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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1987
Tetsuo Nishimoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A parameter setting system for an electronic musical instrument has a predetermined number of panel switches to which desired parameters can be selectively assigned by the player. The system comprises a RAM having a parameter area in which a group of parameters determining characteristics of a tone are stored, the number of parameters being greater than the number of the panel switches. The RAM also has an identification-number area for storing identification numbers of those parameters which are assigned respectively to the panel switches. When a reassignment switch is depressed with an entry switch, the system is brought into a reassignment mode. In this condition, the player selects a desired one of the parameters using up and down switches for changing the identification number and a display unit for displaying the identification number. The player then depresses one of the panel switches to which the selected parameter is to be assigned, whereupon the displayed identification number is stored into the identification-number area of the RAM at a position corresponding to the depressed panel switch.