Motif playing apparatus

Details Motif playing apparatus Motif playing apparatus

1990-12-14

1993-01-26

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

G10H 136, G10H 140, G10H 700

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051824140

ABSTRACT:
A motif playing apparatus comprises a ROM for storing fixed ad-lib motif data, a RAM for reading out the fixed ad-lib motif data from the ROM and temporarily storing the read ad-lib motif data, a CPU for rewriting the fixed ad-lib motif data stored in the RAM to arbitrary ad-lib motif data, and a tone generator for generating a musical tone corresponding to the ad-lib motif data stored in the RAM. The CPU executes a process of assigning the arbitrary ad-lib motif data, which has replaced the fixed ad-lib motif data stored in the RAM, to a key on a keyboard.
This apparatus further has a switch to specify the length of ad-lib motif data at the time of assigning this data to the associated key.
Further, the apparatus is designed to be able to synchronously generate motif data indicating a motif of an accompaniment and motif data indicating a melody motif when a multi switch is depressed.

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