Timbre control apparatus for an electronic musical instrument

Details Timbre control apparatus for an electronic musical instrument Timbre control apparatus for an electronic musical instrument

1993-08-18

1995-04-04

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84626, 84627, G10H 1057, G10H 106

Patent

active

054039681

ABSTRACT:
Timbre control apparatus, for an electronic musical instrument that, in response to a tone-ON command, reads timbre data from storage memory where a plurality of timbre data to be employed have previously been stored, and produces musical tones in consonance with the timbre data. The timbre control apparatus has a first storage memory for storing first timbre data common to all tone ranges; a second storage memory for storing second timbre data inherent to specific tone ranges; a calculation circuit for, in response to a tone-ON command, performing a predetermined calculation employing the first timbre data read from the first storage memory and the second timbre data read from the second storage memory; and tone production circuit for producing a musical tone having a predetermined timbre in consonance with data calculated by the calculation circuit.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4450745 (1984-05-01), Nakada et al.
patent: 5027690 (1991-07-01), Wachi et al.
patent: 5160798 (1992-11-01), Morikawa et al.
patent: 5229533 (1993-07-01), Sakurai

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