Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1994-03-04
1995-07-04
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84613, 84DIG22, G10H 136, G10H 138
Patent
active
054302420
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument for generating musical tones based on part data and automatic performance data to thereby execute an automatic performance, comprising first memory means in which part data and automatic performance data corresponding to demonstration music pieces have been stored; a play buffer for storing the part data currently in use; second memory means for temporarily saving the contents of the play buffer; start instructing means for instructing a start of a performance of a demonstration music piece; first processing means for saving the currently used part data, stored in the play buffer, into the second memory means, and for reading out the part data corresponding to a demonstration music piece from the first memory means and for setting the read-out part data in the play buffer, when instructed by the start instructing means; automatic performance means for executing an automatic performance based on the part data, set in the play buffer by the first processing means, and the automatic performance data stored in the first memory means; and second processing means for restoring the part data, saved in the second memory means by the first processing means, into the play buffer when the automatic performance means stops executing an automatic performance.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4960030 (1990-10-01), Fujimori
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
Witkowski Stanley J.
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