US 6,828,497 B2 · Electronic keyboard instrument and tone reproduction method therefor

Abstract

On a casing of an electronic keyboard instrument, there are provided front speakers, rear speakers and upper speakers as non-front speakers, a woofer speaker, and a vibrator. Tone generator section generates tone signals of tone colors corresponding to tones of various musical instruments. Assignment section adjusts, on a tone-color-by-tone-color basis, tone volume allocations, of the generated tone signals, to the speakers and vibrator. Further, the thus-adjusted tone signals are mixed for each of speaker reproduction systems and vibrator drive system, and then the resultant mixed tone signals of the speaker reproduction systems and vibrator drive system are supplied to corresponding ones of the speakers and vibrator.

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Dependent claims

A tone reproduction method for an electronic keyboard instrument comprising the steps of:

providing a front speaker in an orientation facing a human player and a non-front speaker in an orientation not facing the human player;
setting tone volume allocations to be applied to individual ones of said speakers, separately for each of a plurality of tone source channels that generate tone signals of respective tone colors;
assigning the tone signals of individual ones of said tone source channels to respective reproduction systems of said speakers, with the tone volume allocations set by said step of setting;
and
mixing the tone signals of the individual tone source channels, assigned to the reproduction systems, separately for each of the reproduction systems of said speakers and audibly reproducing the mixed tone signals via corresponding ones of said speakers.

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Electronic keyboard instrument and tone reproduction method therefor

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