Electronic musical instrument, method, and storage medium
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Danjyo, Fumiaki Ota, Atsushi Nakamura
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Abstract
An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: causing a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output not to be advanced no matter how the second keys in the second pitch range are operated while a key operation in the first pitch range is being continuously maintained; and causing the syllable position to advance every time a key operation in the second pitch range is performed while none of the first keys in the first pitch range is being operated.
Claims13
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range, the first keys being configurable to specify, instead of specifying pitches in the first pitch range, a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output, the first keys, in ascending pitch order from a lower pitch key to a higher pitch key, respectively specifying syllables in the phrase in the order in which the syllables appear in the phrase;
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- at least one processor, configured to perform the following:
- causing the syllable position not to be advanced no matter how the second keys in the second pitch range are operated while a key operation in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being continuously maintained;
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- causing the syllable position to advance from a last syllable position every time a key operation in the second pitch range is performed while none of the first keys in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being operated since a last key operation in the first pitch range that has specified said last syllable position.
A method performed by at least one processor included in an electronic musical instrument that includes, in addition to the at least one processor, a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range, the first keys being configurable to specify, instead of specifying pitches in the first pitch range, a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output, the first keys, in ascending pitch order from a lower pitch key to a higher pitch key, respectively specifying syllables in the phrase in the order in which the syllables appear in the phrase, the method comprising, via the at least one processor:
- causing the syllable position not to be advanced no matter how the second keys in the second pitch range are operated while a key operation in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being continuously maintained;
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- causing the syllable position to advance from a last syllable position every time a key operation in the second pitch range is performed while none of the first keys in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being operated since a last key operation in the first pitch range that has specified said last syllable position.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program readable by at least one processor included in an electronic musical instrument that includes, in addition to the at least one processor, a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range, the first keys being configurable to specify, instead of specifying pitches in the first pitch range, a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output, the first keys, in ascending pitch order from a lower pitch key to a higher pitch key, respectively specifying syllables in the phrase in the order in which the syllables appear in the phrase, the program instructing the at least one processor to perform the following:
- causing the syllable position not to be advanced no matter how the second keys in the second pitch range are operated while a key operation in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being continuously maintained;
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- causing the syllable position to advance from a last syllable position every time a key operation in the second pitch range is performed while none of the first keys in the first pitch range configured to specify the syllable position is being operated since a last key operation in the first pitch range that has specified said last syllable position.
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