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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2003
Ichiro Futohashi, Hamakita, JP;
Ichiro Futohashi, Hamakita, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A CPUoperates in response to an instruction for starting reproduction of a melody to read out tone color data and tempo data included in selected musical composition data from a RAMor a ROM, and transfer the readout data to a musical tone-generating section. The CPUthen reads out starting position information written in a performance starting point register, reads out note data included in the musical composition data from a position indicated by the starting position information from the RAMor the ROM, and transfers the readout note data to the musical tone-generating section. The musical tone-generating sectiongenerates a melody from the transferred note data based on the transferred tone color data and tempo data. As a result, the melody can be listened to from an arbitrary starting position.
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