Automatic accompaniment system with musical breaks
AssigneeRoland Corporation
InventorsFrancesco Rauchi, Luigi Bruti
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Abstract
An electronic musical instrument includes first and second control switches for initiating chorus and verse break patterns in an automatic accompaniment arrangement. A chorus accompaniment pattern is automatically generated following the chorus break pattern and a verse accompaniment pattern is automatically generated following the verse break pattern, regardless of the pattern types generated prior to the breaks. The generation of breaks are inhibited during the last 1/4 interval of a bar and during the generation of the introduction and ending portions of the accompaniment arrangement.
Claims6
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- memory means including a plurality of memory sections respectively storing a verse accompaniment pattern, a chorus accompaniment pattern, a verse break pattern and a chorus break pattern;
- first and second switch means operable by a performer for respectively generating first and second control signals;
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- control means coupled to said memory means for playing said verse and chorus accompaniment patterns and responsive to said first control signal for interrupting the playing of said verse or chorus accompaniment patterns with the playing of said chorus break pattern and thereafter automatically resuming playing of said chorus accompaniment pattern and responsive to said second control signal for interrupting the playing of said verse or chorus accompaniment patterns with the playing of said verse break pattern and thereafter automatically resuming playing of said verse accompaniment pattern.
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- memory means including a plurality of memory sections respectively storing first and second different break patterns and first and second different portions of an automatic accompaniment pattern, the first and second portions corresponding respectively to different sections of a musical performance;
- first switch means operable by a performer for generating a first control signal;
- second switch means operable by a performer for generating a second control signal;
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- control means coupled to said memory means for playing said stored portions of said automatic accompaniment pattern, said control means being responsive to said first control signal for interrupting the playing of said first portion with the playing of said first break pattern and thereafter automatically resuming the playing of said second portion and responsive to said second control signal for interrupting the playing of said second portion with the playing of said second break pattern and thereafter automatically resuming the playing of said first portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.