Local control function apparatus having a single switch

• US 5,367,119 A
• Filed: 02/08/1993
• Issued: 11/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Nishitani, Yoshito, Matsuda, Toshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Witkowski, Stanley J.
• Application Number:
  US08/014,976
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 84/601-620, 84/622-638, 84/645, 84/647-669, 84/DIG. 12
• US Class Current: 84/617
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0066 using a MIDI interface

Abstract

An electronic musical instrument, which, in consonance with the state of a local control function, is designed to play music independently or in conjunction with an external device, includes a detector for detecting a depression of a predetermined operation terminal immediately after power switch-on. It further includes an initial setup device for setting the initial state of the local control function in accordance with the data acquired by the detector.

Claims

1. An electronic musical instrument, which, depending upon the state of a local control function, plays music independently or in conjunction with an external device that is in electrical communication with said electronic musical instrument, said electronic musical instrument having a power switch having an "on" and an "off" state, comprising:

a plurality of operational terminals, each operational terminal of said plurality of operational terminals having an "on" state and an "off" state;

a predetermined operational terminal of said plurality of operational terminals being designated as a local control function switch;

detecting means for detecting depression of said predetermined operational terminal immediately after said power switch is placed in its "on" position;

said detecting means including scanning means for scanning said plurality of operational terminals;

an event map means for providing data to said detecting means concerning a prior setting of said predetermined operational terminal;

initial setup means for setting an initial state of said local control function in accordance with data acquired by said detecting means;

the local control function of said electronic musical instrument being placed into its previous setting immediately after power switch-on if the event map means indicates that there has been no change in the position of the predetermined operational terminal from a previous position thereof; and

said local control function being changed from its previous position immediately after power switch-on if the event map indicates that a change has occurred in the position of the predetermined operational terminal relative to a previous position thereof.

2. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, wherein said predetermined operational terminal is a predetermined panel switch and wherein said scanning means includes a panel switch scanning means.

3. The electronic musical instrument of claim 2, wherein said predetermined panel switch is a rhythm select switch.

4. The electronic musical instrument of claim 2, wherein said predetermined panel switch is a timbre select switch.

5. The electronic musical instrument of claim 2, wherein said predetermined panel switch is a volume switch.

6. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, wherein said predetermined operational terminal is a predetermined key on a keyboard that forms a part of said electronic musical instrument, and wherein said scanning means includes a keyboard scanning means.

7. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, further comprising a NEW buffer means and an OLD buffer means for storing data concerning the position of said predetermined operational terminal, and wherein said event map is prepared with information derived from a comparison of data in said NEW buffer means with data in said OLD buffer means, said information being derived from said respective buffer means by said detecting means.

8. The electronic musical instrument of claim 1, wherein said initial setup means includes means for setting an internal state of a tone generator to an initial state, means for clearing a work area in a RAM, and means for setting registers, counters, and flags in said RAM to their respective initial states.