Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1995-10-27
1998-01-27
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84615, 84618, G10H 106, G10H 118
Patent
active
057124388
ABSTRACT:
A timbre information registration apparatus registers timbre variations which have different instrumental attributes and different modification degrees such that the registered timbre variations are selectively applied to instrument sounds synthesized by an electronic musical instrument. A memory has a matrix of memory locations arranged in rows and columns and assigned to individually register the timbre variations such that one timbre variation is selected by a row address and a column address. The individual timbre variations are categorized into a plurality of instrument kinds such that one instrument kind contains certain timbre variations having a common instrumental attribute. The individual timbre variations are also categorized into a plurality of version groups such that one version group contains certain timbre variations of the same modification degree. The column addresses are assigned to the respective instrument kinds such that the certain timbre variations belonging to one instrument kind are registered at the memory locations of one column. The row addresses are divided into a plurality of sections in correspondence to the plurality of the version groups such that the certain timbre variations belonging to one version group are registered at the memory locations specified by the row addresses of one section.
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Fletcher Marlon T.
Witkowski Stanley J.
Yamaha Corporation
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