MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL APPARATUS, ELECTRIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, MUSICAL SOUND CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160019875A1
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: MORIYAMA, Osamu
• Granted Patent: US 9,704,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 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 a selected value among the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position, and processing of setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, 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.

2. The musical sound control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the parameter control unit executes processing of, in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction to the standard position when changing an assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the 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.

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 the direction of the standard position while executing the processing of setting the value of the second parameter to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, the parameter control unit releases the processing of setting the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion 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 parameter control unit executes at least either of control to cause the operated position to correspond to a setting value of the parameter or 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 parameter control unit 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 parameter control unit executes processing of changing the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position as a position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position by an operation, and executes processing of, when changing an assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the 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 the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which corresponds to the position of the standard position.

8. An electric musical instrument comprising:

a 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 changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion, the method comprising the steps of:

changing a selected value among the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position; and

setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, 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.

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

in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction to the standard position when changing an assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the 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 the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion.

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

in a case in which the index portion is operated in a direction opposite to the direction of the standard position while executing the processing of setting the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, releasing the processing of setting the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, and changing the second parameter according to an operated position of the index portion.

12. A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer-readable program that is executed by a musical sound control apparatus including an operator which has an index portion and changes values of a plurality of kinds of parameters by moving a position of the index portion, the program causing the apparatus to execute the processing of:

changing a selected value among the values of the plurality of kinds of parameters according to an operated position to which the index portion was moved from a standard position; and

setting a value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, 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.

13. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 12, the program causing the apparatus to further execute the processing of:

in a case in which the index portion is moved in a direction to the standard position when changing an assignment to the operator from the first parameter among the plurality of kinds of parameters to the 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 the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 12, the program causing the apparatus to further execute the processing of:

in a case in which the index portion is operated in a direction opposite to the direction of the standard position while executing the processing of setting the value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, releasing the processing of setting thr value of the second parameter assigned to a value which does not correspond to the position of the index portion, and executing processing of changing the second parameter according to an operated position of the index portion.