Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1993-08-24
1995-06-27
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84661, 84663, 84DIG9, 84DIG10, G10H 1057, G10H 112, G10H 118
Patent
active
054281857
ABSTRACT:
A musical tone synthesizing apparatus synthesizes musical tones by simulating the tone generation construction of an acoustic musical instrument. The acoustic musical instrument comprises of a tone generating element and a tone generating operator for exciting the tone generating element, thereby creating reciprocally propagating vibration within the tone generating element. The musical tone synthesizing apparatus has a parameter producing portion which automatically produces a plurality of control parameters used for controlling a simulation of the acoustic musical instrument in response to operational information representing the operation applied to the acoustic musical instrument by a performer, musical tone synthesizing portion which synthesizes a musical tone of the acoustic musical instrument, wherein the operation of the musical tone synthesizing portion is controlled in accordance with the control parameters. The parameter producing portion includes, for example, keyboard apparatus having a keyboard. By adjusting the touch of key in keyboard, it is possible to variously control the musical tone by easy operation. Accordingly, the control parameters to be need for synthesizing a musical tone are easily inputted to the musical tone generating portion. In addition, the musical tone generating portion can generate a musical tone with easy operation regardless of the ease where complicated controlling the control parameters is needed.
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Fukui Mitsuru
Kunimoto Toshifumi
Witkowski Stanley J.
Yamaha Corporation
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