Electronic musical instrument having an ad-libbing function

Details Electronic musical instrument having an ad-libbing function Electronic musical instrument having an ad-libbing function

1989-12-01

1993-04-27

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84637, G10H 700, G10H 140

Patent

active

052064476

ABSTRACT:
An electronic keyboard or similar electronic musical instrument having an automatic rhythm playing function and an ad-libbing function. The instrument includes keys to which an ad-libbing function is assigned. When one presses any of the ad-libbing keys on the keyboard, the instrument allows the operator to feel as if the operator were performing an ad-lib. Various kinds of ad lib plays are available by looping note data representative of a single melody or by transforming the note data to a plurality of melodies by chord detection.

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