Yamaha Corporation

Akemi Kubita

Hiroyuki Torimura

To assist a human player in performing a plurality of foot operators (pedal keys) operable with a human player's foot, a foot operator image indicative of the foot operators is displayed on a display screen. Model performance data including at least information indicative of a rhythm and a pitch of a foot performance part to be performed by use of the foot operators is acquired, and a particular foot operator corresponding to the pitch of the foot performance part included in the acquired model performance data is visually designated. At the same time, based on rhythm information for the foot performance part, a rhythm of a sound corresponding to the particular foot operator is presented. The presentation of the rhythm is performed by presenting a sound generation timing and a time length of the sound, and a suitable marker indicative of a performance progression may be additionally displayed.

Performance assistance apparatus and method

To assist a human player in performing a plurality of foot operators (pedal keys) operable with a human player's foot, a foot operator image indicative of the foot operator group is displayed on a display screen. Chord information of a chord to be performed is acquired, and a pitch of a bass note corresponding to the chord indicated by the acquired chord information is identified. A particular foot operator corresponding to the identified pitch of the bass note is visually designated on the foot operator image displayed on the display screen. An object indicative of a chord name is displayed on the same display screen. Objects indicative of one or more chord names corresponding to a chord progression over a plurality of measures is displayed. A display object highlighting one object indicative of a particular chord name is added in accordance with a progression of a performance.

A storage device stores a plurality of sets of tone setting information, each of the sets of tone setting information including one or more tone setting parameters. The storage device also stores, for each of the sets of tone setting information, a link ID identifying a link set in association with the set of tone setting information. Processing is performed to cause, based on the link IDs, settings of the tone setting parameters to match between a plurality of sets of the tone setting information having a same link ID. A selected set of the tone setting information is editable in accordance with a user operation. In accordance with the editing, processing is performed to cause a setting of any one of the tone setting parameters in one or more other sets of the tone setting information, having a same link ID as the link ID associated with the edited set of the tone setting information, to match a setting of the tone setting parameter in the edited set of the tone setting information.

Setting and editing tone setting information via link

There is provided an electronic musical apparatus that is capable of providing listenable performance by using data reflecting the intention of the user among usable data, as well as a program for electronic music. A tone generator device is capable of sounding musical tones based on data representing preset musical tone control information or user musical tone control information. When data representing musical tone control information that is inputted is data representing user musical tone control information incapable of being sounded by a tone generator circuit and the data representing the user musical tone control information includes data representing original preset musical tone control information as a basis of the user musical tone control information, a CPU sends the data representing the original preset musical tone control information as an alternative to the data representing the user musical tone control information to the tone generator circuit and causes the tone generator circuit to sound musical tones based on the original preset musical tone control information.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Akemi Kubita