Electronic musical instrument for playing along with prerecorded

Details Electronic musical instrument for playing along with prerecorded Electronic musical instrument for playing along with prerecorded

1994-06-06

1996-03-26

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84637, 84645, 84451, 84DIG22, G10H 138

Patent

active

055022740

ABSTRACT:
An electronic musical instrument includes manual input devices such as keys, a memory device or devices such as CDs which contain a prerecorded musical signal, prerecorded translation tables, and a prerecorded series of translation table switching signals synchronized to events in the musical signal such as chord changes and scale changes, a translator responsive to the manual input devices, translation tables and translation table switching signals for generating control signals, and an electronic signal generator responsive to the control signals for generating audio signals determined by the control signals.

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