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1. 1 operator for stopping reproduction of MIDI song data operated MRN1 lt 0 U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 7 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 11 S60 561 audio song operator instruction operator for starting reproduction of audio song data operated ARN1 1 operator for stopping reproduction of audio song data operated ARNI 0 return U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 8 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 12 display statement MIDI song has not been specified on display unit set tempo count value to initial value timing data indicative of tempo count value contained musical tone control event note on off control tone generator in accordance with event data event for starting or terminating audio song Yes U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 9 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 13 registration data contains audio song specifying display statement audio song has not been specified on display unit output audio song data to sound system in accordance with passage of time reproduction of audio song data completed FIG 14 MIDI song audio song ai 128 12h 12i 12j eni registration select display bank setting freeze Enia 12a 12c 12d 12e 12f U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 10 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 15 select registration bank registration B1 registration B2 registratio2. step S127 whether the reproduction of audio song data has been completed If the reproduction of audio song data has not been completed the CPU 21 gives No at step S127 and executes the process of step S129 The CPU 21 then tempo rarily terminates the audio song reproduction routine at step S130 Due to these processes the processing composed of steps S121 S122 S126 S127 and S129 is repeatedly executed until the reproduction of audio song data is com pleted controlling the reproduction of audio song data and updating the old audio running flag ARN2 Ifthe reproduction of audio song data has been completed the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S127 and sets the new audio running flag ARNI to 0 at step S128 The CPU 21 then executes the above described process of step S129 and tem porarily terminates the audio song reproduction routine at step S130 In this case therefore even if the audio song reproduction routine is carried out the reproduction of audio song data is terminated without executing the processes of steps S122 through 128 In addition to the above case the reproduction of audio song data is also terminated in a case where the new audio running flag ARNI is set to 0 during reproduction of audio song data by the process of step S64 of the audio song operator instructing routine shown in FIG 11 or the process of step S112 of the MIDI song reproduction routine shown in FIG 12 In the above described embodiment as
3. B4 registration bank B5 registration bank B10 FIG 4 tone color transposition MIDI song specifying audio song specifying MIDI song data other control parameters etc U S Patent FIG 5 FIG 6 Aug 11 2009 Sheet 4 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 S10 initial setting processing panel operation processing S12 keyboard performance processing S13 song data reproduction processing switch off Yes l S14 bank setting S20 processing display screen for selecting registration bank FIG 15 select registration bank registration data setting enter into registration operators l S26 Yes S21 S22 S23 S24 S25 S27 U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 5 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 7 selectively display registration data 1 to 4 in bank change contents of registration data S32 30 S31 S33 read registration data set entered in operated S41 registration operator into RAM read MIDI song data and audio song data specified by MIDI S42 song specifying data and audio song specifying data into RAM S43 U S Patent FIG 9 FIG 10 Aug 11 2009 Sheet 6 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 audio song data reading successively read a given amount of audio song into RAM S45 S46 MIDI song operator instruction operator for starting reproduction of MIDI song data operated MRN1
4. apparent from the above descriptions each registration data set contains a plu rality of control parameters MIDI song specifying data auto matic performance specifying data and audio song specify ing data voice specifying data enabling a user to specify the mode in which musical tones are generated MIDI song data and audio song data at once only by selecting a registration data set As a result the above embodiment enables the user to play a melody part while generating accompaniment tones on the basis of previously recorded voice data or to add an audio song or audio phrase as background music BGM or effect tones during a performance by the user or during reproduc tion of automatic performance tones on the basis of automatic performance data providing the user with enriched music In the above embodiment in addition audio song start event data is embedded in MIDI song data As a result the above embodiment realizes automatic reproduction of back ground music BGM and effect tones such as audio song and audio phrase at user s desired timing during an automatic performance on the basis of the MIDI song data Incarrying out the present invention furthermore it will be understood that the present invention is not limited to the 25 45 65 14 above described embodiment but various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention In the above embodiment for example a registrat
5. contained in MIDI song data the modified example enables the user to establish his her desired audio song specifying data to realize effective reproduction of the both data and facilitated syn chronous reproduction Since audio song specifying data is stored in MIDI song data along with timing data representa tive of timing at which a musical tone signal is generated in a song furthermore the modified example realizes automatic reproduction of background music BGM and effect tones such as audio song and audio phrase at user s desired timing during an automatic performance on the basis of the MIDI song data Inthe above modified example audio song specifying data is embedded in MIDI song data Conversely however MIDI song specifying data may be embedded in audio song data In this case the MIDI song specifying data is contained in administration data corresponding to the audio song data WAV data Furthermore the MIDI song specifying data may store timing data representative of the timing at which MIDI song data is reproduced In the above described embodiment furthermore MIDI song data contains note on event data note off event data musical tone control parameters and audio song start completion event data In addition to those however regis tration specifying data may be embedded in MIDI song data along with timing data in order to switch registration data sets during reproduction of automatic performance data In the abov
6. data represents the completion of generation of a musical tone signal key release on the keyboard 11 Note number data is the same as the one described in the case ofthe note on event data Audio song start event data represents the start of reproduction of audio song data Audio song comple tion event data represents the completion of reproduction of audio song data End data represents the completion of an automatic performance of a track Event data may include control parameters for controlling mode for generating musi cal tones tone color loudness effect and the like to change the mode in which musical tones are generated during an automatic performance The respective audio song files correspond to respective voice data strings each composed of a data string representa tive of voice signals For the present embodiment there are provided three files of a b and c Each of the audio song files is composed of administration data and voice data Adminis tration data is data on decoding required for reproducing voice data Voice data is digital audio data in which human voices voices of musical instruments and effect tones are digitally converted or digitally compressed Each ofthe registration data sets is composed of a plurality ofcontrol parameters for controlling the mode in which musi cal tone signals are generated the mode being specified through the use of the setting operators 12 on the operating panel In the present embodime
7. shown in FIG 11 The audio song operator instructing routine is started at step S60 When the user instructs to start reproduction of audio song data the CPU 21 sets by processes of steps S61 S62 a new audio running flag ARNI to 1 indicative of the state where audio song data is reproduced When the user instructs to stop reproduction of audio song data the CPU 21 sets by pro cesses of steps S63 S64 the new audio running flag ARNI to 0 indicative of the state where audio song data is not repro duced At the song data reproduction processing of step S14 in FIG 5 a MIDI song reproduction routine shown in FIG 12 and an audio song reproduction routine shown in FIG 13 are repeatedly executed at given short time intervals The MIDI song reproduction routine is started at step S100 At step S101 the CPU 21 determines whether the reproduction of MIDI song data has been currently instructed by determining whether the new MIDI running flag MRNI is at 1 If the new MIDI running flag MRNI is at 0 to indicate that the reproduction of MIDI song data is not currently instructed the CPU 21 gives No at step S101 and sets at step S115 an old MIDI running flag MRN2 to 0 indicated by the new MIDI running flag MRN1 The CPU 21 then temporarily terminates the MIDI song reproduction routine at step S116 US 7 572 968 B2 11 If the new MIDI running flag MRNI is at 1 to indicate that the reproduction of MIDI so
8. FIG 5 The bank setting processing routine shown in FIG 6 is started at step S20 At step S21 a screen for selecting a registration bank see FIG 15 is dis played on the display unit 13 The selection of a registration bank is done by operating a bank selecting operator 12a shown in FIG 14 which enlarges part ofthe setting operators 12 On the screen for selecting a registration bank if the user operates the setting operators 12 such as one click of a mouse on a desired registration bank displayed on the registration bank selecting screen the desired registration bank is selected Shown in FIG 15 is a state in which a registration bank B7 has been selected After the selection ofa registration bank if the user operates the setting operators 12 to change the name of the registration bank the name of the selected registration bank is changed by the process of step S23 At this state if the user operates a display setting operator 125 the CPU 21 executes at step S24 a registration data setting routine shown in FIG 7 to allow modification to any one of the registration data sets four sets in the present embodiment in the selected registration bank The modifica tion to registration data can be done only to the registration banks B4 through B10 provided in the external storage device 25 The registration data setting routine 1s started at step S30 At step S31 the CPU 21 selectively displays the contents contents of control parameter
9. a2 United States Patent Komano US007572968B2 US 7 572 968 B2 Aug 11 2009 10 Patent No 45 Date of Patent 54 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 75 Inventor Takeshi Komano Iwata JP 73 Assignee Yamaha Corporation Hamamatsu Shi JP Notice Subject to any disclaimer the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U S C 154 b by 219 days 21 Appl No 11 373 572 22 Filed Mar 10 2006 65 Prior Publication Data US 2006 0219090 Al Oct 5 2006 30 Foreign Application Priority Data Mar 31 2005 By Casual asa 2005 103404 51 Int CI GI0H 7 00 2006 01 52 US Cl aaa 84 609 84 615 84 622 58 Field of Classification Search 84 600 609 84 645 615 622 See application file for complete search history 56 References Cited U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 5 138 925 A 8 1992 Koguchi etal 84 609 5 155 286 A 10 1992 Saito et al 5 248 843 A 9 1993 Billings 5 668 334 A 9 1997 Kuribayashi et al 84 602 5 792 971 A 8 1998 Timis etal 84 609 5 915 237 A 6 1999 Bossetal 704 270 1 6 143 973 A 11 2000 Kikuchi 84 645 6 281 424 B1 8 2001 Koike et al 84 636 7 030 309 B2 4 2006 Kubita 2004 0055442 Al 3 2004 Terada bank setting processing display screen for selecting registration bank select registration bank registration data setting enter int
10. al corresponding to the note number data and the velocity data If the event data is note off event data the CPU 21 instructs the tone generator 14 to terminate the generation of a digital musical tone signal corresponding to currently generated note number data Due to these processes similarly to the above described performance on the key board 11 the tone generator 14 starts generating a digital musical tone signal in response to note on event data or terminates the generation of a digital musical tone signal in response to note off event data In a case where the event data is musical tone control event data for controlling tone color and loudness control parameters composing the event data are supplied to the tone generator 14 so that the tone color loudness and the like of a digital musical tone signal to be generated by the tone generator 14 are controlled on the basis of the supplied control parameters Due to these processes 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 12 music that is automatically performed on the basis of MIDI song data automatic performance data specified by MIDI song specifying data is played At step S111 the CPU 21 then determines whether the event data corresponding to the timing data is an event for starting an audio song or an event for terminating an audio song If the event data is not for starting or terminating an audio song the CPU 21 proceeds to step S113 If the event data is
11. an event for starting an audio song the CPU 21 sets at step S112 the new audio running flag ARNI to 1 If the event data is an event for terminating an audio song the CPU 21 sets at step S112 the new audio running flag ARNI to 0 Dueto these processes a change to the new audio running flag ARNI is made by the reproduction of MIDI song data At step S113 the CPU 21 determines whether the reading of MIDI song data has reached end data If not the CPU 21 gives No at step S113 and executes the above described process of step S115 The CPU 21 then temporarily termi nates the MIDI song reproduction routine at step S116 Due to these processes the processing composed of steps S102 S105 and S107 through S113 is repeatedly executed until the reading of MIDI song data is completed controlling the gen eration of musical tones and updating the new MIDI running flag MRNI If the reading of MIDI song data has reached end data the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S113 and sets the new MIDI running flag MRNI to 0 at step S114 The CPU 21 then executes the above described process of step S115 and tem porarily terminates the MIDI song reproduction routine at step S116 In this case therefore even if the MIDI song reproduction routine is carried out the reproduction of MIDI song data is terminated without executing the processes of steps S102 through S114 In addition to the above case the reproduction of MIDI song data is al
12. ates by the process of step S33 the selected registra tion data in the external storage device 25 to the state dis played on the display unit 13 i e the contents of the regis tration data shown in FIG 16 After the modification to the registration data in the external storage device 25 if the user operates the setting operators 12 to terminate the setting ofthe registration data the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S34 and terminates the registration data setting routine at step S35 The bank setting processing routine shown in FIG 6 will now be described again At the display state of FIG 15 i e at the display state in which a registration bank has been selected if the user operates the setting operators 12 to enter registration data sets into four registration operators 12c to 12f see FIG 14 contained in the setting operators 12 four registration data sets in the selected registration bank are entered in the registration operators 12c to 12f respectively The data representative of the entry of the registration data into the registration operators 12c to 12fis stored in the RAM 24 In the display state of FIG 15 more specifically by a double click with a mouse on any one of the displayed reg istration banks B1 to B10 for example the entry of the registration data sets into the registration operators 12c to 12f is instructed If the user then operates the setting operators 12 to terminate the registration bank setting proces
13. atic performance data string or voice data string wherein the electronic musical instrument con trols mode in which a musical tone is generated emits an automatic performance tone and generates a voice signal on the basis of the control parameters the automatic perfor mance data string and the voice data string loaded into the temporary storage portion Inthis feature ofthe present invention configured as above each registration data set contains not only a plurality of control parameters but also one of two types of specifying data the automatic performance specifying data and the voice specifying data while the other ofthe two types of specifying data is included in automatic performance data or voice data specified by the one of the specifying data Only by selecting aregistration data set therefore the user can specify the mode in which musical tones are generated automatic performance data and voice data at once As a result this feature of the present invention also enables the user to play a melody part while generating accompaniment tones on the basis of voice data or to add an audio song or audio phrase as background music BGM or effect tones during a performance by the user or during reproduction of automatic performance tones on the basis of automatic performance data providing the user with enriched music In addition since a registration data set contains only one ofthe two types of specifying data with the other specify
14. bodiment is provided with seven registration banks of B4 through B10 each capable of having four regis tration data sets The respective registration data sets are configured similarly to those stored in the ROM 23 The MIDI song files audio song files and registration data stored in the external storage device 25 may be created by a user through program processing that will be described later Alternatively those files and data stored in the external storage device 25 may be loaded via the communications interface 26 from the external apparatus 31 or an external apparatus connected with the communications network 32 In the RAM 24 as shown in FIG 4 there are the area for writing a set of registration data see FIG 2 and the area for storing MIDI song data automatic performance data and audio song data voice data respectively specified by MIDI song specifying data and audio song specifying data con tained in the registration data set In the RAM 24 there are also stored other control parameters for controlling the operation of the electronic musical instrument The operation of the electronic musical instrument config ured as described above will now be described with reference to flowcharts shown in FIG 5 through FIG 13 When a user turns on a power switch not shown of the electronic musical instrument the CPU 21 starts executing a main program at step S10 shown in FIG 5 At step S11 the CPU 21 executes processing for establis
15. c tronic wind instruments What is claimed is 1 An electronic musical instrument comprising an automatic performance data storage portion for storing a plurality of automatic performance data strings each composed of a performance data string for controlling generation of a string of musical tone signals that form a song a voice data storage portion for storing a plurality of voice data strings each composed of a data string representa tive of a voice signal a plurality of performance operators playable by a user for causing the generation of musical tone signals a plurality of setting operators provided on an operating panel for setting a plurality of control parameters that define a mode of musical tone signals generated by the user playing said performance operators a registration data storage for storing a plurality of regis tration data sets that are each composed of the plurality of control parameters automatic performance specify ing data for specifing one of the plurality of automatic performance data strings and voice specifying data for specifying one of the plurality of voice data strings a plurality of registration operators for selecting the plu rality of registration data sets and a selection section for when any one of the plurality of registration operators is operated simultaneously selecting a plurality of control parameters an automatic performance data string and a voice data string wherein th
16. e data may be then loaded into the temporary storage portion at every given timing at every time a given amount of voice data written into the temporary storage portion has been repro duced with remaining voice data in the temporary storage portion that has not been reproduced falling below a given amount at idle times during other program processing or the like Even in a case where the amount of voice data is so massive as to require much time to load the data into the temporary storage portion this feature avoids insufficient storage area for the voice data in the temporary storage por tion as well as prolonged time required until reproduction of the voice data 40 45 50 60 4 Furthermore the present invention can be embodied not only as an invention of an apparatus but also as an invention ofa computer program and a method applied to the apparatus BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG 1 is a block diagram showing the general arrangement of an electronic musical instrument according to an embodi ment of the present invention FIG 2 is a memory map showing data stored in a ROM of the electronic musical instrument FIG 3 is a memory map showing data stored in a hard disk of the electronic musical instrument FIG 4 is a memory map showing data stored in a RAM of the electronic musical instrument FIG 5 is a flowchart showing a main program executed on the electronic musical instrument FIG 6isaflowchart showin
17. e described embodiment furthermore timing data representing the timing of an event in absolute time is applied for MIDI song data Instead of absolute timing data however relative timing data representative of relative time from the previous event timing to the current event timing may be employed In the above described embodiment furthermore a regis tration data set is specified by use ofthe registration operators 12c to 12f In addition to the registration operators however sequence data for successively switching registration data sets may be stored in the RAM 24 so that the sequence data is read out with the passage of time to successively switch the US 7 572 968 B2 15 registration data sets Furthermore the setting operators 12 may include a registration switching operator to enable the user to successively switch at each operation ofthe operator the registration data sets on the basis of the sequence data In the above described embodiment furthermore the present invention is applied to the electronic musical instru ment having the keyboard 11 as a performance operating portion In replacement for the keys however the present invention may be applied to an electronic musical instrument having mere push switches touch switches or the like as performance operators for defining pitch Particularly the present invention can be applied to other electronic musical instruments such as electronic stringed instruments and ele
18. e plurality of control parameters are included in a registration data set selected by an operated registra tion operator wherein the automatic performance data string is specified by automatic performance specifying data that is included in the registration data set selected by the oper ated registration operator and wherein the voice data string is specified by voice specify ing data included in the registration data set selected by the operated registration operator 2 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 wherein the selection portion includes a registration control portion for loading into a temporary storage portion when one of the registration data sets is selected the selected plu rality of control parameters the selected automatic per formance data string and the selected voice data string wherein the electronic musical instrument controls mode of the musical tone signals generated by user playing of the performance operators on the basis ofthe control param eters loaded into the temporary storage generates auto matic performance musical tone signals on the basis of the automatic performance data string loaded into the 10 30 40 45 50 55 16 temporary storage and generates a voice signal on the basis of the voice data string loaded into the temporary storage portion 3 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 2 wherein the registration control portion loads into the t
19. empo rary storage portion at the time of selecting a registration data set from among the registration data sets only the top of voice data specified by the voice specifying data 4 An electronic musical instrument comprising an automatic performance data storage portion for storing a plurality of automatic performance data strings each composed of a performance data string for controlling generation ofa string of musical tone signals that form a song a voice data storage portion for storing a plurality of voice data strings each composed of a voice data string repre sentative of a voice signal a plurality of performance operators play able by a user to cause the generation of musical tone signals a plurality of setting operators provided on an operating panel for setting a plurality of control parameters that define a mode of musical tone signal generate by user playing of the performance operators a registration data storage for storing a plurality of regis tration data sets that are each composed of the plurality of control parameters and one oftwo types of specifying data that respectively specify one of the plurality of automatic performance data strings and one of the plu rality of the voice data strings wherein the other one of the two types of specifying data is included in one ofthe automatic performance data string and the voice data string specified by one of the two types of specifying data a plurality of registrat
20. eration of a reproduction start switch causes generation of automatic performance tones on the basis ofthe automatic performance data set specified by the automatic performance specifying data Inthe above described conventional apparatuses however voice data audio song data representative of voice signal cannot be automatically specified on the basis of registration data Therefore the conventional electronic musical instru ments are unable to play a melody part while generating accompaniment tones on the basis of previously recorded voice data or to add an audio song or audio phrase as back ground music BGM or effect tones during a performance by auser or during reproduction of automatic performance tones on the basis of automatic performance data SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention was accomplished to solve the above described problem and an object thereof is to provide an electronic musical instrument in which not only musical tone control parameters and automatic performance data but also voice data are automatically specified by registration data in order to enable a user to select and control at once just by selecting a registration data set the mode for generating musical tones the automatic performance tones and the voice signals In order to achieve the above described object it is a fea ture of the present invention to provide an electronic musical instrument comprising a registration data storage portion
21. es is controlled in accordance with the control parameters with MIDI song data and audio song data being simulta neously reproduced in accordance with the selected registra tion data set 8 Claims 12 Drawing Sheets S20 S21 22 23 24 25 US 7 572 968 B2 Sheet 1 of 12 Aug 11 2009 U S Patent 4 918 GH 69IAop 9321035 yno eoegj1ejul Suoneoiunuuoo 1oM3eu suongoiunuuuio e snie4Jedde 6l LE pu4e3xe 403e4eue8 U0 we sAs punos Jexeeds e61 47 Jeu Noo o 3uoo Aejdsip yun e dsip EI TDIA fid9 Pno Sunoe3ep LI SJ01e4edo Sues vc WYJ UNDUIO Bulqoe13ep 9I IH paeogAex US 7 572 968 B2 Sheet 2 of 12 11 2009 Aug U S Patent eureuejy uita UORELLIOJUI uonisodsuea Lin aed dues oe casi Cg yueq uonengstge ZA X4ueq uoneasiso4 LE yueg uoneasiseA4 e A1s 1 10 09 euo 9 ep duos oipne q 9jij duos oipne e ally duos oipne sape GUINEA L39841 vx pun Den eyep emul quene uone duuoo pes 3uos oipne V TE 3uos QIN sueJdo4d Suisseoo4d e ep 31eseJd WOU Jequunu e3ou 4jo e1ou POOJOA Jequunu e3ou uo e3ou e3ep Jeu C OI U S Patent Aug 11 2009 Sheet 3 of 12 US 7 572 968 B2 FIG 3 MIDI song file D MIDI song file E MIDI song file F audio song file d audio song file f registration bank
22. for storing a plurality of registration data sets each composed of a plurality of control parameters for controlling mode in which a musical tone is generated the mode being defined by 0 40 45 50 60 65 2 a plurality of setting operators provided on an operating panel an automatic performance data storage portion for storing a plurality of automatic performance data strings each composed of a performance data string for controlling gen eration of a string of musical tone signals that form a song anda voice data storage portion for storing a plurality of voice data strings each composed of a data string representative of a voice signal wherein each of the registration data sets includes automatic performance specifying data for specify ing any one of the automatic performance data strings and voice specifying data for specifying any one ofthe voice data strings In this case voice data i e audio song data indicates audio data in which for example human singing voices voices of musical instruments and effect tones natural tones and synthesized tones are digitally converted or digitally compressed As for the audio data audio signals can be repro duced merely by use ofa digital to analog converter Further more the electronic musical instrument may include a regis tration control portion for loading into a temporary storage portion when one ofthe registration data sets is selected not only control parame
23. g a bank setting process routine executed at a panel operation process in the main program FIG 7 is a flowchart showing a registration data setting routine executed at the panel operation process in the main program FIG 8 is a flowchart showing a registration data reading routine executed at the panel operation process in the main program FIG 9 is a flowchart showing an audio song data reading routine executed at the panel operation process in the main program FIG 10 is a flowchart showing a MIDI song operator instructing routine executed at the panel operation process in the main program FIG 11 is a flowchart showing an audio song operator instructing routine executed at the panel operation process in the main program FIG 12 is a flowchart showing a MIDI song reproduction routine executed at a song data reproduction process in the main program FIG 13 is a flowchart showing an audio song reproduction routine executed at the song data reproduction process in the main program FIG 14 is a magnified view of part of an operating panel of the electronic musical instrument FIG 15 is a screen for selecting a registration bank dis played on a display unit ofthe electronic musical instrument FIG 161sa screen for setting registration data displayed on the display unit of the electronic musical instrument and FIG 17 is a memory map showing data stored in a ROM of an electronic musical instrument according to a modified exam
24. g data but the reproduction has been already started on the other hand the CPU 21 gives No at step S105 and increments at step S107 the tempo count value indicative of the progression of a song After the process of step S106 or step S107 the CPU 21 determines at step S108 whether MIDI song data contains timing data indicative of tempo count value If timing data indicative of tempo count value is not contained the CPU 21 gives No at step S108 and executes the above described process of step S115 The CPU 21 then temporarily termi nates the MIDI song reproduction routine at step S116 If timing data indicative of tempo count value is contained the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S108 and determines at step S109 whether event data corresponding to the contained timing data is musical tone control event data i e note on event data note off event data or other musical tone control event data for controlling tone color or loudness If the event data is not musical tone control event data the CPU 21 proceeds to step S111 If the event data is musical tone control event data the CPU 21 outputs at step S10 the musical tone control event data to the tone generator 14 to control the mode in which a musical tone signal is generated More specifically If the event data is note on event data the CPU 21 supplies note number data and velocity data to the tone generator 14 and instructs to start generating a digital musical tone sign
25. g panel displaying characters numerals graphics etc What is displayed on the display unit 13 is controlled by a display control circuit 18 that is connected to the bus 15 The tone generator 14 which is connected to the bus 15 generates digital musical tone signals on the basis of perfor mance data and various musical tone control parameters sup plied under the control of a later described CPU 21 and outputs the signals to a sound system 19 The tone generator 14 also includes an effect circuit for adding various musical effects such as chorus and reverb to the above generated digital musical tone signals The sound system 19 which includes digital to analog converters amplifiers and the like converts the above supplied digital musical tone signals to analog musical tone signals and supplies the analog musical tone signals to speakers 19a To the sound system 19 there are also supplied digital voice signals from the CPU 21 through the bus 15 The sound system 19 also converts the supplied digital voice signals to analog voice signals and supplies to the speakers 19a The speakers 19a emit musical tones and voices corresponding to the supplied analog musical tone signals and analog voice signals The electronic musical instrument also includes a CPU 21 timer 22 ROM 23 and RAM a temporary storage portion 24 that are connected to the bus 15 and compose the main body of a microcomputer The electronic musical instrument also has an exte
26. hing initial settings for activating the electronic musical instrument After the initial setting the CPU 21 repeatedly executes circulating processing consist ing of steps S12 to S15 until the power switch is turned off When the power switch is turned off the CPU 21 terminates the main program at step S16 While the circulating processing is in process by panel operation processing of step S12 the CPU 21 controls and changes in response to the user s operation on the setting operators 12 the mode in which the electronic musical instru ment operates particularly the mode in which musical tones are generated tone color loudness effect and the like Operations defined by registration data that directly relates to the present invention will be detailed later with reference to flowcharts showing routines shown in FIG 6 to FIG 11 At keyboard performance processing of step S13 the CPU 21 controls generation of musical tones in accordance with user s performance on the keyboard 11 More specifically when a key on the keyboard 11 is depressed performance 0 a 5 20 40 45 55 8 data composed of note on data representative of a key de pression note number data representative of the depressed key and velocity data representative of the velocity of the key depression is supplied to the tone generator 14 In response to the supplied performance data the tone generator 14 starts generating a digital musical tone
27. ing data being contained in automatic per formance data or voice data specified by the one of the speci fying data this feature of the present invention enables the userto establish the other specifying data at the disposal ofthe user to realize effective reproduction of the both data and facilitated synchronous reproduction It is still another feature of the invention to provide an electronic musical instrument wherein the one of the two types of specifying data is automatic performance specifying data while the other specifying data is voice specifying data the automatic performance data storage portion stores the performance data string along with timing data representative of a timing at which a musical tone signal is generated in a song and the voice specifying data is embedded in the per formance data string along with the timing data This feature of the invention realizes automatic reproduction of back ground music BGM and effect tones such as audio song and audio phrase at user s desired timing during an automatic performance on the basis of automatic performance data It is a further feature of the invention to provide an elec tronic musical instrument wherein the registration control portion loads into the temporary storage portion at the time of selecting a registration data set from among the registration data sets only the top part of voice data string specified by the voice specifying data In this case the remaining voic
28. io song specifying data If audio song specifying data is not contained the CPU 21 gives No at step S123 and at step S124 displays on the display unit 13 a statement saying audio song has not been specified At step 125 the CPU 21 sets the new audio running flag ARNI to 0 The CPU 21 then executes the above described process of step S129 and temporarily terminates the audio song reproduction routine at US 7 572 968 B2 13 step S130 In this case since No will be given at step S121 for the later processing the processes of steps S122 to S128 will not be carried out Next explained will be a case in which registration data in the RAM 24 contains audio song specifying data In this case after the determination of Yes at step S123 the CPU 21 successively supplies at step S126 audio song data digital voice data stored in the RAM 24 to the sound system 19 in accordance with passage of time The sound system 19 con verts the supplied digital voice data to analog voice signals and supplies the signals to the speakers 19a Due to these processes the speakers 19a emits voices corresponding to the audio song data Once the reproduction of audio song data is started the old audio running flag ARN2 is set to 1 by the process of step S129 After the process of step S122 as a result the process of step S126 is executed without the pro cess of step S123 After the process of step S126 the CPU 21 determines at
29. ion data set contains both MIDI song specifying data and audio song specifying data As shown in FIG 17 however the above embodiment may be modified such that a registration data set contains MIDI song specifying data only with audio song specifying data being embedded in MIDI song data auto matic performance data In this case audio song specifying data may be embedded in initial data contained in MIDI song data Alternatively track data may embed audio song speci fying data along with timing data as event data instead of or in addition to audio song start or completion event data In either case when MIDI song data is written into the RAM 24 at the time of specifying registration data the MIDI song data in the RAM 24 is searched for audio song specify ing data If audio song specifying data is found part of or entire audio song data that is specified by the audio song specifying data is read into the RAM 24 Alternatively the audio song specifying data may be read into the RAM 24 at the time of starting reproduction of MIDI song data or in synchronization with the reproduction of MIDI song data The above modified example also enables the user to specify the mode in which musical tones are generated auto matic performance data and voice data at once only by select ing a registration data set providing the user with enriched music as in the case of the above described embodiment In addition since audio song specifying data is
30. ion operators for selecting the plu rality of registration data sets and a selection portion for when any one of the plurality of registration operator is operated simultaneously select ing a plurality of control parameters an automatic per formance data string and a voice data string wherein the plurality of control parameters are included in a registration data set selected by an operated registra tion operator wherein one of the automatic performance data string and the voice data string is specified by one ofthe two types of specifying data included in the registration data set selected by the operated registration operator and wherein the other one of the automatic performance data string and the voice data string is specified by the other one of the two types of specifying data included in the automatic performance data string or voice data string specified by the one of the two types of specifying data 5 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 4 wherein the selection portion includes a registration con trol portion for loading into temporary storage portion when one of the registration data sets is selected the selected plurality of control parameters the selected automatic performance data string and the selected voice data string wherein the electronic musical instrument controls mode of the musical tone signals generated by user playing of the performance operators on the basis ofthe plurality of co
31. istration data storage portion the automatic performance data storage portion and the voice data storage portion wherein each of the registration data sets includes one of two type of specify ing data automatic performance specifying data for specify ing any one of automatic performance data strings and voice specifying data for specifying any one of voice data strings and the other of the two types of specifying data the auto matic performance specifying data and the voice specifying data is included in automatic performance data string or voice data string specitied by the one of the two types of specifying data In this case as well voice data indicates audio data in which for example human singing voices voices of musical instruments and effect tones are digitally converted or digi tally compressed Furthermore the electronic musical instru ment may include a registration control portion for loading into a temporary storage portion when one of the registration data sets is selected not only control parameters contained in the selected registration data set but also an automatic perfor mance data string or a voice data string specified by the one of the two types of specifying data contained in the selected US 7 572 968 B2 3 registration data set as well as loading into the temporary storage portion an automatic performance data string or a voice data string specified by the other specifying data included in the autom
32. it various programs and data from to outside Next explained will be data and programs that are previ ously stored in the ROM 23 and the external storage device 25 or transferred and stored in the RAM 24 Previously stored in the ROM 23 are as shown in FIG 2 a plurality of preset data units a plurality of processing programs a plurality of MIDI song files a plurality of audio song files a plurality of regis tration banks each having a plurality of registration data sets 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 6 and other data The preset data units are the data necessary for operations ofthe electronic musical instrument such as mode for generating musical tones The processing programs are the fundamental programs for making the CPU 21 active The MIDI song files are the file for storing an automatic performance data string composed of a performance data string for controlling generation of a string of musical tone signals that form a song For the present embodiment there are provided three demonstration files of files A B and C Each MIDI song file is composed of an initial data unit and a plurality of track data units e g 16 track data units The initial data unit is composed of control parameters about general matters of a song that are defined at the start of an automatic performance such as performance tempo style type of accompaniment loudness of musical tones loud ness balance between musical tone
33. may be written into the RAM 24 Alternatively only the top of the audio song data may be written into the RAM 24 In some cases more specifically the amount of audio song data voice data is massive resulting in insufficient storage area for the audio song data in the RAM 24 or prolonged time required until reproduction of the audio song data In such cases 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 10 therefore when a registration data set is specified by operat ing the registration operator 12c to 12for when a registration data set is specified in the other way that will be described later only the top of audio song data specified by audio song specifying data may be written into the RAM 24 As for the remaining audio song data the audio song data reading routine shown in FIG 9 is executed to read the remaining audio song data at every given timing at every time a given amount of voice data written into the RAM 24 has been reproduced by a later described process with remaining audio data in the RAM 24 that has not been reproduced falling below a given amount at idle times during other program processing or the like The audio song data reading routine is started at step S45 At step S46 the CPU 21 successively reads from the ROM 23 or the external storage device 25 a given amount of audio song data voice data specified by audio song specifying data and writes into the RAM 24 The CPU 21 then terminates the audi
34. n B3 registration B4 registration B5 registration B6 registration B8 registration B9 registration B10 US 7 572 968 B2 Sheet 11 of 12 Aug 11 2009 U S Patent 0 3aAvs A Aemgsuosy X 49SnAQH Buos opne OL A O uonisodsuean g A pur BUOSW X SSTAGHI uos jaw 6 A v pene isis 9 oug GT 0 wm A s Auouueu A HGH Sseupno Z A ped dump epodo A GumdpueB suopoeum l uoneasi3e4 JO 3ipe pue Aejdsip 1 48 9L DIA US 7 572 968 B2 Sheet 12 of 12 Aug 11 2009 U S Patent SJ9ujo eujeus ua UONELIOJUI 3ed 7 19 uonensi uonisodsued spa eg xXueq uongJajsigo4 od HUEG uongajsteo4 LE yueg uonensiso4 eyep uoneaysiunupe SulAzioeds Suos opne JUSAS JjO SzOU SUIT amp jep enu Jequinu 93ou 06300 pen pen eyep enu NOA Jequinu 93ou uo ejou swej uoneuLiosui ped US 7 572 968 B2 1 ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1 Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic musical instrument in which the mode for generating musical tones is controlled through the use of registration data composed of a plurality of control parameters for controlling the mode for generating musical tones the mode being specified by a plu rality of setting operators provided on an o
35. ng data has been currently instructed the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S101 and deter mines at step S102 whether registration data in the RAM 24 contains MIDI song specifying data If MIDI song specifying data is not contained the CPU 21 gives No at step S102 and at step S103 displays on the display unit 13 a statement saying MIDI song has not been specified At step S104 the CPU 21 also changes the new MIDI running flag MRNI to 0 The CPU 21 then executes the above described process of step 115 and temporarily terminates the MIDI song reproduc tion routine at step S116 In this case since No will be given at step S101 for the later processing the processes of steps 102 to S114 will not be carried out Next explained will be a case in which registration data in the RAM 24 contains MIDI song specifying data In this case after the determination of Yes at step S102 the CPU 21 determines at step S105 whether it is just the time to start reproducing MIDI song data by determining whether the old MIDI running flag MRN2 indicative of the previous instruc tion for reproduction of MIDI song data is at 0 If it is determined that it is just the time to start reproducing MIDI song data the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S105 At step S106 the CPU 21 then sets a tempo count value indicative of the progression of a song to the initial value If it is determined that it is not the time to start reproducing MIDI son
36. nt 12 sets of registration data US 7 572 968 B2 7 B1 1 B1 2 are provided for use in demonstration being classified under three registration banks B1 B2 and B3 Each registration data set includes a plurality of control parameters for controlling tone color of musical tones loudness of musi cal tones style type of accompaniment performance tempo transposition loudness balance between musical tones musical effect and the like Each registration data set also contains MIDI song specifying data and audio song specifying data MIDI song specifying data is the data for specifying a MIDI song file automatic performance data being composed of path information indicative ofthe location where the MIDI song file is stored and data representative of its filename Audio song specifying data is the data for speci fying an audio song file voice data being composed of path information indicative of the location where the audio song file is stored and data representative of its filename Stored in the external storage device 25 are as shown in FIG 3 a plurality of MIDI song files D E F a plurality of audio song files d e f aplurality of registration banks each having a plurality of registration data sets The MIDI song files D E F and the audio song files d e f are configured similarly to the MIDI song files A B and C and the audio song files a b and c stored in the ROM 23 respectively The present em
37. ntrol parameters loaded into the temporary storage generates automatic performance musical tone signals on the basis of the automatic performance data string loaded into the temporary storage and generates a voice signalon the basis ofthe voice data string loaded into the temporary storage portion US 7 572 968 B2 17 6 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 5 wherein the registration control portion loads into the tempo rary storage portion at the time of selecting a registration data set from among the registration data sets only the top of voice data specified by the voice specifying data 7 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 4 wherein the one of the two types of specifying data is auto matic performance specifying data while the other specifying data is voice specifying data the automatic performance data storage portion stores the performance data string along with 18 timing data representative of a timing at which a musical tone signal is generated in a song and the voice specifying data is embedded in the performance data string along with the tim ing data 8 An electronic musical instrument according to claim 4 wherein the registration control portion loads into the tempo rary storage portion at the time of selecting a registration data set from among the registration data sets only the top of voice data specified by the voice specifying data
38. o registration operators FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS EP 0 322 871 7 1989 EP 1172 796 1 2002 JP 7 253780 10 1995 JP 11 282465 10 1999 JP 2000 224269 8 2000 JP 2003 208174 7 2003 JP 2004 219947 8 2004 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Sonar 4 User s Manual Twelve Tone Systems 2004 pp 127 165 175 and 198 www pgmusic com for teachings of modifying the registration parameters of a song within a song e g style tone color tempo etc Image Line Software Getting Started FL Studio 4 Creative Edi tion 2003 XP 002392365 cited by examiner Primary Examiner David S Warren 74 Attorney Agent or Firm Morrison amp Foerster LLP 57 ABSTRACT The present invention enables a user to select and control on an electronic musical instrument just by selecting a registra tion data set the mode for generating musical tones auto matic performance tones and voice signals at once More specifically in a ROM 23 and external storage device 25 there are stored a plurality of registration data sets Each registra tion data set includes a plurality of control parameters for controlling mode in which musical tones are generated such as tone color and loudness MIDI song specifying data for specifying MIDI song data automatic performance data and audio song specifying data for specifying audio song data voice data By selecting a registration data set by an opera tion of setting operators 12 the mode for generating musical ton
39. o song data reading routine at step S47 Next explained will be the reproduction of MIDI song data automatic performance data and audio song data voice data If the user operates the setting operators 12 e g an operator 12g for starting reproduction of a MIDI song or an operator 127 for stopping reproduction ofa MIDI song shown in FIG 14 to start reproduction of MIDI song data or to stop reproduction of MIDI song data the CPU 21 executes at the panel operation processing of step S12 in FIG 5 a MIDI song operator instructing routine shown in FIG 10 The MIDI song operator instructing routine is started at step S50 When the user instructs to start reproduction of MIDI song data the CPU 21 sets by processes of steps S51 S52 a new MIDI running flag MRNI to 1 indicative ofthe state where MIDI song data is reproduced When the user instructs to stop reproduction of MIDI song data the CPU 21 sets by pro cesses of steps S53 S54 the new MIDI running flag MRNI to 0 indicative of the state where MIDI song data is not repro duced Ifthe user operates the setting operators 12 e g an opera tor 12i for starting reproduction of an audio song or an opera tor 12j for stopping reproduction of an audio song shown in FIG 14 to start reproduction of audio song data or to stop reproduction of audio song data the CPU 21 executes at the panel operation processing of step S12 in FIG 5 an audio song operator instructing routine
40. perating panel 2 Description of the Related Art As shown in Japanese Patent Laid Open Publication No 07 253780 there has been a well known registration func tion In the registration function musical tone control param eters such as tone color data representative of a tone color of a musical tone to be generated loudness data representative of the loudness of a musical tone to be generated style data for specifying the type of accompaniment tones effect data representative of an effect to be added to a musical tone to be generated are previously stored in a memory as a set of registration data Alternatively the registration data set is specified by a user through the use of a plurality of setting operators provided on an operating panel and is written into the memory In this conventional scheme each registration data set is assigned to a button to make it possible to read out a registration data set with single button operation even dur ing performance of a song enabling the user to establish the mode for generating musical tones on an electronic musical instrument in a short time Recently in addition another type of electronic musical instrument came on the market In this electronic musical instrument a set of registration data also contains automatic performance specifying data for specify ing a set of automatic performance data MIDI song data so that the user s selection of a registration data set followed by the user s op
41. ple DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings FIG 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an electronic musical instru ment according to the present invention The electronic musi cal instrument is provided with a keyboard 11 setting opera tors 12 a display unit 13 and a tone generator 14 The keyboard 11 is composed ofa plurality of keys used as performance operators for specifying the pitch of a musical tone to be generated The operation of the respective keys is detected by a detecting circuit 16 connected to a bus 15 The detecting circuit 16 also includes a key touch sensing circuit for sensing the velocity of a key depression of the respective keys and outputs a velocity signal representative ofthe veloc ity of a key depression at each key depression The setting US 7 572 968 B2 5 operators 12 are provided on an operating panel of the elec tronic musical instrument and are composed of a plurality of setting operators for providing instructions regarding behav iors of respective parts of the electronic musical instrument particularly instructions regarding mode for generating musical tones and registration data The operation of the respective setting operators is detected by a detecting circuit 17 connected to the bus 15 The display unit 13 is configured by a liquid crystal display a CRT or the like provided on the operatin
42. rnal storage device 25 and a communications interface circuit 26 The external storage device 25 includes various storage media such as hard disk HD and flash memory that are previously incorporated in the electronic musical instrument and compact disk CD and flexible disk FD that are attachable to the electronic musical instrument The exter nal storage device 25 also includes drive units for the storage media to enable storing and reading of data and programs that will be described later Those data and programs may be previously stored in the external storage device 25 Alterna tively those data and programs may be externally loaded through the communications interface circuit 26 In the ROM 23 as well there are previously stored various data and pro grams At the time of controlling the operation of the elec tronic musical instrument furthermore various data and pro grams are transferred to be stored from the ROM 23 or the external storage device 25 to the RAM 24 The communications interface circuit 26 is capable of con necting to an external apparatus 31 such as another electronic musical instrument or a personal computer to enable the electronic musical instrument to exchange various programs and data with the external apparatus 31 The external connec tion through the communications interface circuit 26 can be done via a communications network 32 such as the Internet enabling the electronic musical instrument to receive and transm
43. s of the four registration data sets in the registration bank When the display setting opera tor 125 is firstly operated at the display state shown in FIG 15 more specifically the contents ofthe first registration data set in the selected registration bank are displayed on the display unit 13 Shown in FIG 16 is a display state in which the contents of the registration data B7 1 in the registration bank B7 are displayed on the display unit 13 After the first opera tion of the display setting operator 125 each time the display setting operator 125 is operated the contents of the second third and fourth registration data set in the selected registra tion bank are successively displayed US 7 572 968 B2 9 At the display state of FIG 16 if the user operates the setting operators 12 to modify the contents of the registration data the CPU 21 modifies the contents ofthe registration data by the process of step S32 More specifically if the user clicks with a mouse any one of triangles each corresponding to a control parameter item shown in FIG 16 possible options for the clicked control parameter are displayed on the display unit 13 If the user then clicks any one of the displayed options with the mouse the content of the control parameter is changed to the selected option If the user then operates the setting operators 12 to update the registration data such as clicking a mark SAVE in FIG 16 with the mouse the CPU 21 upd
44. s transposition musical effects Each of the track data units corresponds to a part such as melody accompaniment and rhythm being composed of ini tial data timing data various event data and end data Initial data of a track data unit is composed of control parameters about matters on the track part that are defined at the start of an automatic performance such as tone color of musical tones loudness of musical tones and effect added to musical tones Each timing data unit corresponds to an event data unit representing the control timing for the event data unit The timing data is absolute timing data representative ofthe abso lute time i e bar beat and timing in a beat measured from the start of an automatic performance Event data includes at least note on event data note off event data and audio song start or completion event data Note on event data represents the start of generation of a musical tone signal corresponds to performance data on the keyboard 11 being composed of note on data note number data and velocity data Note on data represents the start of generation of a musical tone signal key depression on the keyboard 11 Note number data represents the pitch of a musical tone signal key on the keyboard 11 Velocity data represents the loudness level of a musical tone signal veloc ity of a key depression on the keyboard 11 Note off event data is composed of note off data and note number data Note off
45. signal having the pitch and loudness that correspond to the supplied note num ber data and velocity data respectively The tone generator 14 then emits a musical tone corresponding to the digital musical tone signal through the sound system 19 and the speakers 19a In this case the tone color loudness and the like of the digital musical tone signal generated by the tone generator 14 are defined under the control on the mode for generating musical tones that includes registration data processing When the depressed key is released the CPU 21 controls the tone gen erator 14 to terminate the generation of the digital musical tone signal The emission of the musical tone corresponding to the released key is thus terminated Due to the above described keyboard performance processing a musical per formance on the keyboard 11 is played At song data reproduction processing of step S14 the CPU 21 controls generation of automatic performance tones on the basis of MIDI song data automatic performance data as well as generation of audio signals on the basis of audio song data voice data These controls will be detailed later with refer ence to flowcharts shown in FIG 12 and FIG 13 Next explained will be processing on registration data When the user operates the setting operators 12 to provide instructions for selecting a registration bank the CPU 21 starts a bank setting processing routine at the panel operation processing of step S12 of
46. sing the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S26 and terminates the bank setting processing routine at step S27 Next explained will be a case in which the user uses regis tration data for the user s performance on the keyboard 11 In this case if the user operates any one of the registration operators 12c to 12f shown in FIG 14 the CPU 21 executes at the panel operation processing of step S12 in FIG 5 a registration data reading routine shown in FIG 8 The regis tration data reading routine is started at step S40 At step S41 the CPU 21 reads the registration data set entered in the operated registration operator 12c to 12 from the ROM 23 or the external storage device 25 and writes into the RAM 24 As shown in FIG 4 in other words in addition to the control parameters for controlling the mode for generating musical tones such as tone color loudness tempo style and the like MIDI song specifying data and audio song specifying data is also written into the RAM 24 At step S42 the CPU 21 then reads MIDI song data automatic performance data and audio song data voice data that is respectively specified by the MIDI song specifying data and audio song specifying data written into the RAM 24 from the ROM 23 or the external storage device 25 CPU21 writes the read MIDI song data and audio song data into RAM24 The CPU 21 then terminates the registration data reading routine at step S43 At step S42 the entire audio song data voice data
47. so terminated in a case where the new MIDI running flag MRN1 is set to 0 during reproduction of MIDI song data by the process of step S54 of the MIDI song operator instructing routine shown in FIG 10 The audio song reproduction routine is started at step S120 shown in FIG 13 At step S121 the CPU 21 determines whether the reproduction of audio song data has been cur rently instructed by determining whether the new audio run ning flag ARNI is at 1 Ifthe new audio running flag ARN1 is at 0 to indicate that the reproduction of audio song data is not currently instructed the CPU 21 gives No at step S121 and sets at step 129 an old audio running flag ARN2 to 0 indicated by the new audio running flag ARN1 The CPU 21 then temporarily terminates the audio song reproduction rou tine at step S130 Ifthe new audio running flag ARN1 is at 1 to indicate that thereproduction ofaudio song data is currently instructed the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S121 The CPU 21 then deter mines at step S122 whether it is just the time to start repro ducing audio song data by determining whether the old audio running flag ARN2 indicative of the previous instruction for reproduction of audio song data is at 0 If it is determined that it is just the time to start reproducing audio song data the CPU 21 gives Yes at step S122 The CPU 21 then deter mines at step S123 whether registration data in the RAM 24 contains aud
48. ters contained in the selected registration data set but also an automatic performance data string and a voice data string specified respectively by automatic perfor mance specifying data and voice specifying data contained in the selected registration data set wherein the electronic musi cal instrument controls mode in which a musical tone is generated emits an automatic performance tone and gener ates a voice signal on the basis of the control parameters the automatic performance data string and the voice data string loaded into the temporary storage portion In the feature of the present invention configured as above each registration data set contains a plurality of control parameters automatic performance specifying data and voice specifying data enabling a user to specify the mode in which musical tones are generated automatic performance data and voice data at once only by selecting a registration data set As aresult the feature of the present invention enables the user to play a melody part while generating accompaniment tones on the basis of previously recorded voice data or to add an audio song or audio phrase as background music BGM or effect tones during a performance by the user or during reproduc tion of automatic performance tones on the basis of automatic performance data providing the user with enriched music It is another feature of the present invention to provide an electronic musical instrument comprising the reg
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