having reduced spurious emissions An electronic sound source comprises an adder which calculates a sum of volume data and differential volume data in response to each clock signal supplied at equal intervals of time and transfers it to a limiter and a volume register. The sum volume data ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5742695 | Wavetable audio synthesizer with waveform volume control for eliminating zipper noise A wavetable audio synthesizer with means for eliminating zipper noise caused by large volume increments, especially at slower rates of volume increment. The wavetable audio synthesizer includes shift circuitry which stores the value of volume increment in... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5731534 | Method and apparatus for imparting an effect to a tone signal with grade designation An effect imparting processing and other processing are executed by shared use of a same microprocessor. When the other processing involves a relatively great amount of calculation, the effect imparting processing is set to a lower grade to reduce the amo... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5635658 | Sound control system for controlling an effect, tone volume and/or tone color A data set including data representing volume levels of an original sound and of an effect-imparted sound that has been set by a first musical instrument is transmitted to a second musical instrument. If any effect corresponding to the transmitted effect ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5559301 | Touchscreen interface having pop-up variable adjustment displays for controllers and audio processing systems A touchscreen interface for a sound processing system, such as music synthesizers, which has a display panel and a touch sensitive panel overlying the display panel, includes an icon which represents an adjustable parameter used by the processing system. ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5552561 | Playing-style detecting apparatus and electronic musical instrument utilizing the same An electronic musical instrument can perform a musical-tone control according to a playing-style. In the instrument, a touch sensor is provided for each key on a keyboard, and pressure sensors are also provided under the keys. Each touch sensor detects a ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5536903 | Musical tone synthesizing apparatus having a loop circuit A musical tone synthesizing apparatus at least comprises two loop circuits. Each loop circuit delays an input signal thereof by a delay time corresponding to a tone-pitch period of a musical tone to be produced while circulating the input signal therethro... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5455380 | Electronic musical instrument altering tone sound effects responsive to number of channels or tone range An electronic musical instrument changes sound effects, such as resonance and reverberation, during a performance. The instrument has a tone-ON channel counter, for counting keys that are simultaneously depressed; an output channel determination unit, for... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5398585 | Fingerboard for musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is designed in a generally guitar-shaped configuration with a fingerboard containing rows of keys replacing each string, one key for each string/fret position. Pressing on a key causes a signal to be provided to a central ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5391829 | Electronic musical instrument with an automated performance function An electronic musical instrument with an automatic performance function includes manual performance device, an automatic performance device and a control. The manual performance device, having a plurality of performance manipulators to be performed by a p... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5374776 | System for processing musical sound data having overflow/underflow compensation A system for use in an electronic musical instrument, which system includes a musical sound generating unit for generating a musical sound, and a detection unit for detecting that the magnitude of the musical sound data generated by the musical sound gene... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5315059 | Channel assigning system for electronic musical instrument A preferential order of channel vacating is determined according to a musical character of musical tones having assigned channels, thus permitting a channel assignment which does not depart from the harmony of the musical tone. The greater the number of t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5313523 | Sound volume controlling apparatus The sound volume controlling apparatus comprises UP and DOWN keys (42, 43) depressed manually; a time period detecting circuit (39h, 39d) for detecting time period from when the duration of UP or DOWN key depression reaches a predetermined value (e.g. 0.5... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5286907 | Apparatus for reproducing musical accompaniment information There are disclosed an apparatus adapted to generate musical information of a synthetic sound in accordance with the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard to carry out PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) recording of a natural effect sound includin... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5231240 | Digital tone mixer A digital tone mixer includes a first digital volume regulator electrically connected to a first tone generator and having a binary signal output corresponding to the desired amplitude of a pulsating tone signal from the first tone generator; a second dig... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5220121 | Melody supplement control apparatus A melody supplement control apparatus is disclosed wherein supplementary tones for melody tones are produced according to predetermined rules, and the degree of the addition of the aforesaid supplementary tones to the aforesaid melody tones is determined ... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5185492 | Electronic musical instrument having multivoice function for generating musical tones of plural tone colors An electronic musical instrument having a function of simultaneously generating musical tones of a plural tone color comprises a tone color designating device for designating a plurality of tone colors, and a balance decision device for deciding balance o... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5179242 | Method and apparatus for controlling sound source for electronic musical instrument In controlling a sound source for an electronic musical instrument, operation data of a performance operation member corresponding to musical tone control parameters of a musical instrument is converted according to a tone generation region characteristic... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5179240 | Electronic musical instrument with a melody and rhythm generator An electronic musical instrument provides a keyboard providing plural keys, memories for storing necessary programs and data, a musical tone signal generating circuit providing plural channels and a control unit such as a micro computer. A melody tone is ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5166464 | Electronic musical instrument having a reverberation Either the frequency of phase of an original musical sound signal is modulated, the musical sound signal is weighted, a reverberation effect is added thereto and the thus modified signal is added with the original musical sound signal.... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5127301 | Wear for controlling a musical tone The wear for controlling a musical tone consists of a wear worn by a player, a main body and at least one detector for detecting a certain movement of the player. The main body is mounted at a player's waist, and the detector is mounted at a player's join... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5127306 | Apparatus for applying panning effects to musical tone signals and for periodically moving a location of sound image An apparatus for producing panned tones comprises tone generator for generating a plurality of tone signals, the tone generator including a plurality of channels each for generating one of the plurality of tone signals. The plurality of tone signals gener... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5123323 | Apparatus and method for designating an extreme-value channel in an electronic musical instrument A detector unit is provided which receives envelope signals related to a predetermined number N of channels to detect a channel showing a greatest or smallest level of the envelope signal among the N channels and outputs data indicative of the detected ch... | 06/23/1992 |
