Yamaha Corporation

Yasushi Sakurai

Yasushi Kurakake

Kotaro Mizuno

Thomas Koritke

A plurality of play style dependence tone colors belonging to one kind of musical instrument tone color but being different from one another in terms of play styles are respectively assigned to different values of velocity and note number. For example, play style dependence tone colors such as open soft and open middle of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C2 to B5, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different velocity values. Play style dependence tone colors such as strumming and fret noise of a steel guitar are assigned to tone pitch ranges C6 to G8, and the play style dependence tone colors are respectively assigned to different note number values. By setting the note number and velocity values in note-on event data in various ways, musical tone signals of various play style dependence tone colors are generated even if the program change and bank select data are not changed. This provides shorter processing time needed for switching among tone colors of different play styles, and also the work of editing the performance data or the like including the switching of the tone colors can be performed easily and accurately.

Musical tone generating apparatus and musical tone generating computer program

An electronic musical instrument is disclosed wherein the musical tone parameter such as the tone volume, tone color, acoustic reverberation, pan-pot and the like can be varied over time. The invention provides an electronic musical instrument including an operational device, a memory, a readout section, a control section and a tone generator. The operational device can be implemented in a stick type operator for example. The operational device generates operational data which vary over time in response to operations applied thereto. The operational data generated by operational device are consecutively stored in the memory. The readout section can be implemented in a CPU for example and consecutively reads out the operational data from the memory. The control section can be implemented in a CPU for example and generates a musical tone parameter which varies over time on the basis of data consecutively read out from the memory. The tone generator generates musical tones on the basis of a musical tone parameter. In this electronic musical instrument, the musical tone parameter of generated musical tones can be continuously varied over time in response to the operational data which are consecutively read out from the memory.

Electronic musical instrument for controlling musical tone with

An instrument for storing musical playing data includes tone color assignment switch for assigning each of the designated tone colors to each of the recording tracks and record control device for recording the musical playing data into the recording tracks simultaneously with the assigned tone color thereto (DUAL mode). Also the record control device can be a device for recording the musical playing data into the recording track, with the assigned tone color thereto, to which the tone range, for example the left side tone range or the right side tone range of a keyboard, including the tone pitch of the musical playing data is preliminarily assigned (SPLIT mode). As a plurality of recording tracks are used in recording with the both modes, it allows a player to edit the data easily.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Yasushi Sakurai