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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2021
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho, Hamamatsu, JP;
Seiji Okamoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Tetsuya Hirano, Hamamatsu, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWAI GAKKI SEISAKUSHO, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A musical tone generating device includes: a nonvolatile storage device that stores musical tone waveform data; a volatile storage device; and a control means that, when a power supply is turned on, performs control to transfer musical tone waveform data to the volatile storage device from the nonvolatile storage device, in the case where an instruction to reproduce a musical tone is given, the control means to read musical tone waveform data from the volatile storage device, and in the case where an error in the read musical tone waveform data is detected, the control means to perform control to overwrite musical tone waveform data obtained by correcting the musical tone waveform data including the detected error to the volatile storage device or transfer normal musical tone waveform data corresponding to the musical tone waveform data including the detected error to the volatile storage device from the nonvolatile storage device.