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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
May. 28, 2001
Takahiro Kawashima, Hamamatsu, JP;
Takahiro Kawashima, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a musical composition-reproducing device and a musical composition-reproducing method that make it possible to make the most of many sounding channels and are capable of imparting an effect to musical tones without providing a special effect circuit. Musical composition data read from a musical composition data file FL is read out as data of a trackcomprised of 4 channels, and is also copied and read out as data of a track, a trackand a track. Delay times of delaying means Dto Dand attenuations of attenuating means Gto Gare determined as being values tto tand gto g, respectively, in accordance with effect parameter information. A sequencer SQ reproduces three effect sounding sequence data in the tracksto, which is delayed by the delay times tto tand attenuated by the attenuations gto g, as an effect sound providing a reverberation to musical tones reproduced based on the sequence data in the trackby using 12 channels among 16 channels.