Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Tatsuya Iijima

Takashi Matsuda

Hiroshi Morokuma

An electronic musical instrument can execute a musical performance with two timbres mixed together by operating a single key, for example. Of the two timbres, a master timbre is set in normal mode and is stored in a first memory, while a slave timbre is selected in tone mix mode and is stored in a second memory. Each timbre can be altered as desired. To alter the master timbre, timbre switches are operated after the mode is temporarily changed to normal mode. To alter the slave timbre, the timbre switches are operated in tone mix mode. When the tone mix mode is set, this electronic musical instrument can permit a player to easily alter tone parameters such as the volume, pitch and attack delay time of each timbre.

Timbre setting device for an electronic musical instrument

Initial touch data or after touch data is obtained by operating a play input unit, such as keys or strings. A musical tone whose timbre or volume changes by the touch data is obtained. A tone generator has a plurality of sound source lines. Desired waveform data is selected by the touch data for each line. Only one type of the selected waveform data that is segmented at a touch split point is outputted for each line. The musical tone may be detuned by finely staggering the reference frequency, for each line. An envelope waveform may be applied to the musical tone for each line.

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Tatsuya Iijima