Music – Instruments
Patent
1977-10-17
1979-11-20
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
G10H 100, G10H 500
Patent
active
041746490
ABSTRACT:
An electronic musical instrument which has a key assignor or assignors of one or more channels for generating and temporarily storing key code corresponding to key depression and release, respectively, a memory for storing waveshape information such as inclination and amplitude variations of a required musical waveshape divided into a plurality of periods so as to read out the waveshape information corresponding to the key code, a plurality of tone source devices, each including waveshape generators of different sound ranges respectively corresponding to keyboard switches in the same channel of each key assignor, the tone source device reading out the waveshape information from the memory on a time divided basis to generate from the waveshape generators waveshapes of different frequencies based on the read out waveshape information, and means for simultaneously actuating the corresponding waveshape generators by the key code from the key assignor and coupler information.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3844379 (1974-10-01), Tomisawa et al.
patent: 3979989 (1976-09-01), Tomisawa et al.
Ezawa Sadaaki
Hashizume Hikaru
Kameyama Seiji
Kondo Tatsunori
Kugisawa Toshio
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
Witkowski Stanley J.
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