Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1992-08-28
1994-03-29
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84637, 84DIG12, 84DIG22, G10H 138, G10H 142
Patent
active
052986772
ABSTRACT:
An automatic playing apparatus according to the present invention, stores, in an automatic playing pattern data memory, chord, bass, drum data for each of a plurality of intro, normal and ending patterns, and drum data for each of a plurality of fill-in patterns, and reads, when a fill-in is selected via an operation panel, chord data and bass data, stored for an intro, normal, or ending pattern data, and drum data, stored for a fill-in pattern, to perform automatic playing. Further, an automatic playing apparatus according to the present invention includes an automatic playing pattern data memory wherein loud fill-in pattern data and soft fill-in pattern data are stored, sets an intonation value using an intonation dial as the performance is developed, and performs automatic playing based on either loud fill-in pattern data, if the intonation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, or based on the soft fill-in pattern data, if the intonation value is smaller than the predetermined value.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4839810 (1989-06-01), Abe
patent: 5164531 (1992-11-01), Imaizumi et al.
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
Kawanami Kaoru
Mason, Jr. Joseph C.
Smith Ronald E.
Witkowski Stanley J.
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