Yamaha Corporation

Satoshi Miyata

Masao Kondo

Shinichi Ito

Yasunao Abe

An automatic accompaniment apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing accompaniment style data including basic accompaniment data for automatic accompaniment and replacement accompaniment data to be reproduced in place of the basic accompaniment data; and a reproducing unit for reading the stored accompaniment style data and reproducing the read accompaniment style data, the reproducing unit reproducing the read accompaniment style data by replacing a portion thereof with the replacement accompaniment data. The automatic accompaniment apparatus can generate derivative accompaniment style data from original accompaniment data with ease.

Automatic accompaniment apparatus and a storage device storing a program for operating the same

While a normal tone of a designated pitch is being generated in response to key depression or other performance operation on a keyboard or other performance operation device, the tone is controlled in response to manipulation of a pedal or other auxiliary performance operator. Namely, once the auxiliary performance operator is manipulated during generation or sounding of the normal tone, generation of an additional tone related to the normal tone is initiated. In this case, in correspondence with ON/OFF operation of the auxiliary performance operator, a resonant tone is generated, as the additional tone, which is peculiar to the currently-generated normal tone and which is also peculiar to the ON/OFF operation of the auxiliary performance operator. Particularly, if the normal tone is still being generated when the auxiliary performance operator has been returned from the ON state to the OFF state, a returning tone related to the currently-generated normal tone is generated as another additional tone. The returning tone is a vibration-suppressed tone occurring as a mechanical vibration producing the resonant tone is ceased.

Tone generation apparatus and method for simulating tone effect imparted by damper pedal

An electronic musical instrument having a common memory, a tone generator and a control section. The common memory stores a plurality of musical tone parameters and is accessed by the tone generator and the control section. The tone generator generates a musical tone based on the musical tone parameters stored in the common memory and writes a musical tone parameter indicating the current state of the musical tone being generated by the tone generator, in the common memory. The control section directs the tone generator to generate a musical tone by writing the plurality of musical tone parameters corresponding to the musical tone in the common memory and controls the tone generation by monitoring the current state of the musical tone based on the musical tone parameter stored in the common memory. In the electronic musical instrument, the load of the control section for controlling the tone generator is reduced, and the circuit sizes of the control section and the total memory capacity required for the electronic musical instrument are also reduced.

Electronic musical instrument having a control section memory for

A musical tone generator according to the present invention can simultaneously write parameter data at a plurality of storage positions of a parameter storage apparatus for storing various parameters, which characterize a musical tone to be generated, by only one write command. According to the present invention, software can be simplified, and a write execution time can be shortened.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Satoshi Miyata