Yamaha Corporation

Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yamah Corporation

Takeo Shibukawa

Akira Nakada

Tsutomu Yanase

Tokuji Hayakawa

Motoichi Tamura

Eiichiro Aoki

Junichi Mishima

Satoru Umezawa

Yasuhiro Hinago

Hiroshi Munekawa

Satoshi Suzuki

Masatada Wachi

Akira Miki

Hiroyuki Iwase

Fukushi Kawakami

Yasuo Nagahama

Atsushi Yamaura

Kazuo Haruyama

Masanobu Chihana

Shinichi Sawara

Yasutake Suzuki

Hidemichi Kimura

Ikuro Oshima

Yorihisa Yamaguchi

Satoshi Miyagishima

Tatsuhiro Koike

Hiroyuki Kawai

Fujiyo Mandai

Tatsuya Nonaka

Takashi Maruyama

An electronic musical apparatus Mtransmits apparatus ID information and a common mail page access signal to a server computer SC. The server computer SC receives the signal and apparatus ID information. On the basis of the apparatus ID information, the server computer SC searches a user databaseto identify the mail box of the user of the electronic musical apparatus M. The server computer SC also searches an e-mail databaseto retrieve an e-mail message stored in the identified mail box. The retrieved e-mail message is adjusted in accordance with display capabilities of a display unitof the electronic musical apparatus M. The server computer SC then transmits the retrieved e-mail message to the electronic musical apparatus M. The user of the electronic musical apparatus Mis allowed to easily read e-mail messages on the display unit

Electronic musical apparatus and server computer

An electronic musical apparatus is of a data processing type and is connectable to an external server via a communication network. The apparatus comprises a display screen, item selecting keys arranged around the display screen, and a communication device to connect with the server via the communication network. The apparatus transmits a connection request to a server, receives a list of available service items from the server, displays the list for selection on the display screen, permits the user to select from the list an intended service by operating the item selecting key, transmits a request of the selected service, and receives from the server the service corresponding to the transmitted request.

Electronic musical apparatus displaying network service items for selection and computer program therefor

An electronic musical apparatus comprises an instructing device that instructs establishment of connection to a network via a communication interface, a first time information obtaining device that obtains time information from a first time information provider connected to the network, a second time information obtaining device that obtains time information from a second time information provider connected to the network when the first time information obtaining device cannot obtain the time information, and an executing device that executes a service via the network by using the time information obtained from either one of the first and the second time information providers.

Electronic music apparatus capable of connecting to network

An electronic musical apparatus Mtransmits apparatus ID information and a common page access signal to a server computer SC. The server computer SC receives the signal and apparatus ID information. On the basis of the apparatus ID information, the server computer SC searches a user databaseto identify the model of the electronic musical apparatus M. The server computer SC also retrieves content data of a dedicated page for the identified model from a content data storage section. The retrieved content data is created in accordance with display capabilities of a display unitof the electronic musical apparatus M. The server computer SC then transmits the retrieved content data to the electronic musical apparatus M. As a result, the user of the electronic musical apparatus Mcan view the information contained in the whole dedicated page in colors on the display unitwithout the need for scrolling. Thus, the present invention delivers legible information to various different types of electronic musical apparatuses having a display unit with different display capabilities.

From an external terminal apparatus, an electronic music apparatus acquires, online or offline, environment setting information for setting an environment for connecting the electronic music apparatus to a communication network via given network connecting equipment. The electronic music apparatus stores the acquired environment setting information into a storage section as connection environment information defining an environment for connecting the electronic music apparatus to the communication network via the given network connecting equipment. Connection to the communication network via the network connecting equipment can be established in accordance with the stored connection environment information.

Technique for simplifying setting of network connection environment for electronic music apparatus

An electronic musical apparatus in which operators for changing pages on a musical instrument function-related screen and history pages on a Web screen are shared, so that those pages can be changed using similar operating systems to improve the userfriendliness. A display controlleris operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display, to change the history pages of the Web screen forward in terms of time in response to operation of a Next switch, and the display controlleris operable when the Web screen is displayed by the display, to change the history pages of the Web screen backward in terms of time in response to operation of a Back switch

Electronic musical apparatus and program for controlling the same

As an electronic tone is generated in response to performing operation, the electronic tone is picked up by microphones corresponding to left and right channels, and picked-up sound signals thus generated by the microphones are then subjected to signal processing, such as reverberation impartment utilizing acoustic conditions of the interior of a room. Picked-up sound signals having undergone such signal processing are audibly reproduced via rear speakers. Then, once an automatic adjustment instruction is given from a user, measuring tones are reproduced stereophonically, and contents of the signal processing of the individual channels are adjusted on the basis of measured results of picked-up sound signals generated by the microphones picking up the reproduced measuring tones.

Electronic tone generating apparatus and signal-processing-characteristic adjusting method

This invention provides players with easy identification of notes in a musical score and correspondences between performance operators and notes in a musical score. An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard having a plurality of keys, key-depression indicators each of which corresponds to each key, and a color monitor . A microcomputer embedded in the electronic musical instrument reads out performance data stored in memory such as RAM in sequence as time goes on, and lights the key-depression indicators to indicate keys to be depressed according to the performance data. The microcomputer also displays a musical score on the color monitor , using the performance data. Additionally, the microcomputer assigns a different color to each note name by using a note number in performance data, so that note colors used for the musical score display on the color monitor and light colors lighted by the key-depression indicators are controlled to correspond by note names.

Musical score displaying apparatus and method

In a fingering information analyzer, tone pitch information indicative of each tone pitch of a series of musical notes supplied from a flexible disc or a performance information memory is analyzed to produce fingering information indicative of a performance finger for each of the musical notes. The fingering information is mixed with the tone pitch information and memorized in a fingering memory. When the fingering information is reproduced, a performance finger for each of the musical notes is determined in accordance with a changing direction or variation width of the tone pitch information continual in time series and a changing condition of white and black keys based on the tone pitch information. The tone pitch information and fingering information memorized in the fingering memory is read out in accordance with progression of a musical tune and adapted for performance of the keys on a keyboard and for indication of the performance finger.

Fingering information analyzer, electronic musical instrument including fingering information analysis and method therefore

In addition to a general transposition setting device for setting a transposition for an entire musical instrument, there is provide an automatic-performance transposition setting device for optionally setting a transposition value for automatic performance. Automatic performance data is transposed in accordance with the transposition value set by the automatic-performance transposition setting device and a visual performance guide display based on the transposed automatic performance data is provided via a key display as an automatic performance process is advanced on a desired music piece. Human player depresses keys in accordance with the visual performance guide display so that tones corresponding to the depressed keys are generated. The transposition set via the automatic-performance transposition setting device does not act on the tones manually performed by the player's key depression operation, and only the transposition set via the general transposition setting device becomes effective on such manually-performed tones.

Apparatus for and method of providing a performance guide display to assist in a manual performance of an electronic musical apparatus in a selected musical key

Settings of a table as to correspondence between performance parts and tracks can be changed as desired through operation by a user. If the settings of the table have been changed when a visual performance guide is to be provided for a given performance part, the changed settings are automatically referred to so that performance data of a particular track related with the given performance part is selected and used for the performance guide. Namely, whenever the settings of the table are changed, corresponding relationship between tracks and performance parts can be newly set in an automatic fashion, so that it is possible to eliminate a need for a user to repeat a same cumbersome changing operation each time an automatic performance is to be initiated.

Apparatus for and method of setting correspondence between performance parts and tracks

Fingering information analyzer and electronic musical instrument with

A performance setting data selecting apparatus including: a data storing unit for storing a plurality set of performance setting data; a table for storing a correspondence between each tune name of the plurality of tunes and each set of the performance setting data stored in the data storing unit suitable for playing a tune having the associated tune name; a designating unit for designating a tune name; and a unit for reading the performance setting data corresponding to the tune name designated by the designating unit from the data storing unit by referring to the table and setting the read performance setting data.

Performance setting data selecting apparatus

A music apparatus is provided with a memory device that stores waveform data, and a sound device that has a plurality of tone generating channels, each of which is tuned in normal setting effective to process the waveform data retrieved from the memory device so as to generate a musical sound. An input device is placed in either of an active state for inputting external waveform data and an inactive state where the external waveform data is not inputted. A detector device is provided to produces a detection signal when the input device switches between the active state and the inactive state. A control device responds to the detection signal when the input device switches to the active state for controlling the sound device to change at least one of the tone generating channels from the normal setting to alternative setting effective to admit and process the external waveform data inputted from the input device so as to generate an additional sound so that the sound device can generate mixture of the musical sound and the additional sound. Otherwise, the control device responds to the detection signal when the input device switches to the inactive state for controlling the sound device to restore that one tone generating channel from the alternative setting to the normal setting so that the sound device generates the musical sound alone.

Wave table sound source capable of processing external waveform

Indicators are provided in corresponding relations to individual keyboard keys. For each of plural phrases of a given music piece, information is supplied that represents at least the highest-pitch note to the lowest note in the phrase. During performance of the music piece and on the basis of the supplied information, the indicators, for each phrase, indicates all notes within a range from the highest-pitch note to the lowest note of the phrase. Thus, the player can easily position his hands over accurate keys and thereby can comfortably carry out performance operations for each phrase. Notes to be performed in each phrase after a first note corresponding to predetermined performance timing in the phrase may be indicated in different manners (for example, by varying degrees of brightness) depending on performance timing differences, from the first note performance timing, of the notes. Alternatively, individual notes of each phrase may be sequentially indicated quickly in advance of the actual phrase performance. These modifications allow the player to intuitively recognize the order of performance, Further, by indicating at least one of the current and next notes in a manner different from other notes, it is advantageously shown very visibly which notes should be performed now and next.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Takeo Shibukawa