Musical performance apparatus and musical performance program

• US 9,082,382 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2013
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Akiyama, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Donels, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US13/733,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20130174715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: 84603-605
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/46 Volume control
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/305 Source positioning in a soundscape, e.g. instrument positioning on a virtual soundstage, stereo panning or related delay or reverberation changes; Changing the stereo width of a musical source
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/096 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/615 Waveform editing, i.e. setting or modifying parameters for waveform synthesis
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/641 Waveform sampler, i.e. music samplers; Sampled music loop processing, wherein a loop is a sample of a performance that has been edited to repeat seamlessly without clicks or artifacts
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/008 Means for controlling the transition from one tone waveform to another
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/02 in which amplitudes at successive sample points of a tone waveform are stored in one or more memories

Abstract

The musical performance apparatus has a ROM 17cwhich stores sample values obtained by sampling a plurality of tones corresponding to a plurality of digital signals each having a different bit pattern so that the sample values of waveforms of the tones will correspond to sampling periods. In the ROM 17c, the sample values are stored in association with addresses. The musical performance apparatus also has a computer portion 17 and a tone generation circuit 15 which select one or more tones from the plurality of tones in accordance with musical score data SD formed of a plurality of bits, read out waveform data indicative of the selected tones from the ROM 17c, and reproduce the selected tones. The plurality of tones are formed of frequency components included in a certain high frequency band.

Claims

1. A musical performance apparatus comprising:

waveform data storing portion storing a plurality of basic waveform data sets indicative of waveforms of a plurality of different tones corresponding to a plurality of different digital signals and containing frequency components included in a predetermined frequency band; and

reproducing portion that selects two or more tones from among the plurality of tones in accordance with a control signal for controlling an external apparatus, reads out the basic waveform data indicative of the selected tones from the waveform data storing portion, and reproduces a control tone that corresponds to the control signal,

wherein the control tone includes a combination of the selected tones.

2. The musical performance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the digital signals is formed of a plurality of bits; and

each of the plurality of different tones corresponds to values of bits forming the respective digital signal.

3. The musical performance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of different tones is a modulated tone obtained by modulating a carrier wave by use of the digital signal.

4. The musical performance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the external apparatus has a display unit to display a score, and

the control signal has a score page designating signal designating the page position of the score to be displayed on the display unit.

5. The musical performance apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the score page designating signal is generated by spreading the data representative of the page position of the score to be displayed on the display unit and modulating the spread data by using differential phase shift modulation scheme.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program executable by a processor of a musical performance apparatus having waveform data storing portion, to execute a method comprising the steps of:

storing, in the waveform data storing portion, a plurality of basic waveform data sets indicative of waveforms of a plurality of different tones corresponding to a plurality of different digital signals and containing frequency components included in a predetermined frequency band;

selecting two or more tones from among the plurality of tones in accordance with a control signal for controlling an external apparatus;

reading out the basic waveform data indicative of the selected tones from the waveform data storing portion; and

reproducing a control tone corresponding to the control signal by combining the selected tones.

7. A musical performance apparatus comprising:

waveform data storing portion storing a plurality of waveform data sets indicative of waveforms of different tones corresponding to a plurality of different digital signals and containing frequency components included in a predetermined frequency band; and

reproducing portion that selects one or more tones from among the tones in accordance with a control signal for controlling an external apparatus, reads out the waveform data indicative of the selected tones from the waveform data storing portion, and reproduces the selected tones,

wherein the external apparatus has a display unit to display a score,

wherein the control signal has a score page designating signal designating the page position of the score to be displayed on the display unit.

8. The musical performance apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the score page designating signal is generated by spreading the data representative of the page position of the score to be displayed on the display unit and modulating the spread data by using differential phase shift modulation scheme.