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US 5,399,801 AGranted
Electronic musical instrument having an automatic stroke performance function
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorsMasahiko Hasebe, Yasushi Kurakake
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Abstract
A desired rhythm instrument tone color can be assigned to a pad type performance operator. A desired type of repeated-tone mode, e.g., roll, flam or echo, can be selected by a switch operation or other suitable means. Upon operation of the performance operator, repeated tones having a rhythm instrument tone color assigned to the performance operator are generated with a stroke pattern having a characteristic peculiar to the tone color.
Claims10
An electronic musical instrument comprising:
- a plurality of performance operators;
- memory means storing stroke pattern information in correspondence to plural rhythm instrument tone colors, each of said performance operators being assigned to one of the plural rhythm instrument tone colors;
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- tone signal generation means responsive to operation of any of said performance operators, for reading from said memory means stroke pattern information corresponding to a tone color assigned to the any of said performance operators and generating a tone signal having the tone color assigned to the any of said performance operators with a stroke pattern corresponding to the read out stroke pattern information.
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