Captivation Musicals

Electronic musical instrument with semi-automatic playing function
2009-09-22 00:00:00
h4>AbstractIn an electronic musical instrument, playing data are produced by depressing a key in a keyboard, and divided into plural groups. At least one of the semi-automatic playing channels processes sound data of a musical piece read out of a memory to generate musical tones in synchronism with the playing data of at least one group. The sound data may be corrected according to sound correcting data before being used to generate musical tones.Claims

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic musical instrument comprising:

playing data generating means for production of playing data in response to an action on a playing controller;

musical piece data memory means for storing musical piece data comprising a series of musical sound data units;

separating means for dividing the playing data into a plurality of groups according to a predetermined reference; and

at least one semi-automatic playing means responsive to each said production of playing data in at least one of the plurality of groups, for reading a sequence of sound data units of the musical piece data out of the musical piece data memory means, said sound data units which are read out being determined by the group that the playing data belongs to, and ...