Electronic musical instrument with editor

• US 4,881,440 A
• Filed: 06/24/1988
• Issued: 11/21/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Kakizaki, Tadasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Witkowski, Stanley J.
• Application Number:
  US07/210,926
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• Field of Search: 84/1.01, 84/1.03, 84/1.09, 84/1.1, 84/1.27, 84/1.28, 84/DIG. 12, 84/DIG. 22, 84/DIG. 7, 84/DIG. 29, 84/115, 84/462
• US Class Current: 84/609
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0041 in coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/185 Arpeggio, i.e. notes played or sung in rapid sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously, e.g. as a chord; Generators therefor, i.e. arpeggiators; Discrete glissando effects on instruments not permitting continuous glissando, e.g. xylophone or piano, with stepwise pitch variation and on which distinct onsets due to successive note triggerings can be heard
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/321 Missing fundamental, i.e. creating the psychoacoustic impression of a missing fundamental tone through synthesis of higher harmonics, e.g. to play bass notes pitched below the frequency range of reproducing speakers
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/016 File editing, i.e. modifying musical data files or streams as such
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 84/22 Chord organs

Abstract

There is disclosed an electronic keyboard system capable of producing musical tones on the basis of a sequence of pieces of musical data information and comprising: a) memory for storing the pieces of musical data information grouped by time durations with respect to a beginning of a performance; b) modification range defining portion for specifying a head position and a terminational position in the pieces of musical data information; c) setting portion for establishing a variation; d) modifying portion for modifying each first musical data information between the head position and the terminational position on the basis of the variation.

Claims

1. An electronic musical instrument capable of producing musical tones on the basis of a sequence of pieces of musical data information, said musical tones representing a music, said pieces of musical data information being representative of attributes of said musical tones, comprising:

(a) memory means for storing said pieces of musical data information grouped by time durations with respect to a beginning of a performance;

(b) modification range defining means for specifying a head position and a terminational position in said pieces of musical data information, said head position and said terminational position defining a part of said music;

(c) setting means for providing a variation for modifying one of said attributes;

(d) modifying means for modifying said pieces of musical data information between said head position and said terminational position on the basis of said variation.

2. An electronic musical instrument capable of producing musical tones on the basis of pieces of musical data information grouped by bars, said musical tones representing a music indicated by a series of bars, said pieces of musical data information being representative of attributes of said musical tones, comprising:

(a) memory means for storing said pieces of musical data information, a part of said pieces of musical data lapse of times measuring from a head position of each bar, the part of said pieces of musical data information subgrouped into each lapse of time having at least a first musical data information indicative of one of said attributes so that all pieces of musical data information contain plural pieces of first musical data information;

(b) modification range defining means for specifying a head position and a terminational position in said pieces of musical data information, said head position and said terminational position defining a part of said music;

(c) setting means for providing a variation for modifying said one of said attributes; and

(d) modifying means for modifying each piece of first musical data information between said head position and said terminational position on the basis of said variation.

3. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 2, in which each piece of first musical data information has a pair of timing data information representative of the lapse of time from the head position of each bar.

4. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 3, in which said variation represents an amount of time and in which said modifying means add the amount represented by the variation to the amount of the lapse of time represented by the timing data information of said first musical data information, thereby varying the amount of the lapse of time from the head position of each bar.

5. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 4, in which said electronic musical instrument further comprises message producing means operative to produce a prompt message in association with said setting means.

6. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 2, in which said first musical data information contains a piece of key touch data information representative of an initial key-touch proportional to a loudness of one of said musical tones.

7. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 6, in which said variation represents an amount of initial key-touch and in which said modifying means add the amount of the variation to the amount represented by the key-touch data information of said first musical data information, thereby varying the loudness of said one of said musical tones.

8. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 7, in which said electronic musical instrument further comprises message producing means operative to produce a prompt message in association with said setting means.

9. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 2, in which said first musical data information is provided with pieces of depressed-key data information produced upon substantially simultaneous key-depressions, each piece of depressed-key data information containing a key-code assigned to a key depressed by a player and in which said setting means further provide a piece of broken-chord pattern data information representative of a direction of separation to form a series of musical tones of a broken-chord, wherein said variation being representative of an amount of time.

10. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 9, in which said electronic musical instrument further comprises search means for detecting said pieces of depressed-key data information produced upon said substantially simultaneous key-depressions.

11. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 10, in which said modifying means are operative to rearrange said pieces of depressed-key data information produced upon said substantially simultaneous key-depressions in accordance with said broken-chord pattern data information and to insert a piece of modified timing data information between two pieces of said depressed-key data information adjacent to each other, said modified timing data information being representative of the sum of said lapse of time and said variation.

12. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 10, in which said search means are associated with a temporary memory where said pieces of depressed-key data information produced upon substantially simultaneous key-depressions are memorized.

13. An electronic musical instrument as set forth in claim 12, in which said electronic musical instrument further comprises message producing means operative to produce a prompt message in association with said setting means.

14. An electronic musical instrument capable of producing musical tones on the basis of pieces of musical data information grouped by bars, said musical tones representing a music indicated by said bars, said pieces of musical data information being representative of attributes of said musical tones, comprising:

(a) memory means for storing said pieces of musical data information, a part of said pieces of musical data information grouped into each bar being subgrouped by lapse of times measuring from a head position of each bar, the part of said pieces of musical data information subgrouped into each lapse of time having at least a piece of first musical data information representative of one of said attributes so that all of said pieces of musical data information contain plural pieces of said first musical data information;

(b) setting means for providing a variation for modifying said one of said attributes;

(c) modification range defining means for specifying a head position and a terminational position in said pieces of musical data information, said head and terminational positions defining a part of said music; and

(d) modifying means for modifying each piece of first musical data information between said head position and said terminational position on the basis of said variation.