Automatic accompaniment apparatus and a storage device storing a program for operating the same
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorsMasao Kondo, Satoshi Miyata
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Abstract
An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data; and a reproducing unit for reading the stored accompaniment style data and reproducing the read accompaniment style data, the reproducing unit reproducing the read accompaniment style data by replacing a portion thereof with the replacement accompaniment data. The automatic accompaniment apparatus can generate derivative accompaniment style data from original accompaniment data with ease.
Claims9
An automatic accompaniment apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including both basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data, which includes performance event data having time information, to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data;
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- a reproducing unit for reading the stored accompaniment style data and reproducing the read accompaniment style data, said reproducing unit reproducing the read accompaniment style data by replacing a portion of said basic accompaniment data with the replacement accompaniment data.
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