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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Tetsuya Hirano, Hamamatsu, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuya Hirano, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho, Hamamatsu-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01H 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A musical tone generating apparatus, which is capable of effectively utilizing the access timing for an unused slave sound source, is provided. The musical tone generating apparatus is composed of a master sound source, which comprises a mode switching means, an accumulator, an upper-address processing means, an address memory for a second sound source, an address-switching output means, a waveform data register, a sample buffer, an interpolation coefficient memory, an interpolation coefficient extracting means, a sample interpolation meansand a selection means