Automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus

Claim 2

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus, comprising: first input means for receiving tone pitch information of an accompaniment pattern from an external device, said first input means comprising a plurality of channels; second input means for receiving a designating chord; supply means for supplying an original chord based on the accompaniment pattern and corresponding with each channel of said first input means; tone pitch conversion means for converting in tone pitch the tone pitch information of the accompaniment pattern in accordance with the designation chord and the original chord respectively supplied from said second input means and said supply means; and output means for producing the converted tone pitch information of the accompaniment pattern as automatic accompaniment information.

Claim 3

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said supply means comprises: memory means for storing a plurality of setting tables to be selected by a user in accordance with the accompaniment pattern, each of said setting tables being capable of storing a root and a type of an original chord to be designated by the user for producing the accompaniment pattern.

Claim 4

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus comprising: input means for inputting tone pitch information of an accompaniment pattern from an external device; means for selecting one of a plurality of original chords; designation means for designating a designation chord; determining means for determining attributes of said tone pitch information input by said input means based on said selected original chord and said tone pitch information input by said input means; tone pitch changing means for changing said tone pitch information input by said input means in accordance with said selected original chord, said designation chord designated by said designating means, and said attributes determined by said determining means; and output means for outputting said tone pitch information changed by said tone pitch changing means as automatic accompaniment information.

Claim 5

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus comprising: input means for inputting tone pitch information of an accompaniment pattern from an external device; means for selecting one of a plurality of original chords; designation means for designating a designation chord; determining means for determining attributes of said tone pitch information input by said input means based on said selected original chord and said tone pitch information input by said input means; tone pitch changing means for changing said tone pitch information input by said input means in accordance with said selected original chord, said designation chord designated by said designating means, and said attributes determined by said determining means; and output means for outputting said tone pitch information changed by said tone pitch changing means as automatic accompaniment information.

Claim 6

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein said tone pitch information input by said input means comprises a sequence of note codes.

Claim 7

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein said detection means detects an attribute for each note code in said tone pitch information input by said input means.

Claim 8

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein said tone pitch changing means changes a tone pitch of each note code in said tone pitch information input by said input means.

Claim 9

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 4 wherein said means for selecting an original chord comprises memory means for storing a plurality of setting tables to be selected by a user, each of said setting tables comprising a plurality of original chords and for each said original chord a root and type of said original chord.

Claim 10

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein said determining means comprises: memory means for storing a classification table comprising a plurality of tone pitch names for each of a plurality of original chord types, wherein for each original chord type, each tone pitch name is classified as a chord constituent tone, a scale tone, or a non-scale tone; and means for reading said classification table to determine said attributes of said tone pitch information input.

Claim 11

An automatic accompaniment information producing apparatus as claimed in claim 3 wherein said tone pitch changing means comprises: memory means for storing a plurality of note conversion tables, each said note conversion table comprising tone shift data for each of a plurality of tone pitch names and each of a plurality of original chord types.

Claim 14

A method for producing automatic accompaniment information as claimed in claim 10, wherein said step of designating a designation chord comprises designating a chord produced in a real time by operation of a keyboard.