Abstract: A specific type of a human operator's gesture (such as a downward, upward or lateral swinging movement) and its movement amount (such as a speed or acceleration of the movement) is detected by a movement detector. The detected movement amount is compensated in accordance with the detected movement type, and various factors to control dynamics of a music performance (such as tone volume, color, pitch, effect etc.) are variably controlled on the basis of the compensated movement amount. At least one of minimal and maximal values indicative of the operator's repetitive gesture is selectively extracted from the output of the movement detector so that the performance tempo is controlled on the basis of a particular time point at which the selected minimal or maximal value has been extracted.

Abstract: A performance control apparatus is provided to control a manner of performance played by an electronic musical apparatus. Herein, sensors are provided to sense a swing motion of a baton which is swung by a human operator in response to time of music to be played (e.g., triple time). Then, a peak is detected from outputs of the sensors in accordance with a peak detection process using a fuzzy inference process. A kind of the swing motion is discriminated by effecting another fuzzy inference process on a result of the peak detection process. Concretely, the kind of the swing motion is discriminated as one of predetermined motions which are determined specifically with respect to time of the music. Performance control information is created based on the discriminated kind of the swing motion. Thus, a tempo and/or dynamics of performance is controlled in response to the performance control information.

Abstract: A tempo control signal is generated in response to operation of an operator. A plurality of kinds of tempo control data are stored for controlling tempo of automatic performance of a musical piece as the automatic performance of the musical piece proceeds when automatic performance data is reproduced. The tempo of the automatic performance of the musical piece is controlled based on a selected one of the plurality of kinds of tempo control data and the tempo control signal generated in response to the operation of the operator.

Abstract: An automatic performance control apparatus provides a hand controller which contains gyro sensors in X, Y directions. The gyro sensors are employed to accurately detect hand-swing motion applied to the hand controller without being affected by gravity. When the hand controller is swung by a human operator like a conductor's baton, angular velocity applied to the hand controller is detected based on detection values of the gyro sensors. The angular velocity becomes bottom at a change point of direction in a locus of the hand-swing motion of the hand controller; and a peak of the angular velocity appears between bottoms. So, peak detection process is performed on the angular velocity to determine a beat timing designated by the human operator. If the peak is detected, beat-timing detection data are automatically created and are transmitted to an electronic musical instrument having an automatic performance function.

Abstract: An electronic musical tone controller having an input operator for inputting a degree of a sensory expression representing the quality of a musical tone and generating an input parameter, a controller for controlling an electrical parameter and a circuit parameter for controlling a waveform of a signal of the musical tone, a musical tone signal generator for generating a signal of the musical tone in accordance with the electrical parameter and the circuit parameter, and a logical calculation unit for performing a fuzzy calculation and generating an output parameter for controlling the electrical parameter and the circuit parameter, by using the input parameter generated by the input operator unit.

Abstract: The electronic musical instrument includes a detecting unit, an excitation signal generator and a tone generator. The detecting unit detects body action to produce an action signal representative of the detected body action. The detecting unit includes a sensor element directly attached to a given part of a player's body for detecting the body action of that part. The excitation signal generator produces an excitation signal according to the action signal. The tone generator is one of a delayed feedback type, receives the excitation signal, and generates a musical tone signal according to a designated tone pitch. The tone generator includes a delay element for delaying the excitation signal by a given time corresponding to the designated tone pitch, and a feedback path for feeding back the delayed excitation signal to the delay element.

Abstract: A controller for controlling a plurality of parameters to be used by a physical model tone signal synthesizer electronically simulating a tone generating mechanism of a natural musical instrument. In accordance with musical performance signals such as dynamics and tone color entered by a player, musical instrument playing parameters such as breath and embouchure, or bow speed and bow pressure, are generated by using correlation functions.

Abstract: In order to simulate sounds of an acoustic musical instrument such as a bowed stringed instrument, an electronic musical instrument employs a musical tone control apparatus which at least contains an operating device and a detecting circuit. Herein, when operating the operating device which can be operated in a two-dimensional area, the detecting circuit detects operation information corresponding to an operating position or an operating displacement of the operating device. Then, velocity information is generated based on the operation information. Thereafter, a musical tone is generated in response to a musical characteristic corresponding to the velocity information under a condition where the operating device is now operating. Preferably, the operating device is configured by a digitizer on which surface an electronic pen is moved two-dimensionally by the performer. Thus, it is possible to impart the varied performance expression to the musical tone to be generated.

Abstract: An automatic performance apparatus has a memory, a reading out circuit, a parameter creating circuit, and a tone generating circuit. Initially, basic performance data corresponding to the basic performance of a musical piece and musical expression data corresponding to musical expression to be imparted to the basic performance are stored in the memory according to the progress of the musical piece. Next, when the basic performance data and musical expression data are read out from the memory by the reading out circuit in due order, the parameter including musical expression is created based on the read out basic performance data and musical expression data in the parameter creating circuit. Accordingly, this parameter is supplied to the tone generating circuit and a musical tone signal to which musical expression is imparted is formed in the tone generating circuit.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operator such as a bar-like touch operator having a play position to be designated, which play position is arranged in a predetermined direction thereof, a tone pitch designation circuit for generating tone pitch information corresponding to the play position, a tone generation designation operator such as keys in a keyboard for generating tone generation designation information in accordance with a tone generation designation operation, and a tone generator for generating a tone signal corresponding to the tone pitch information provided by the tone pitch designation operator in response to the tone generation designation information provided by the tone generation designation operator.

Abstract: An automatic performance apparatus stores performance technique designating data and an automatic performance data in a sequence memory, and performance technique data which varies in a lapse of time in a performance data memory to reduce the amount of sequence memory. When the performance technique designating data is detected during the performance, the performance technique data corresponding to the detected performance technique designating data is read out. The performance technique data controls musical tones specified by the automatic performance data. Thus, various performance technique can be realized with a small amount of sequence data.

Abstract: A touch controller according to the present invention can allow both wide expression and easy play of an electronic musical instrument by controlling a degree of the initial touch effect based on performance data in real time. According to the present invention, a width of a tone volume or an attack speed of a musical tone which can be controlled according to initial touch data is controlled in real time based on another performance data. As another performance data, an elapse time from a key OFF event of an immediately preceding performance tone or an elapse time from a key ON event of an immediately preceding performance tone may be used.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument which comprises: manipulator for defining a manipulation region of at least one dimension and for achieving performance manipulation within the manipulation region; position detector for detecting the position of performance manipulation within the manipulation region; arithmetic operation unit for calculating information pertaining to the direction and velocity of movement from the time change of the position of performance manipulation; tone signal generator for generating a tone signal using the information pertaining to the direction and velocity information as a parameter of controlling the tone signal; and latch unit for latching information pertaining to at least one of the direction and velocity of the movement, wherein the tone signal generator generates a tone signal using said information latched by the latch unit when the latch unit is operated.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument has an electronic sound source of a physical model simulating the sound mechanism of an acoustic mechanical instrument, in particular, a stringed instrument of the bowing type. The electronic sound source is controlled according to tone pitch information and tone information determining a characteristic of a musical tone to be generated. A keyboard is provided as a data input device by which tone pitch is designated and on which a performance manner is expressed via initial touch and after touch. A memory stores two sets of performance information, each set containing bowing force and bowing velocity information. An interpolating unit operates to access the memory for carrying out interpolation between the two sets of performance information according to the performance manner, and produces respective interpolated performance information regarding bowing force and bowing velocity information effective to control the artificial sound source.

Abstract: Tone control of an electronic musical instrument is provided using fuzzy inferences for determining musical tone control parameters such as pitch, sounding level, effect, overtone composition, playing methods, etc. Several different kinds of play information are derived from controls operated by the performer and selectively taken into account using fuzzy inference rules to derive the musical tone control parameters. Several different types of play information, such as initial touch, after touch, key-on time, etc., may thus be combined to provide delicate nuances to the musical performance providing a more natural sounding tone and providing the capability to give the musical tone an expression corresponding to a method or technique of a musical performance.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument suitable for synthesizing musical tones, comprises a musical tone control apparatus for generating velocity data and a musical tone generator for generating a musical tone signal having musical tone characteristics according to the velocity data. The musical tone control apparatus comprises an operation member which can be movably operated, a detector for detecting operation data according to an operation position or displacement amount of the operation member along its moving direction, a conversion memory for converting the operation data outputted from the detector into velocity data, and a control circuit for controlling musical tone characteristics on the basis of the velocity data outputted from the conversion memory.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument has a fuzzy inferring function. The instrument is provided with a rule storage memory for storing a plurality of fuzzy rules each of which is selectable. The instrument fuzzy-infers musical tone control parameters, such as a control amount of amplitude fluctuation, a control amount of pitch fluctuation, a control amount of noise or the like, based on the inputted playing data according to selected fuzzy rules. The instrument has a fuzzy rule input device for inputting desirable fuzzy rules which are used as a part of the stored plurality of fuzzy rules.

Abstract: The electronic musical instrument, which is suitable for generating sustaining tone of a rubbed string instrument, has a manipulator for achieving performance manipulation in a linear manipulation region or in a plane manipulation region to simulate the motion of a bow of the rubbed string instrument, and a processing circuit for applying smoothing treatment to signals given by the manipulator. The musical tone generated by the electronic musical instrument can be prevented from being contaminated with discordant sound caused by noise produced in performance manipulation.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having a manipulator which includes a hand manipulator and manipulation region capable of setting a reference point and/or reference axis, adapted for generating the musical tones of a rubbed string instrument. The distance from the reference point to the position of performance manipulation and/or the angle between the line connecting the reference point with position of performance manipulation and the reference axis may be calculated to produce parameters for controlling the musical tone signal, such as the bow pressure and the direction of the bow movement.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument capable of achieving a variety of performance mode. A manipulation region to be played with a hand manipulator is divided into regions of different performance modes. Tone signal parameters are generated differently depending on the selection of the performance region. Tone generator generates musical tone signals based on the tone signal parameters. The tone signal parameters are determined based on coordinate information on the manipulation region designated by the hand manipulator and pressure information applied on the coordinate position by the hand manipulator. The tone signal parameters comprise velocity information, pressure information and tone pitch information.