Musical performance-related information output device, system including musical performance-related information output device, and electronic musical instrument

a technology of midi data and output device, which is applied in the direction of instruments, electrotrophonic musical instruments, etc., can solve the problem of taking a lot of labor to manually regulate the tempo information of midi data

Active Publication Date: 2013-11-26
YAMAHA CORP
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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a device that can play musical performances while also adding information about the performance without affecting the quality of the audio data. This means that the device can play music while also giving information about the music, without losing the importance of the audio data.

Problems solved by technology

However, when the tempo is changed in the course of audio data, it takes a lot of labor to manually regulate the tempo information of MIDI data.

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[0053]A guitar 1 according to a first embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 1 is an appearance diagram showing the appearance of the guitar. In FIG. 1, (A) is a top view of the appearance of the guitar when viewed from above. In FIG. 1, (B) is a partially enlarged view of a neck of the guitar. In FIG. 2, (A) is a block diagram showing the function and configuration of the guitar.

[0054]First, the appearance of the guitar 1 will be described with reference to FIG. 1. As shown by (A) in FIG. 1, the guitar 1 is an electronic stringed instrument (MIDI guitar), and includes a body 11 which is a body part and a neck 12 which is a neck part.

[0055]The body 11 is provided with six strings 111 which are played in guitar playing style, and an output I / F 27 which outputs an audio signal. With regard to the six strings 111, a string sensor 22 (see FIG. 2) is arranged to detect the vibration of the strings 111.

[0056]As shown by (B) in FIG. 1, the neck ...

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[0091]A musical performance information output device 5 according to a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG. 5 is an appearance diagram showing the appearance of a guitar with a musical performance information output device. In FIG. 5, (A) is a top view of the appearance of the guitar when viewed from above. In FIG. 5, (B) is a partial enlarged view of a neck of the guitar. FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the function and configuration of the musical performance information output device. The second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that an audio signal of a guitar 4 (acoustic guitar) which is an acoustic stringed instrument, instead of the audio signal of the guitar (MIDI guitar) 1 which is an electronic stringed instrument, is picked up by a microphone and recorded. The difference will be described.

[0092]As shown by (A) and (B) in FIG. 5, the musical performance information output device 5 includes multiple pressure sensors ...

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[0110]In FIG. 8, (A) is a block diagram showing the configuration of a tempo information output device (musical performance-related information output device) according to a third embodiment of the invention. In FIG. 8, (A) shows an example where an electronic musical instrument (electronic piano) also serves as a tempo information output device. An electronic piano 1001 shown by (A) in FIG. 8 includes a control unit 1011, a musical performance information acquiring section (musical performance-related information acquiring section) 1012, a musical sound generating section 1013, a data superimposing section 1014, an output interface (I / F) 1015, a tempo clock generating section 1016, a metronome sound generating section 1017, a mixer section 1018, and a headphone I / F 1019.

[0111]The musical performance information acquiring section 1012 acquires musical performance information in accordance with a musical performance manipulation of a performer. The musical performance information is,...

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Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a superimposing section that is adapted to superimpose the musical performance-related information on an analog audio signal such that a modulated component of the musical performance-related information is included in a band higher than the frequency component of the analog audio signal generated in accordance with the musical performance manipulation of the performer, and an output section that outputs the analog audio signal on which the superimposing section superimposes the musical performance-related information.

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[0001]This application is a U.S. National Phase Application of PCT International Application PCT / JP2009 / 063510 filed on Jul. 29, 2009 which is based on and claims priority from JP 2008-194459 filed on Jul. 29, 2008, JP 2008-195687 filed on Jul. 30, 2008, JP2008-195688 filed Jul. 30, 2008, JP 2008-211284 filed Aug. 20, 2008, JP 2009-171319 filed Jul. 22, 2009, JP 2009-171320 filed Jul. 22, 2009, JP 2009-171321 filed Jul. 22, 2009 and JP 2009-171322 filed Jul. 22, 2009, the contents of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a musical performance-related information output device which outputs an audio signal and musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a system including the musical performance-related information output device, and an electronic musical instrument.BACKGROUND ART[0003]Various electronic musical instruments have been suggested which output audio data...

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Patent Type & AuthorityPatents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G10H1/00
InventorIWASE, HIROYUKISONE, TAKUROFUKUI, MITSURU
OwnerYAMAHA CORP