Yamaha Corporation

Yasuyoshi Nakajima

Masahiro Koyama

Tetsuo Nishimoto

A singing sound-synthesizing apparatus sequentially synthesizes vocal sounds based on singing data including lyric data of a lyric formed of a plurality of phonemes and sounding data designating a sounding time period over which the lyric data is sounded. A designating device designates a predetermined voiced phoneme from the plurality of phonemes of the lyric data. A sounding control device carries out sounding control such that sounding of the predetermined voiced phoneme designated by the designating device is started within the sounding time period designated for the plurality of phonemes by the sounding data and continued until the sounding time period designated for the plurality of phonemes elapses. In another form, ones of phoneme parameter sets and ones of coarticulation parameter sets corresponding to signing data are read from a phoneme data storing the phoneme parameter sets and the coarticulation parameter sets. A control signal is selectively supplied to at least one of a formant-synthesizing tone generator device that synthesizes formants of phonemes to be sounded to generate vocal sounds and a PCM tone generator device that generates vocal sounds by pulse code modulation, the PCM tone generator device having a waveform memory storing waveforms of unvoiced consonants, based on the corresponding ones of the phoneme parameter sets and the corresponding ones of the coarticulation parameter sets read from the phoneme data base to cause the at least one of the formant-synthesizing tone generator device and the PCM tone generator device to generate a vocal sound.

Singing sound-synthesizing apparatus and method

A plurality of digital signal processors are provided in parallel relation to each other, and a series of operations for desired sound signal synthesis or processing is divided into a plurality of operation groups to be allocated to the signal processors. First and second buses are connected to each of the signal processors so that parameters necessary for the operations are distributively supplied to the signal processors via the first bus and the operation result of each of the signal processors is transferred to another digital signal processor or an output port via the second bus. One digital signal processor receives the output data from another digital signal processor via the second bus so as to perform a predetermined operation using the received data. The desired sound signal processing is thus executed by combinations of the operations performed by such signal processors. Where sound signal processing is executed in a plurality of channels on a time-divisional basis, the time-divisional channel timing of each digital signal processor is set independently of that of other digital signal processors. By setting synchronized tone generation designating data for each channel, synchronized tone generation is controllably performed in selected channels.

Digital signal processing device for sound signal processing

The electronic musical instrument has synthesis means operative according to given tone control parameters for effecting a musical tone synthesis to generate a musical tone. Register means is provided for registering first data of a lower class and second data of an upper class in hierarchical data structure so as to constitute the tone control parameters. The first data is effective, at least, to define a timbre of a musical tone to be generated. The second data designates a plurality of the first data, effective to control the musical tone synthesis according to different timbres which are defined by the plurality of the first data. Edit means is provided for revising selectively the registered first data. Display means is provided for selectively indicating the second data which is associated to the first data to be revised in order for management of the hierarchical data structure.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Yasuyoshi Nakajima