Electronic musical instrument with pitch alteration function
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorShigeo Sakashita
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AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorShigeo Sakashita
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The present electronic musical instrument can apply to various electronic musical instruments, such as an electronic wind instrument, electronic keyboard instrument and electronic string instrument. Pitch alteration width data with a predetermined pitch difference with respect to a tone being presently generated is stored in advance in a memory section, and by alternately performing the following two operations thereby to ensure a trill performance with a pitch having an arbitrary pitch alteration width by a simple pitch alteration operation. (1) A predetermined musical tone is generated at the presently-designated pitch by the pitch designation operation executed with respect to a pitch designating section. (2) A predetermined musical tone is generated at a pitch higher or lower than the presently-designated pitch, in accordance with the pitch alteration width data, by the pitch alteration designating operation executed with respect to a pitch alteration designating section.
An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
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