Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

Kawai Musical Inst. Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Kawai Muscial Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Seiji Okamoto

Yutaka Washiyama

Tetsuya Hirano

Katsushi Ishii

Takashi Suzuki

Sayoko Hirano

Toshiya Yoshida

A musical tone generating device includes: a nonvolatile storage device that stores musical tone waveform data; a volatile storage device; and a control means that, when a power supply is turned on, performs control to transfer musical tone waveform data to the volatile storage device from the nonvolatile storage device, in the case where an instruction to reproduce a musical tone is given, the control means to read musical tone waveform data from the volatile storage device, and in the case where an error in the read musical tone waveform data is detected, the control means to perform control to overwrite musical tone waveform data obtained by correcting the musical tone waveform data including the detected error to the volatile storage device or transfer normal musical tone waveform data corresponding to the musical tone waveform data including the detected error to the volatile storage device from the nonvolatile storage device.

Musical tone generating device and control method of musical tone generating device

A digital signal processing device includes: a delay means that delays audio data in units of sampling periods; and a control means that writes audio data to a first buffer memory one word at a time in sequence at a sampling period, performs control to burst transfer burst length audio data to a DRAM from the first buffer memory, performs control to burst transfer the burst length audio data to a second buffer memory from the DRAM, and outputs audio data to the delay means from the second buffer memory one word at a time in sequence at the sampling period, in which a delay time of audio data output by the delay means is determined by a combination of a delay time of multiple sampling period units depending on a burst length of the DRAM and a delay time of a sampling period unit of the delay means.

Digital signal processing device and control method of digital signal processing device

A digital signal processing device includes a control unit that performs control to alternately burst transfer burst length audio data in a first half area of a first buffer memory and burst length audio data in a second half area of the first buffer memory to a DRAM, in which the control unit performs control to burst transfer the burst length audio data in the first half area of the first buffer memory to the DRAM while writing audio data one word at a time to the second half area of the first buffer memory in sequence and performs control to burst transfer the burst length audio data in the second half area of the first buffer memory to the DRAM while writing audio data one word at a time to the first half area of the first buffer memory in sequence.

When a key depression speed and a key release speed of a key is to be detected based on a value of a counter () which accumulates a value every time the key passes through key switches (SW, SW), a number of digits of data indicating the key depression speed, a unit of the data being a bit and a number of digits of data indicating the key release speed, a unit of the data being a bit, are made the same.

Electronic keyboard instrument

Resonance is realized at a desired plurality of tone pitches even after the musical tone signals of a plurality of channels have been synthesized; synthesized musical tone signals are successively delayed, the musical tone signals that are successively delayed are weighted, synthesized and output; the delayed, weighted, synthesized and outputted musical tone signals are fed back, and a series of successive delays, weights, synthesizes and outputs by the feed back are repeated and thus resonance characteristics is imparted; the amount of weighting the musical tone signals successively delayed is determined based upon a relationship among the delay feedback period, the period of sampling the generated musical tone signals and the tone pitch period of the resonance sound imparted with resonance characteristics, and a frequency of the resonance characteristics are determined; Therefore, the resonance characteristics are added at a desired tone pitch after the plurality of musical tone signals are synthesized into one. Accordingly, the resonance processing is conducted very simply.

Resonance apparatus, resonance method and computer program for resonance processing

Harmonic signals of frequencies have a relation fn=f1*n* .sqroot.1+C*n.sup.2 /.sqroot.1+C where C is a constant and n is a harmonic number relative to the fundamental frequency f1, are generated and synthesized to produce a modified sound that can be heard comfortably by human ears.

Non-consonance generating device and non-consonance generating method

Only in a transient band of a filter, substantially all frequency bands of the musical tone waveform are subjected to filter processing. Due to this, the drawback that the amount of change of the frequency characteristic of the musical tone gradually changes as a whole from a fundamental wave toward a harmonics and only one part of the frequency characteristic of the musical tone changes is eliminated. Also, the density of frequency components of the frequency band of the musical tone waveform does not change, the related frequency band is shifted in frequency, subjected to filter processing, and further shifted to a frequency in accordance with the musical tone pitch. Due to this, a specific range of the filter characteristic is selected, and the musical tone is subjected to the filter control only within this range. Then, after the filter processing, the musical tone is shifted in frequency in accordance with the musical tone pitch, and therefore the musical tone is subjected to the filter processing irrespective of the musical tone pitch. Further, the density of the frequency components of the frequency band of the musical tone waveform does not change and the related frequency band is shifted in frequency. Due to this, a harmonics ratio of the frequency components of the frequency band changes, a timbre (musical tone quality) finely changes, and a control on the musical tone which has not conventionally existed is achieved. Also, gains of boundary portions of frequency bands of a plurality of partial musical tone waveforms subjected to the filter processing are matched. Due to this, the gains of the boundary portions of the frequency bands of the partial musical tone waveforms are matched, and a well balanced synthesized musical tone is output.

Musical tone control apparatus for filter processing a musical tone

Ratios of frequencies of frequency components of formant waveform signals are changed, and consonance of frequency components of a musical tone is controlled. Moreover, amplitudes, frequencies or numbers of formants are controlled depending upon the musical factors, making rich the contents for changing the musical tones.

Apparatus for and method of generating musical tones

An electronic musical instrument produces musical tones based on waveform data, while providing smooth changes between different timbres and at the same time avoiding reduction in the efficiency of waveform compression. The timbre change is carried out in an interpolation interval, the magnitude of which varies in accordance with the magnitude of the timbre change. The data necessary to establish the interpolation interval may be stored and read out of a memory or may be determined by interpolation according to a linear function.

Waveform read-out system for an electronic musical instrument

In an electronic instrument, sound waveform is compressed for efficient storage, while quick response from the depressing of keys till the sounding is assured. The electronic instrument is provided with the waveform ROM for storing the waveform of the start of sounding without compressing. The subsequent waveform is compressed and stored in the waveform ROM. The sound source system having a waveform reproducing portion is also provided for developing the compressed stored waveform. The electronic instrument is further provided with a waveform RAM for temporarily storing the waveform developed by the waveform reproducing portion. When the keys of the electronic instrument are depressed, sounds are generated at first based on the uncompressed waveform data, and the compressed waveform data is concurrently developed in the waveform RAM. After all the uncompressed waveform data is read from the waveform ROM, sounds are subsequently generated based on the waveform data developed by the waveform RAM. The data used immediately after the keys are depressed is not compressed, thereby assuring quick response to the depressing of keys.

Electronic instrument for generating sounds based on the compressed

An electronic sound processing system comprises a sound waveform looping apparatus which cuts out a portion of an input sound waveform and conducts a looping process for a predetermined cycle of the portion of the waveform. The sound waveform looping process comprises a discrete Fourier transformer for applying a discrete Fourier transform to the input sound waveform, a frequency band remover for removing a predetermined frequency band of the discrete Fourier transformed sound waveform, an inverse discrete Fourier transformer for applying an inverse discrete Fourier transform to the sound waveform from which the predetermined frequency band has been removed, and a looping processor for looping a predetermined cycle of the inverse discrete Fourier transformed sound waveform. By executing the sound waveform looping process, the electronic sound processing system can obtain smooth looped waveforms with easy processes and simple equipment.

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