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Electronic musical instrument
Assignee: Nippon Gakki Co Ltd
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Filing: 1982-04-21
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Granted: 1983-11-22
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Expires: 2002-04-21
Abstract
Abstract An electronic musical instrument comprising a tone generator, an accumulator and a digital filter. The tone generator generates musical tone signals each represented by sampled values, corresponding to depressed keys. The accumulator accumulates the sampled values of the musical tone signals at predetermined timings. The digital filter modifies an output of the accumulator in accordance with the amplitude-frequency characteristic of a predetermined formant characteristic. A musical tone is produced based on an output of the digital filter circuit, thereby the formant characteristic is imparted to the musical tone. This utilization of the digital filter for the musical instrument makes it possible to impart a formant characteristic to a musical tone without a complex circuit construction. Moreover the insertion of the accumulator following the tone generator makes it possible to use the digital filter of a low speed type.
Inventors
- 👤 Masatada Wachi
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-06 11:25
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H7/00; G10H1/00; G10H1/02; G10H1/06; G10H1/12; G10H1/125; G10H5/00; G10H5/002; G10H2250/00; G10H2250/471; G10H2250/481; G10H2250/505; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S84/00; Y10S84/09
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
168 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: keyboard means having a plurality of keys; tone color selecting means for selecting a tone color among predetermined tone colors; tone signal generating means for generating, on a time division basis, musical tone signals corresponding to depressed keys among said plurality of keys, said musical tone signals collectively forming a periodic sequence of sampled values which occurs respectively, each said musical tone signal containing a fundamental component and harmonic components determined by the selected tone color; accumulating means connected to said tone signal generating means for accumulating the sampled values of said sequence and resetting the accumulated value to a predetermined value after outputting an accumulated musical tone signal represented by said accumulated value once per repetition of said sequence; digital filtering means connected to said accumulating means for imparting a fixed formant characteristic characterizing said selected tone color to said accumulated musical tone signal; and musical tone forming means for forming a musical tone in accordance with said accumulated musical tone signal.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
168 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: keyboard means having a plurality of keys; tone color selecting means for selecting a tone color among predetermined tone colors; tone signal generating means for generating, on a time division basis, musical tone signals corresponding to depressed keys among said plurality of keys, said musical tone signals collectively forming a periodic sequence of sampled values which occurs respectively, each said musical tone signal containing a fundamental component and harmonic components determined by the selected tone color; accumulating means connected to said tone signal generating means for accumulating the sampled values of said sequence and resetting the accumulated value to a predetermined value after outputting an accumulated musical tone signal represented by said accumulated value once per repetition of said sequence; digital filtering means connected to said accumulating means for imparting a fixed formant characteristic characterizing said selected tone color to said accumulated musical tone signal; and musical tone forming means for forming a musical tone in accordance with said accumulated musical tone signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
An electronic musical instrument according to 1 wherein said tone signal generating means includes a plurality of tone production channels for producing said musical tone signals.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
An electronic musical instrument according to 1 wherein said tone signal generating means includes a plurality of tone production channels for producing said musical tone signals.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 wherein said musical tone forming means includes a digital-analog converter.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
34 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 which further includes a parallel/serial converter which is connected in series between an output of said accumulating means and an input of said digital filtering means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
67 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 wherein said accumulating means includes a plurality of accumulators, a plurality of registers respectively connected to receive outputs of said accumulators, a distributor for distributing outputs of said tone signal generating means to one from among said plurality of accumulators, and a selector for selectively supplying selected ones of the outputs of said registers to said digital filtering means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
75 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 or 5 which further includes a tone color selection circuit for selecting either one of a plurality of tone colors of formant characteristics to produce a tone color selection information, a tone color parameter memory for storing filter characteristic parameter information determined by said formant characteristics and supplying filter characteristic parameter information read out in accordance with said tone color selection information to said digital filtering means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
41 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 6 wherein said tone color parameter memory further stores tone color parameter information and supplies tone color parameter information read out in accordance with said tone color selection information to said tone generating means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
30 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 6 wherein said tone color selection circuit includes a plurality of switches for designating tone colors to be imparted to said musical tone.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
59 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 6 wherein said parameter register includes a buffer register circuit for storing parameter informations for respective tone colors transferred from said tone color parameter memory and a selector for deriving out one after one said informations stored in said buffer registers and for supplying derived out informations to said digital filtering means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
19 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 9 wherein said buffer register circuit comprises a plurality of buffer registers.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
30 words
An electronic musical instrument according to claim 9 wherein said buffer register circuit comprises a multiple stage shift register adapted to store outputs of said selector at respective stages thereof.
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