Musical sound control apparatus, electric musical instrument, musical sound control method, and program storage medium

• US 9,704,463 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Moriyama, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Warren, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE
• Application Number:
  US14/797,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20160019875A1
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• Field of Search: 84602
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/00 Details of electrophonic musical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0091 Means for obtaining special acoustic effects combined with modulation G10H1/043
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/02 Means for controlling the tone frequencies, e.g. attack or decay; Means for producing special musical effects, e.g. vibratos or glissandos
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/46 Volume control
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/004 with one or more auxiliary processor in addition to the main processing unit

Abstract

A musical sound control apparatus includes: an operator which as an index portion and changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion; and a parameter control unit which executes processing of changing the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position as a position at which the index portion was moved from a standard position by an operation and processing of, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to a second parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters in a state in which the index portion is positioned at a position other than the standard position, setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion.

Claims

1. A musical sound control apparatus, comprising:

an operator which has an index portion and which changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion;

a parameter selection unit which selects a parameter assigned to the operator from among the plurality of kinds of parameters; and

a processor which executes processing of (i) changing a value of the parameter selected by the parameter selection unit according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position, and (ii) not changing a value of a second parameter assigned to the position indicated by the index portion, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter when the second parameter is selected by the parameter selection unit in a state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, so as to suppress a situation in which a value of the second parameter changes rapidly after changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter to the second parameter selected by the parameter selection unit.

2. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor further executes processing of, in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction towards the standard position when changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter selected by the parameter selection unit in the state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, setting the value of the assigned second parameter to a value which does not correspond to the position indicated by the index portion.

3. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case in which the index portion is operated in a direction opposite to a direction of the standard position while the processor is executing the processing of not changing the value of the second parameter, the processor stops executing the processing of not changing the value of the second parameter and executes processing of changing the second parameter according to an operated position of the index portion.

4. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a parameter assignment unit that assigns any of the plurality of kinds of parameters to the operator.

5. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor executes at least one of (i) control to cause the operated position to correspond to a setting value of the parameter and (ii) control to cause an operated position of the index portion to correspond to a change rate of the parameter.

6. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case in which the index portion is positioned at the standard position, the processor judges that the index portion is positioned at the standard position and executes control not to change a value of the kind of parameter.

7. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor further executes processing of changing the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to the operated position to which the index portion was moved from the standard position by an input operation, and when changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter selected by the parameter selection unit in the state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, executes processing of setting the value of the assigned second parameter to a value which corresponds to the position of the standard position.

8. An electric musical instrument comprising:

the musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1; and

a musical sound output unit that outputs a musical sound controlled by the musical sound control apparatus.

9. A musical sound control method executed by a musical sound control apparatus including an operator which has an index portion and which changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion, the method comprising:

selecting a parameter assigned to the operator from among the plurality of kinds of parameters;

changing a value of the parameter selected in the selecting according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position; and

not changing a value of a second parameter assigned to the position indicated by the index portion, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter when the second parameter is selected in the selecting in a state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, so as to suppress a situation in which a value of the second parameter changes rapidly after changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter to the second parameter selected in the selecting.

10. The musical sound control method according to claim 9, further comprising:

in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction towards the standard position when changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter selected in the selecting in the state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, setting the value of the assigned second parameter to a value which does not correspond to the position indicated by the index portion.

11. The musical sound control method according to claim 9, further comprising:

in a case in which the index portion is operated in a direction opposite to a direction of the standard position while executing the step of not changing the value of the second parameter stopping the step of not changing the value of the second parameter and changing the second parameter according to an operated position of the index portion.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon that is executable by a musical sound control apparatus including an operator which has an index portion and which changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion, the program being executable to control the apparatus to execute processes comprising:

a process of selecting a parameter assigned to the operator from among the plurality of kinds of parameters;

a process of changing a value of the parameter selected in the selecting according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position; and

a process of not changing a value of a second parameter assigned to the position indicated by the index portion, when changing an assignment to the operator from a first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter when the second parameter is selected in the process of selecting in a state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, so as to suppress a situation in which a value of the second parameter changes rapidly after changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter to the second parameter selected in the selecting.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12, the program being executable to control the apparatus to further execute:

in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction towards the standard position when changing the assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the second parameter selected in the process of selecting in the state in which the position indicated by the index portion is not the standard position, a process of setting the value of the assigned second parameter to a value which does not correspond to the position indicated by the index portion.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12, the program being executable to control the apparatus to further execute:

in a case in which the index portion is operated in a direction opposite to a direction of the standard position while executing the process of not changing the value of the second parameter stopping the process of not changing the value of the second parameter and changing the second parameter according to an operated position of the index portion.