US5024133A
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Electronic musical instrument with improved generation of wind instruments
Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1989-05-08
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Granted: 1991-06-18
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Expires: 2009-05-08
Abstract
Abstract The purpose of the present invention is to offer an electronic musical instrument which can synthesize the sound of brass instruments with fidelity and furthermore in real time. In order to achieve the above purpose, the musical sound synthesis algorithm is to utilize the tonguing information as well as the embouchure information in addition to the sound generation information, the frequency information, and the sound volume information, which have been used as the playing informations in conventional electronic musical instruments. Furthermore, by tabulating the functional relations between the above-mentioned playing informations and corresponding output waveforms, and storing them in memories, necessary waveforms for sounding the musical instrument can be obtained by only referring to those tables, thereby the speed-up, that is, the realization by hardware, can be realized and thus the sound of brass instruments can be synthesized with fidelity and in real time.
Inventors
- 👤 Masahiro Nakanishi
- 👤 Daisuke Mori
- 👤 Katsuyoshi Fujii
- 👤 Masahiko Hatanaka
- 👤 Hiroko Shinada
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 23:22
CPC Classifications
G; G10; G10H; G10H5/00; G10H5/007; G10H2250/00; G10H2250/315; G10H2250/461; G10H2250/471; G10H2250/511; G10H2250/521
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
121 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a controller section which sends out, as playing information, sound generation information Kon, frequency information w, sound volume information Ps, tonguing information To, and embouchure information Am; a lip movement section which calculates lip information s indicating a degree of opening of lips in accordance with the playing information (To,W,Am,Ps) sent out from said controller section; a waveform generation section which generates desired waveform data Pout in accordance with the lip information s calculated from said lip movement section and the frequency information w, and the sound volume information Ps sent out from said controller section; and a digital-to-analog converter for making digital-to-analog conversions of the waveform data Pout sent out from said waveform generation section.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
121 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a controller section which sends out, as playing information, sound generation information Kon, frequency information w, sound volume information Ps, tonguing information To, and embouchure information Am; a lip movement section which calculates lip information s indicating a degree of opening of lips in accordance with the playing information (To,W,Am,Ps) sent out from said controller section; a waveform generation section which generates desired waveform data Pout in accordance with the lip information s calculated from said lip movement section and the frequency information w, and the sound volume information Ps sent out from said controller section; and a digital-to-analog converter for making digital-to-analog conversions of the waveform data Pout sent out from said waveform generation section.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
An electronic musical instrument in accordance with claim 1 wherein: said lip movement section calculates the lip information s by selecting one table corresponding to tonguing information To from at least two tables.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
An electronic musical instrument in accordance with claim 1 wherein: said lip movement section calculates the lip information s by multiplying data for calculating the lip information s stored in a memory with embouchure information Am.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
265 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a controller section which sends out, as playing information, sound generation information Kon, frequency information w, sound volume Ps, tonguing information To, and embouchure information Am; a lip movement section which calculates lip information s indicating a degree of opening of lips in accordance with the playing information (To,w,Am,Ps) sent out from said controller section and one table corresponding to the tonguing information to be selected from tables g(w,t,To) stored in a memory, by executing an equation (A); a waveform generation section which generates desired waveform data Pout in accordance with the lip information s calculated from said lip movement section and the frequency information w, and the sound volume information Ps sent out from said controller section by executing equations (B) and (C); and a digital-to-analog converter making digital-to-analog conversations of the waveform data Pout sent out from said waveform generation section wherein the equations (A), (B) and (C) can be expressed as: ##EQU7## wherein T{g(w,t,To)} is a function which returns a value of g from a first table g(w,t,To) storing g, T{Zm(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of Zm from a second table Zm(s,w,Ps) storing Zm, T{Om(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of m from a third table Om(s,w,Ps) storing m, T{Xm(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value Xm from a fourth table Xm(s,w,Ps) storing values of Xm, T{Bm(n)} is a function which returns a value of Bm from a fifth table Bm(n) storing Bm, and T{Pout(Pm,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of Pout from a sixth table Pout(Pm,Ps) storing Pout.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
265 words
An electronic musical instrument comprising: a controller section which sends out, as playing information, sound generation information Kon, frequency information w, sound volume Ps, tonguing information To, and embouchure information Am; a lip movement section which calculates lip information s indicating a degree of opening of lips in accordance with the playing information (To,w,Am,Ps) sent out from said controller section and one table corresponding to the tonguing information to be selected from tables g(w,t,To) stored in a memory, by executing an equation (A); a waveform generation section which generates desired waveform data Pout in accordance with the lip information s calculated from said lip movement section and the frequency information w, and the sound volume information Ps sent out from said controller section by executing equations (B) and (C); and a digital-to-analog converter making digital-to-analog conversations of the waveform data Pout sent out from said waveform generation section wherein the equations (A), (B) and (C) can be expressed as: ##EQU7## wherein T{g(w,t,To)} is a function which returns a value of g from a first table g(w,t,To) storing g, T{Zm(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of Zm from a second table Zm(s,w,Ps) storing Zm, T{Om(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of m from a third table Om(s,w,Ps) storing m, T{Xm(s,w,Ps)} is a function which returns a value Xm from a fourth table Xm(s,w,Ps) storing values of Xm, T{Bm(n)} is a function which returns a value of Bm from a fifth table Bm(n) storing Bm, and T{Pout(Pm,Ps)} is a function which returns a value of Pout from a sixth table Pout(Pm,Ps) storing Pout.
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