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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
May. 25, 2007
Eiji Akazawa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Eiji Akazawa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi, JP;
Abstract
Either a tone generation priority mode or a quality priority mode can be set. If the currently-set mode is the tone generation priority mode when a connecting tone is to be generated for connecting between two successive notes, the joint-portion waveform data is selected for synthesis of the tone, stored head-portion waveform data and tail-portion waveform data are selected, and at least one of a pitch and amplitude of at least one of the head-portion waveform data and tail-portion waveform data is processed so as to provide a smoothly-varying connecting tone. In accordance with the processing, a tone of a fall portion of a temporally preceding one of two successive notes and a temporally succeeding one of the two successive notes are separately synthesized on the basis of the tail-portion waveform data and head-portion waveform data, respectively, so that a connecting tone is realized by a combination of the synthesized tone of the fall portion of the preceding note and the synthesized tone of the rise portion of the succeeding note.