US 7,888,576 B2Granted

Ensemble system

AssigneeYamaha Corporation

InventorsSatoshi Usa, Tomomitsu Urai

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Abstract

An ensemble system enabling even performer unskilled in playing a musical instrument to easily grasp the difference in tempo from the performance of the facilitator. The circle corresponding to the performance terminal “Facilitator” is indicated fixedly on the center line of the vertical lines. The circle corresponding to the performance terminal (for example, piano (1)) of each user moves horizontally correspondingly to the difference from the performance terminal “Facilitator”. If the press of a key of performance terminal lags behind that of the performance terminal “Facilitator” by one bar, the circle moves left onto the vertical line next to the vertical center line. If the press of a key of the performance terminal lags behind that of the performance terminal “Facilitator” by half the bar (two beats), the circle moves left by half the interval between the vertical lines from the vertical center line. If the press of a key of the performance terminal leads that of the performance terminal “Facilitator”, the circle moves right (FIG. 7).

Claims8

Dependent claims

An ensemble system comprising:

a plurality of performance terminals each having at least one performance operator unit for performance operation by a user;
at least one tone generator;
and
a controller connected to the plurality of performance terminals and the at least one tone generator to control each of the performance terminals,
wherein the controller includes:
a storage device that stores music data for performance including a plurality of performance parts;
an operation unit that gives instructions to start and complete a performance;
a performance control unit that assigns the plurality of performance parts to respective ones of the plurality of performance terminals, reads out the performance part assigned to each of the performance terminals in accordance with a way in which the performance operator unit of the respective performance terminal is operated, and outputs performance data representing the read-out performance part to the tone generator;
a deviation detecting unit that detects, for each of the performance terminals, a deviation between the progression of the performance part read out from a guiding performance terminal, which is assigned from one of the plurality of performance terminals in accordance with a way in which the performance operator unit of the guiding performance terminal is operated and the progression of the performance part read out from each of other performance terminals in accordance with a way in which the performance operator unit of the each of the other performance terminals is operated;
and
a display unit that displays the deviation between the progression of the performance part read out from the guiding performance terminal and the progression of the performance part read out from each of the other performance terminals.

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Facts

Application: 12/088,430Filed 24 Jul 2006
Priority: JP 2005-28105928 Sep 2005
Published: US 2009/0151545 A118 Jun 2009
Granted: 15 Feb 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G10H 1/0066
Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system: using a MIDI interface
G10H 1/0008
Details of electrophonic musical instruments: associated control or indicating means
G10H 2240/175
Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic…:…
G10H 2240/325
Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments: synchronizing two or more…