Yamaha Corporation

Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha

Susumu Kawashima

Shigeru Yamada

Masao Kondo

Yasuji Uchiyama

Makoto Kaneko

Nobuhiro Nambu

Takashi Kuramochi

Takuji Kumazawa

Toru Itayama

A music data providing apparatus comprises: a storage device that stores music data in a musical performance data event format; a receiver that receives a request for providing music data and a setting parameter from a user via a network; a converter that, in accordance with the received request and setting parameter, reads the music data in a musical performance data event format from the storage device and converts the read music data into music data in an audio data format; and a transmitter that transmits the converted music data in an audio data format to the user. Music data in various data format can be provided.

Music data providing apparatus, music data reception apparatus and program

There are provided tone material editing apparatus and program. The tone material editing apparatus is connected to a tone material providing apparatus that provides tone material data. Video data stored in the tone material editing apparatus is reproduced. The tone material providing apparatus is instructed to stream-distribute tone material data to be reproduced in synchronism with the reproduced video data. The tone material data stream-distributed from the tone material providing apparatus is stream-reproduced in synchronism with the reproduced video data.

Tone material editing apparatus and tone material editing program

An automatic performance data editing device has a memory device, an Input device and control device. The memory device stores performance data used for carrying out. The performance data includes control data which control the automatic performance. The input device can provide a control data while carrying out the automatic performance. The control device edits the performance data stored in the memory device in such a manner that, when a control data is provided by the panel switches, a control data which has been read out from the memory device to control the automatic performance is updated by the provided control data.

Device for editing automatic performance data in response to inputted

This electronic musical instrument, having several sound sources, can generate one tone several times according to tone generation one operation, and generate chord. It can control the tone generation level and tone generation timing based on the instruction input and tempo clock.

Electronic musical instrument with tone generation control

Desired tones are selected by a key depression operation or the like operation of an electronic musical instrument and these selected tones are assigned to one of pad type performance operators. When this performance operator has been operated, the tones which have been assigned thereto are sounded simultaneously or sequentially. In assigning desired tones to the performance operator, setting operators for setting tone volume, effects etc. may be set at desired set state and set information representing this set state may be stored. In this case, tone signals corresponding to tones which have been assigned to the performance operator are generated and the stored set information is read out and a control such as a tone control and effect imparting control is performed in accordance with the set information. In assigning a desired tone to the performance operator, assigning of a tone which has been selected by a key depression operation or the like to the performance operator may be realized when the performance operator has been turned from an on state to an off state. By this arrangement, selective change of a tone to be assigned can be made freely even after turning on of the performance operator if it is before the performance operator is turned off.

Electronic musical instrument capable of assigning desired tones to a

Header control data for setting various characteristics of an automatic performance tone such as tone color, tone volume, tempo, effect and the like are stored in a header portion of a memory. The header control data are loaded into a buffer register, and various characteristics of an automatic performance tone to be generated are established on the basis of the header control data stored in the buffer register. In response to activation of a changing operator, the header control data in the buffer register are changed and a hence various characteristics of the automatic performance tone to be generated are changed. When the data in the buffer register is changed during an automatic performance, the header control data stored in the memory is changed in correspondence to the change. Therefore, during an automatic performance, various characteristics of the automatic performance tone can freely be changed while listening to the generated automatic performance tone, and also the header control data stored into the header portion of the memory can be automatically rewritten in correspondence to such change.

Automatic performance device

A melody supplement control apparatus is disclosed wherein supplementary tones for melody tones are produced according to predetermined rules, and the degree of the addition of the aforesaid supplementary tones to the aforesaid melody tones is determined based on the pitch of the said supplementary tones.

Melody supplement control apparatus

A breath controller for musical instruments includes a mouth piece for blowing the air into an air chamber. Blowing the air makes an air pressure increase in the air chamber, thus an elastic member is displaced corresponding to the air pressure. At the same time, the displacement of a reflection surface changes an amount of light to reflect an emitted light from a light-emitting element to a light-receiving element. The light-receiving element then controls a signal corresponding to the amount of light, thus making the signal change to a musical tone signal.

Breath controller for musical instruments

An electronic musical instrument which simulates an acoustic wind instrument and the like is designed to generate a musical tone having a desirable tone pitch in response to breath pressure applied thereto by a performer. Preferably, the electronic musical instrument has a shape like the wind instrument, so that the breath pressure includes breath blowing pressure and breath sucking pressure. For example, generation of the musical tone is controlled in response to the breath blowing pressure, while the predetermined musical parameter such as the tone color, accompaniment and rhythm is controlled in response to the breath sucking pressure.

Electronic musical instrument for simulating a wind instrument

The tonality of scale of electronic musical instrument is set by setting a standard sound pitch (sound pitch of 'do'). When a tone color is selected, this setting is automatically performed according to this tone color. In the case when the tone color is similar to that of natural musical instrument, setting is executed so that the tonality of pertinent musical instrument is set.

Electronic musical instrument with selection of standard sound pitch of

There are provided a device for sampling a tone signal applied from outside, a built-in tone source, responsive to tone pitch information, a tone signal having tone pitch corresponding to the tone pitch of the tone pitch information, a memory capable of both writing and reading for storing waveform sampled data and a control circuit for selectively writing a tone signal sampled or a tone signal generated from the built-in tone source. The waveform sampled data in the memory is read out in accordance with designated tone pitch. A circuit is provided which, when input of a tone signal sampled has not been detected for a predetermined period, causes a tone signal generated from the built-in tone source and written in the memory. There is also provided a circuit which generates a tone of a reference pitch when a predetermined switch operation has been made with the tuning operation. There is also provided a circuit for selecting whether pitch adjustment should be made in both a sample tone source having a memory storing a tone signal sampled and the built-in tone source or the pitch adjustment should be made only in the sampled tone source. There are provided a circuit for generating pattern data designating tone sounding timing and tone pitch in accordance with a rhythm pattern and a circuit for performing selection as is whether the sampled tone source be driven in accordance with this pattern data or in accordance with a key depression.

Tone signal generation device having a sampling function

A tone signal applied from outside is sampled by a tone sampling device and the sampled waveshape data is written into a memory. During this writing operation and in parallel with the writing operation, a zero crossing point of the waveshape in terms of the sample data of the tone signal is detected. A final address detection circuit stores, each time a zero cross has been detected, a write address of the waveshape sample data with respect to the memory. Address data which is stored in the final address detection circuit when the writing of the waveshape sample data in the memory has been completed is detected as a final address of the sampled waveshape data. The waveshape data in the memory is read out either in a forward direction in a reverse direction using this final address as a start point or an end point and a tone signal corresponding to the sampled waveshape data is sounded. Such address constituting the start point or end point of reading, i.e., a reference address, can be adjusted by a reference address adjuster. It is also possible, upon completion of the writing into the memory, to read out waveshape data immediately from the memory thereby to immediately and automatically sound the sampled waveshape data which has just been written into the memory.

Tone signal generation device having a tone sampling function

An electronic musical instrument comprises: a keyboard circuit for generating a pitch data signal which designates the note name of a musical tone to be produced; a speech signal generator for generating a speech signal which tells in human voice the name of the designated musical tone; multiplexed processing circuit for time-divisionally processing the pitch data signal and the speech signal; and sound signal producing circuit for producing the musical tone and the human voice in accordance with the processed output from the multipled processing circuit. Thus the instrument speaks the names of the tones as it produces the musical tones.

Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is of a type in which tones are produced by a limited number of tone production channels which are efficiently used for a larger number of tones utilizing channel assignment technology. Normally, three of the channels are exclusively occupied for production of three tones to constitute a triad chord. But at time a bass tone is to be produced, the specific one of the three channels is compulsively used for production of the bass tone, giving up exclusivity for production of the chord tone. This eliminates the need of providing an additional channel for the bass tone production.

Electronic musical instrument producing bass and chord tones utilizing

An electronic musical instrument is of a type in which tones are produced by a limited number of tone production channels which are efficiently used for a large number of tones utilizing channel assignment technology. A plurality of tones to constitute a chord are normally produced simultaneously by using plural channels, but when a duet mode is selected to automatically add a duet note to a melody note, the chord constituent tones are produced in succession as a broken chord utilizing only a single channel, thus leaving another channel available for production of the duet note. This eliminates the need to provide an additional tone production channel for the duet note.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Susumu Kawashima