Abstract: A sensor comprises a transmitter to transmit signals over a communication path, the sensor further capable to receive signals from the communication path, wherein the sensor is configured to communicate sensor data having a nibble data signal format at the transmitter in response to a trigger signal received at the sensor.

Abstract: The invention provides an actuator for actuating a pallet of a pipe organ under the command of a key of an organ. The actuator comprises a movable member, adapted to be connected to the pallet of the organ pipe and a magnetic plunger, mounted on the movable member. It also comprises an electromagnet having a gap within which the magnetic plunger can be inserted and moved, wherein the electromagnet when energized moves the member to thereby actuate the pallet. A controller unit controls a current in the electromagnet to provide a controlled actuation of the pallet that is proportional to a key dip of the key. It also provides for a system based on a digital serial link for controlling an assembly of organ pallets that are actuated by electromagnets.

Abstract: The invention provides an actuator for actuating a pallet of a pipe organ under the command of a key of an organ. The actuator comprises a movable member, adapted to be connected to the pallet of the organ pipe and a magnetic plunger, mounted on the movable member. It also comprises an electromagnet having a gap within which the magnetic plunger can be inserted and moved, wherein the electromagnet when energized moves the member to thereby actuate the pallet. A controller roller unit controls a current in the electromagnet to provide a controlled actuation of the pallet that is proportional to a key dip of the key. It also provide for a system based on a digital serial link for controlling an assembly of organ pallets that are actuated by electromagnets.

Abstract: An automatic accompanist produces tones for an accompaniment in synchronism with tones of melody produced through fingering of a human player; cue note data codes, which express tones produced in the melody, and cue time data codes, which express a lapse of time between the cue notes, are stored in a cue time track separately from an automatic accompanying track where key event data codes for the accompaniment and duration data codes each expressing a lapse of time between the key event codes; while the human player is fingering the melody, the automatic accompanist monitors the keys specified as the cue notes; if the human player does not depress the keys, the automatic accompanist stops the measurement of the lapse of time expressed by the duration data codes so as to make the accompaniment delayed.

Abstract: The present invention consists in a method and electronic device used to reproduce the sound of church organ flue pipes, by taking advantage of the physical modeling technique of acoustic instruments; it being an audio-digital synthesis system based on digital signal processors, which contains a program of physical simulation of the generation of the sound of organ flue pipes.

Abstract: A method for handling with polyphony limits in an electronic organ, that is provided with at least one keyboard, one pedalboard, a series of organ stops, which can be turned on by a user to determine which voices are assigned to each key and to each pedal, and with a sound module, which is provided with a number of independent sound generators; when a user turns on a number of organ stops exceeding a maximum number depending on the number of independent sound generators, some organ stops are automatically turned off according to a pre-determined selection rule, in order to have a number of really operating stops that does not exceed the mentioned maximum number.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument has a server section to enable instrument settings to be made by remote control from a terminal on a client side through a communications circuit such as the Internet, and thus makes it possible to easily carry out the setting and resetting of an electronic musical instrument for which specialized knowledge is required.

Abstract: An electronic device draws pictures with a plurality of color on a monitor 90. A sound making processing unit 108 reads a color displayed at a position commanded by a touch pen 28 and makes sounds corresponding to the read color. A movable body drawing unit 106 generates a movable body corresponding to a color displayed on the monitor 90 and draws the movable body so as to move the same corresponding to the color. Image processing can be conducted on pictures drawn on the monitor screen by game players.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for phase synchronizing tones in an electronic musical instrument. The apparatus includes a microprocessor having an input for receiving a signal representative of a selected note whereupon receipt of the signal, the microprocessor checks a set of available ranks to determine which of the available ranks is associated with the selected note. The apparatus further includes an oscillator which is established for each rank determined to be associated with the selected note such that each oscillator includes initializing parameters and initiating parameters which define the selected note and the associated rank. The apparatus also includes a plurality of tone engines for generating tones.

Abstract: Certain effects of pipe organ wind regulators and conductors, as well as certain effects of acoustic coupling of pipes within pipe organs are emulated in an electronic musical instrument. Digital signal processing is used to model the behavior of a pipe organ wind regulating and distributing system as a damped oscillator to which an input disturbance signal is applied. The disturbance signal is derived from the combined on or off state of notes associated with voice generators responsive to the model output. The output is further processed and used to control the absolute pitch of the voice generators. Response controllers regulate the response of the generators individually. By varying the response characteristic of each voice, the relative pitches of the voices diverge as more notes are played, achieving a psychoacoustic effect similar to the detuning produced by wind pressure variations and acoustic coupling among speaking pipes of a pipe organ.

Abstract: Classic organ sounds are produced by selecting plural loops of predetermined sound components, and combining the components in accordance with parameters readily adjusted by an operator, which parameters are maintained separately from the musical notes which are being sounded at any given time. In this way, the finishing of the organ sounds may be tailored to circumstances, such as particular organ sound qualities, particular organ styles and the like. Plural microprocessors allow organ sounds to be produced, and varied, in accordance with any desired finishing, under operator control.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument of the digital synthesis type that uses digital processing techniques to impart not only the desired harmonic structure and pitch, but also to impart the correct amplitude and envelope. Only after all of the harmonic structure processing, all amplitude scaling, and all panning/mixing has been performed in digital circuitry, are the four outputs converted by digital to analog converters into analog musical outputs. Part of the digital processing includes a digital scaling circuit using a barrel interpolator to scale each sample from 1/2 to 31/32 and a shift right register to scale each sample between 1 and 1/32,768.