An electronic musical instrument having switches for designating

Details An electronic musical instrument having switches for designating An electronic musical instrument having switches for designating

1990-05-24

1992-06-30

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84622, 84635, 84DIG12, G10H 106, G10H 142, G10H 700

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active

051253143

ABSTRACT:
An electronic musical instrument is disclosed in which the selection of timbre and rhythm contol functions is simplified, and the number of function switches and control panel surface area can be limited, even when the instrument has a large number of available timbre and rhythm control functions. The invention provides an electronic musical instrument employing various types of musical tone control data which are divided into groups. Additionally, the invention provides an input device which includes a plurality of switches, each switch corresponding to one of the above described groups of musical tone control data. The input device is capable of detecting the operation of the above mentioned switches. Additionally provided is a tone control data management device in which flag data is stored to indicate which of the above mentioned groups of musical tone control data have been selected, the flag data being updated any time one of the above mentioned switches corresponding to a group of musical tone control data has been operated. Also, a musical tone control device is provided such that based on the above mentioned flag data, musical tone control data is selected, and based on the selected musical tone control data, musical tone control is effected.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4448104 (1984-05-01), Hoshii
patent: 4475429 (1984-10-01), Suzuki
patent: 4538495 (1985-09-01), Sato
patent: 4984497 (1991-01-01), Inagaki et al.

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