CONNECTION SETTING OF TONE PROCESSING MODULE

• US 20170124998A1
• Filed: 11/01/2016
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: ISHIBASHI, Masao, SASAKI, Naoya
• Granted Patent: US 10,147,408 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0058 Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system G10H1/0083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/183 Channel-assigning means for polyphonic instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/28 to produce arpeggios
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/005 Non-interactive screen display of musical or status data graphical user interfaces specifically adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H2220/091; fingering displays G10H2220/041

Abstract

A first input section is used for inputting first tone data, and a first output section is connected to the first input section via a first path. A second input section is used for inputting second tone data, and a second output section is connected to the second input section via a second path. A tone processing module performs tone processing on the tone data, and a processor is configured to insert the tone processing module into the first and second paths in response to selection of first and second modes, respectively. The tone processing module performs the tone processing on the first tone data in the first mode, and performs the tone processing on the second tone data in the second mode. The above allows connection of the module to be set easily in response to the selected mode.

Claims

1. Musical equipment comprising:

a first input section to which first tone data is input;

a second input section to which input second tone data is input;

a first output section connected to the first input section via a first path;

a second output section connected to the second input section via a second path;

a tone processing module that performs tone processing on input tone data; and

a processor configured to insert the tone processing module into the first path in response to selection of a first mode and insert the tone processing module into the second path in response to selection of a second mode,

wherein the tone processing module performs the tone processing on the first tone data, input via the first input section, in the first mode, and performs the tone processing on the second tone data, input via the second input section, in the second mode.

2. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises a mode selection section configured such that any one of the first mode and the second mode is selected by a user.

3. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor shifts the tone processing module to any one of the first path and the second path depending on which of the first mode and the second mode is being selected.

4. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 3, which further comprises a display configured to display which of the first path and the second path the tone processing module is being inserted in.

5. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, which further comprises a switch that selectively connects a first branch point in the first path and a second branch point in the second path to each other.

6. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first branch point is located on an output side of the tone processing module in the first path, and the second branch point is located on an input side of the tone processing module in the second path and

wherein the switch is turned on to connect the first branch point and the second branch point to each other, thereby forming a third path connecting the first input section to the second output section.

7. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to, at least in response to selection of the second mode, set the switch to OFF to prevent connection between the first branch point and the second branch point.

8. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to, at least on condition that the second tone data is not being input to the second input section, set the switch to ON to connect the first branch point and the second branch point to each other.

9. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processor is configured to set the switch to OFF in the case where the first output section is connected to an input section of external equipment and the second input section is connected to an output section of the external equipment, and to set the switch to ON in the case where the external equipment is connected to neither the first output section nor the second input section of the musical equipment, and

wherein the switch is turned on to connect the first branch point and the second branch point to each other, thereby forming a third path connecting the first input section to the second output section.

10. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the switch is set to ON or OFF by a user, and

wherein the switch is turned on to connect the first branch point and the second branch point to each other, thereby forming a third path connecting the first input section to the second output section.

11. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second output section includes a tone generator that generates a tone signal based on input tone data.

12. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first input section includes a performance operation device operable by a user to execute a music performance, and

wherein the second output section includes a tone generator that generates a tone signal based on input tone data.

13. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first mode is selected in response to connection of the first output section to an input section of external equipment, so that output data of the tone processing module, obtained through the tone processing on the first tone data is input to the external equipment.

14. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second output section includes a tone generator that generates a tone signal based on input tone data, and

wherein the first mode is selected in response to connection of the first output section to the second input section so that output data of the tone processing module output from the first output section is returned to the second input section, whereby the output data of the tone processing module is supplied to the tone generator.

15. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 14, wherein an external equipment is provided between the first output section and the second input section.

16. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone processing module comprises an arpeggiator that automatically creates arpeggio performance information, indicative of arpeggio performance tones, based on the input tone data.

17. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone processing module comprises an effecter that imparts a sound effect to the input tone data.

18. The musical equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone processing module comprises a program module stored in a memory, and a function of the tone processing module is implemented by the program module being executed by the processor.

19. A method for performing tone processing in musical equipment, the musical equipment including:

a first input section to which first tone data is input;

a second input section to which second tone data is input;

a first output section connected to the first input section via a first path;

a second output section connected to the second input section via a second path; and

a tone processing module that performs tone processing on input tone data, the method comprising;

inserting, by a processor, the tone processing module into the first path in response to selection of a first mode; and

inserting, by the processor, the tone processing module into the second path in response to selection of a second mode,

wherein the tone processing module performs the tone processing on the first tone data, input via the first input section, in the first mode, and performs the tone processing on the second tone data, input via the second input section, in the second mode.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing a program executable by a processor to perform a method for performing tone processing in musical equipment, the musical equipment including:

a first input section to which first tone data is input;

a second input section to which second tone data is input;

a first output section connected to the first input section via a first path;

a second output section connected to the second input section via a second path; and

a tone processing module that performs tone processing on input tone data, the method comprising;

inserting the tone processing module into the first path in response to selection of a first mode; and

inserting the tone processing module into the second path in response to selection of a second mode,

wherein the tone processing module performs the tone processing on the first tone data, input via the first input section, in the first mode, and performs the tone processing on the second tone data, input via the second input section, in the second mode.