Automatic performance apparatus
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorKazuhisa Ueki
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Abstract
An automatic performance apparatus comprises a storage device that stores performance data and accompaniment data having a plurality of sections, a detector that detects a specific note in the performance data, a reproduction device that simultaneously reproduces the performance data and the accompaniment pattern data, and a controller that controls the reproduction device to change the section at a point of the detected specific note. A musical performance that is rich in variations can be performed easily with simple automatic performance data.
Claims6
An automatic performance apparatus comprising:
- a storage device that stores automatic performance data and accompaniment pattern data having a plurality of sections;
- a detector that detects a specific note in the automatic performance data;
- a reproduction device that simultaneously reproduces the automatic performance data supplied from the storage device and a section of the accompaniment pattern data;
- and
- a controller that controls the reproduction device to switch reproduction of the section of the accompaniment pattern data to another section of the accompaniment pattern data when a reproduction point of the automatic performance data by said reproduction device reaches a point corresponding to the detected specific note.
An automatic performance apparatus comprising:
- a storage device that stores performance data and accompaniment pattern data having a plurality of sections;
- a detector that detects a specific note in the performance data;
- a reproduction device that simultaneously reproduces the performance data and the accompaniment pattern data;
- and
- a controller that controls the reproduction device to change the section at a point of the detected specific note,
- wherein the detector further detects a blank section of the performance data, and
- wherein the controller further controls the reproduction device to reproduce a first section for the detected blank section.
A computer-readable medium storing an automatic performance program comprising the instructions for:
- reading automatic performance data and accompaniment pattern data having a plurality of sections from a storage device;
- detecting a specific note in the automatic performance data;
- simultaneously reproducing the automatic performance data supplied from the storage device and a section of the accompaniment pattern data;
- and
- controlling the reproduction device to switch reproduction of the section of the accompaniment pattern data to another section of the accompaniment pattern data when a reproduction point of the automatic performance data by said reproduction device reaches a point corresponding to the detected specific note.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.