Electronic musical instrument utilizing neural net

An electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising:

• parameter input means for providing a parameter;
• a neural net device for utilizing said parameter provided by said parameter input means, said neural net device having a layer of output neurons for providing output data;
• change means for changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal, said change means including:
• a. a weighting data memory for storing weighting data to be fed to said neural net device as a weighting factor for weighting said output data as musical values of said neural net;
• b. weighting data selecting means for selecting said weighting data in said weighting data memory;
• c. a modification knowledge memory for storing modification knowledge for modifying said musical values from said neural net;
• and
• d. output modification means using said modification knowledge for modifying said musical vales from said neural net so as to be musically acceptable.

An electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising:

• parameter input means for providing a parameter;
• neural net device for utilizing the parameter provided by said parameter input means, said neural net device having a layer of output neurons for providing output data;
• change means for changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal;
• and
• modification means for storing modification knowledge to modify said musical pattern signal, and for modifying said musical pattern signal using said modification knowledge so as to be musically acceptable.

An electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising:

• parameter input means for providing a parameter, said parameter input means including a selectable random numbers generator for generating a random number as said parameter;
• a neural net device for utilizing the parameter provided by said parameter input means, said neural net device having a layer of output neurons for providing output data;
• and
• change means for changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal.

An electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising:

• parameter input means for providing a parameter;
• a neural net device for utilizing the parameter provided by said parameter input means, said neural net device having a layer of output neurons for providing output data, said layer of output neurons comprising a plurality of output layer neurons respectively corresponding to tone generation timings of a set of musical tones to be generated;
• change means for changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal;
• and
• modification means for storing modification knowledge to modify said musical pattern signal, and for modifying said musical pattern signal using said modification knowledge so as to be musically acceptable.

A method using an electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising the steps of:

• providing a parameter;
• utilizing said provided parameter in a neural net device having a layer of output neurons;
• providing output data from said layer of output neurons;
• changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal;
• storing modification knowledge to modify said musical pattern signal;
• and
• modifying said musical pattern signal using said stored modification knowledge so as to be musically acceptable.

A method of using an electronic musical instrument utilizing neural nets, comprising the steps of:

• selectably generating a random number as a parameter;
• utilizing said parameter in a neural net device having a layer of output neurons for providing output data;
• producing output data from said layer of output neurons;
• and
• changing said output data from said neural net device into a musical pattern signal.