Electronic musical instrument with pitch alteration function

Details Electronic musical instrument with pitch alteration function Electronic musical instrument with pitch alteration function

1989-01-24

1990-07-10

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84709, 84737, 84477R, G09B 1504, G10H 1053, G10H 700

Patent

active

049399756

ABSTRACT:
The present electronic musical instrument can apply to various electronic musical instruments, such as an electronic wind instrument, electronic keyboard instrument and electronic string instrument. Pitch alteration width data with a predetermined pitch difference with respect to a tone being presently generated is stored in advance in a memory section, and by alternately performing the following two operations thereby to ensure a trill performance with a pitch having an arbitrary pitch alteration width by a simple pitch alteration operation. (1) A predetermined musical tone is generated at the presently-designated pitch by the pitch designation operation executed with respect to a pitch designating section. (2) A predetermined musical tone is generated at a pitch higher or lower than the presently-designated pitch, in accordance with the pitch alteration width data, by the pitch alteration designating operation executed with respect to a pitch alteration designating section.

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patent: 4050343 (1977-09-01), Moog
patent: 4203338 (1980-05-01), Vidas
patent: 4704682 (1987-11-01), Clynes

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