US4875400A
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Electronic musical instrument with touch response function
Assignee: Casio Computer Co Ltd
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Filing: 1988-05-26
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Granted: 1989-10-24
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Expires: 2008-05-26
Abstract
Abstract In preparing a musical tone by synthesizing tone waveforms from a plurality of tone waveform generators, touch response data representing parameters such as key depressing speed or string picking force is generated from a touch response data preparing unit. The obtained touch response data can be used to affect the musical tone. Touch curves can be independently designated to these tone waveform generators with a manually operating unit. A weighting device for modifying a touch curve by selecting loudness level and sensitivity is provided so that various touch curves can be attained from a single touch curve for weighting the musical tone.
Inventors
- 👤 Hiroko Okuda
- 👤 Makoto Takenaka
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 00:05
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H1/00; G10H1/02; G10H1/04; G10H1/053
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
147 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for synthesizing a plurality of tone waveform data from a plurality of tone waveform generating means for generation of musical tone, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means to generate touch data; touch response data preparing means for preparing a plurality of touch response data based on said touch data; designation means for enabling a player of the electronic musical instrument to designate one of said plurality of touch response data for each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data obtained from each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means in response to the respective designated one of said plurality of touch response data.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
147 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for synthesizing a plurality of tone waveform data from a plurality of tone waveform generating means for generation of musical tone, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means to generate touch data; touch response data preparing means for preparing a plurality of touch response data based on said touch data; designation means for enabling a player of the electronic musical instrument to designate one of said plurality of touch response data for each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data obtained from each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means in response to the respective designated one of said plurality of touch response data.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
38 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein said touch response data preparing means includes a plurality of memory means in each of which touch response waveform data having touch response data as a parameter is stored.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 2, further comprising setting means for storing arbitrary touch response waveform data in each of said memory means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
69 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 2, wherein said designation means enables designation of any of said plurality of touch response data stored in said memory means for each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means, and wherein said weighting means weights said tone waveform data from each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means using the designated one of said plurality of touch response data.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means includes: a digital controlled oscillator means for outputting a reference waveform; loudness envelope preparing means for preparing a loudness envelope; and a first multiplier means for multiplying an output from said digital controlled oscillator means by an output of said loudness envelope preparing means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 5, wherein said weighting means includes a second multiplier means for multiplying said loudness envelope from each of said loudness envelope preparing means by that touch response data which corresponds to said touch data.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
157 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for synthesizing a plurality of tone waveform data from a plurality of tone waveform generating means for generation of a musical tone, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means to generate touch data; memory means for storing a plurality of touch response waveform data having, as a parameter, said touch data prepared by said touch data preparing means; designation means for designating one of said plurality of touch response waveform data for each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means; modifying means for modifying said touch response waveform data designed by said designation means; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data from each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means using said touch response waveform data modified by said modifying means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
157 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for synthesizing a plurality of tone waveform data from a plurality of tone waveform generating means for generation of a musical tone, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means to generate touch data; memory means for storing a plurality of touch response waveform data having, as a parameter, said touch data prepared by said touch data preparing means; designation means for designating one of said plurality of touch response waveform data for each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means; modifying means for modifying said touch response waveform data designed by said designation means; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data from each of said plurality of tone waveform generating means using said touch response waveform data modified by said modifying means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
65 words
The electronic musical instrument according to claim 7, wherein said modifying means includes: input means for inputting modification data for modifying shapes of said plurality of touch response waveform data stored in said memory means; and computing means for computing an interpolation value between data read out from said memory means by said touch data and a predetermined reference value based on said modification data.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
168 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for reflecting a touch state for tone generation start designating means on tone waveform data from tone waveform generating means using touch response waveform data, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means and preparing corresponding touch data; memory means for storing touch response waveform data; readout means for reading out said touch response waveform data from said memory means by said touch data; input means for inputting modifying data for modifying a shape of said touch response waveform data stored in said memory means; computing means for computing an interpolation value between data read out from said memory means by said touch data and a predetermined reference value based on said modifying data; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data from said tone waveform generating means based on data attained by said computing means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
168 words
An electronic musical instrument with a touch response function for reflecting a touch state for tone generation start designating means on tone waveform data from tone waveform generating means using touch response waveform data, said instrument comprising; manually operating means for generating a touch state when it is operated manually; touch data preparing means for detecting the touch state of said manually operating means and preparing corresponding touch data; memory means for storing touch response waveform data; readout means for reading out said touch response waveform data from said memory means by said touch data; input means for inputting modifying data for modifying a shape of said touch response waveform data stored in said memory means; computing means for computing an interpolation value between data read out from said memory means by said touch data and a predetermined reference value based on said modifying data; and weighting means for weighting said tone waveform data from said tone waveform generating means based on data attained by said computing means.
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