Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1994-03-01
1995-05-09
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84622, 84645, G10H 106, G10H 118, G10H 700
Patent
active
054142091
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument comprising keyboard operators for generating keyboard data; panel operators for generating tone control data; memory means for storing the tone control data; switch means for changing a normal mode to an interrupt mode, and vice versa; control means for, when tone control data is produced in accordance with an operation of the panel operators, writing the tone control data into the memory means in the normal mode, and inhibiting the tone control data from beings written into the memory means in the interrupt mode; a tone generator for, when keyboard data is produced in accordance with an operation of the keyboard operators, producing a tone signal based on the keyboard data and the tone control data stored in the memory means; and transmission means for generating transmission data according to tone control data when the tone control data is produced in accordance with an operation of the panel operators and transmitting the transmission data outside the electronic musical instrument, and generating transmission data according to keyboard data when the keyboard data is produced in accordance with an operation of the keyboard operators and transmission means for transmitting the transmission data outside the electronic musical instrument.
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Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
Witkowski Stanley J.
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