Automatic performance apparatus
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorKazuhisa Ueki
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Abstract
An automatic performance apparatus comprises a storage device that stores performance data and accompaniment data having a plurality of sections, a detector that detects a specific note in the performance data, a reproduction device that simultaneously reproduces the performance data and the accompaniment pattern data, and a controller that controls the reproduction device to change the section at a point of the detected specific note. A musical performance that is rich in variations can be performed easily with simple automatic performance data.
Claims6
An automatic performance apparatus, comprising:
- a storage device that stores performance data and accompaniment data having a plurality of sections;
- a detector that detects a specific note in the performance data;
- a reproduction device that simultaneously reproduces the performance data and the accompaniment pattern data;
- and
- a controller that controls the reproduction device to change the section at a point of the detected specific note.
An automatic performance program which a computer executes, comprising the instructions for:
- reading performance data and accompaniment data having a plurality of sections from a storage device;
- detecting a specific note in the performance data;
- simultaneously reproducing the performance data and the accompaniment pattern data;
- and
- controlling the reproduction device to change the section at a point of the detected specific note.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.