Musical tone control apparatus and method

Details Musical tone control apparatus and method Musical tone control apparatus and method

2007-11-20

2007-11-20

Fletcher, Marlon (Department: 2837)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

C084S609000, C084S615000, C084S622000, C084S735000

Reexamination Certificate

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10234677

ABSTRACT:
There is provided a musical tone control apparatus that enables a user to easily play a musical instrument without spoiling the user's feeling that he is actually playing a musical instrument. A storage device stores musical piece data containing interval data indicative of intervals of musical tones constituting a musical piece. A motion of an operator is detected. A controller provides control so as to instruct a musical tone output device capable of outputting musical tones to adopt the intervals as one of characteristic amounts relating to musical tones to be output from the musical tone output device, according to the interval data, and instruct the musical tone output device to adopt at least one of the characteristic amounts other than the intervals according to the detected motion of the operator.

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Japanese Office Action dated Feb. 14, 2006 issued on Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-267951.

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