US 6,313,389 B1Granted

Automatic accompaniment apparatus adjusting sound levels for each part of a plurality of patterns when one pattern is switched to another pattern

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

InventorYoshihisa Adachi

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Abstract

An automatic accompaniment apparatus has a storage unit (53) for storing information on a variation pattern selection state and the mute setup state of each part of each variation, and a control unit (55) for controlling to make each part in a tone generation state or a mute state in accordance with the mute setup state of the part of the selected variation pattern in playing an insert pattern such as an introduction pattern, a fill-in pattern, and an ending pattern. The mute setup state set for the selected variation pattern is applied without change also to the insert pattern, thus preventing the mute setup state of each part from changing at the time of switching between the variation pattern and the insert pattern, and obtaining smooth automatic accompaniment tones.

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Dependent claims

An automatic accompaniment apparatus having a function of making automatic accompaniment of an insert pattern in addition to a basic pattern, comprising:

variation selection means for selecting desired one out of variation patterns to be played and prepared as said basic pattern;
mute setting means for individually setting a mute setup state of each part for each of said variation patterns;
instruction means for giving instructions to play said insert pattern;
control means for controlling to make each part in a tone generation state or a mute state in accordance with the mute setup state of the part of the selected variation pattern in playing said insert pattern;
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wherein the control means interrupts playing the selected variation pattern to play said insert pattern and restarts the playing of the selected variation pattern once playing said insert pattern is complete.

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