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US 5,125,315 AGranted
Electronic musical instrument with selection of standard sound pitch of a natural instrument upon selection of tone color
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorSusumu Kawashima
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Abstract
The tonality of scale of electronic musical instrument is set by setting a standard sound pitch (sound pitch of "do"). When a tone color is selected, this setting is automatically performed according to this tone color. In the case when the tone color is similar to that of natural musical instrument, setting is executed so that the tonality of pertinent musical instrument is set.
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An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
- a plurality of keys for manual operation by a player;
- tone color selecting means for generating tone color data designating a selected one of a plurality of tone colors;
- pitch control means responsive to operation of a combination of the plurality of keys within the plurality of keys for generating tone pitch data corresponding to the generated tone color data and to the combination of operated keys;
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- tone generating means for generating a musical tone having a tone color designated by the tone color data and a tone pitch determined by the tone pitch data;
- the pitch control means comprising first memory means for storing a plurality of reference pitch data, each corresponding to the tone color data, means for generating tone pitch data corresponding to the generated tone color data using data from the plurality of reference pitch data which correspond to the generated tone color data, second memory means for storing pattern data which relates the combination of operated keys to different pitch data, and means for generating tone pitch data corresponding to the combination of operated keys by addition of the reference pitch data to the different pitch data corresponding to the combination of operated keys.
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An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
- a plurality of keys for manual operation by a player;
- tone color selecting means for generating tone color data designating a selected one of a plurality of tone colors;
- pattern memory means for storing plural sets of pattern data which relate combinations of the plurality of keys which are operated to pitch data, each set of pattern data corresponding to one of the plurality of tone colors;
- pitch control means responsive to operated keys from the plurality of keys for transforming the combination of operated keys to tone pitch data using one of the plural sets of pattern data selected by the tone color data, the generated tone pitch data corresponding to the combination of operated keys;
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- tone generating means for generating a musical tone having a tone color designated by the tone color data and a tone pitch determined by the tone pitch data.
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An electronic musical instrument for generating musical tones having pitches corresponding to combinations of pitch designating operators, comprising:
- tone color designating means for designating one of a plurality of tone colors corresponding to one of a plurality of musical tones;
- tone pitch storing means for storing standard pitch data for each of the plurality of tone colors, the standard pitch data corresponding to a specific combination of pitch designating operators;
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- pitch transposing means for transposing a pitch of a musical tone of the plurality of tone colors based on the standard pitch data so that a pitch to be generated corresponding to the specific combination of pitch designating operators and a designated one of a plurality of tone colors becomes a standard pitch therefore.
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