Abstract: An electronic musical instrument having a keyboard has a sound wave-shape generating circuit comprised of a pitch ROM connected to the keyboard. A first selector is connected to the keyboard, and a second selector is connected to the pitch ROM. A drum rhythm sound pitch data generating circuit and a pitch forming circuit are each connected to the first and second selectors. A wave-shape memory and a noise rhythm sound forming circuit are each connected to the pitch forming circuit. A third selector is connected to the wave-shape memory and the noise rhythm sound forming circuit. An envelope counter is connected to the third selector and the output of the envelope counter is fed to an audio amplifier. In use, a play/rhythm switching signal is selectively applied to the first, second and third selectors so that both a drum rhythm sound and a noise rhythm sound can be generated using only the one wave-shape memory.

Abstract: In a keyboard instrument having white and black keys, the necessity for a player to depress black (sharp or flat) keys is eliminated by circuitry which memorizes which tones are to be automatically sharped or flatted when a corresponding white key is depressed.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument in which a plurality of musical waveforms are obtained by a time-sharing style of multi-channels according to key data input from a keyboard. A wave-shape memory memorizes a plurality of wave-shape data representative of basic one cycle waveforms of different musical wave shapes. A musical instrument selecting circuit designates the a kind of wave-shape for each of the channels which is to be read out from the wave-shape memory, and a sound effect selecting circuit designates the kind of effect of each of the channels. A pitch forming circuit generates pitch data for reading of the wave-shape memory in each of the channels according to the key data and output data from the sound effect selecting circuit.