Karaoke apparatus

Abstract

A karaoke music piece is selected through a music-piece selecting section 2, and a rhythm for the performance of the karaoke music piece is designated through a rhythm designating section 5. A performance section 6 reads a melody system track of the selected karaoke music piece, and supplies the performance data to a tone generator 8. On the other hand, a rhythm pattern producing section 7 produces a rhythm performance data for the designated rhythm based on a chord and a beat at that time, and supplies the produced data to the tone generator 8. Accordingly, the selected karaoke music piece can be played with the designated rhythm which is different from the original one.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to a karaoke machine capable of playing current karaoke music, and the performance form (such as the rhythm of the music) can be changed according to the user's preference. Background technique [0002] Usually, the music data used to perform karaoke is provided to the karaoke machine, and is arranged by many performance data tracks to produce various accompanying sounds, such as chords and rhythmic sounds. The karaoke machine reads the music data, and then transmits the data to the tone generator, so that the performance of karaoke can be carried out. As long as the karaoke machine performs karaoke according to the same music data, the provided karaoke performance forms are the same. [0003] A user of a karaoke machine may get tired of always singing a certain song in the same performance form. Therefore, users sometimes want to play the same musical piece in different performance forms. But as mentioned above, the karaoke ma...

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Problems solved by technology

But as mentioned above, the karaoke machine of the prior art has such shortcoming, promptly as long as karaoke is performed by the same music data, what provide is the same performance form

In addition, it takes a lot of time and effort to prepare music data in various performance forms for one karaoke music, and the amount of music data stored in the card into the karaoke machine is greatly increased, so that this kind of preparation work is actually impossible.

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