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US 5,223,658 AGranted
Electronic keyboard instrument with pad
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorSatoshi Suzuki
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Abstract
An electronic keyboard instrument having a performance pad, a detector, a memory, and a sound system. The detector detects a key touch of a key depressed to assign a percussion tone to the pad. The memory stores the key touch detected by the detector with the percussion tone of the depressed key. The sound system produces the stored percussion tone in accordance with the key touch stored in the memory.
Claims6
An electronic instrument comprising:
- a performance pad to be played by a player;
- performance elements, each corresponding to a percussion tone, to be played by a player;
- detection means for, when a performance element is played, detecting the played performance element and the play touch representing a strength in playing the performance element;
- assigning means for assigning to the performance pad the percussion tone and the play touch corresponding to the played performance element detected by said detecting means;
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- means for, when said performance pad is played, producing the assigned percussion tone in accordance with the assigned play touch.
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An electronic instrument comprising:
- a performance pad to be played by a player;
- performance elements, each corresponding to a percussion tone, to be played by a player;
- detection means for, when a performance element is played, detecting the played performance element and the play touch representing a strength on playing the performance element;
- storage means for storing first data designating the percussion tone corresponding to the played performance element and second data designating the play touch corresponding to the played performance element;
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- means for, when said performance pad is played, producing the percussion tone signal disignated with the first data in accordance with the play touch designated with the second data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.