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Electronic musical instrument with multiple voices responsive to mutually exclusive ram memory segments

US5121667A · kind A · utility

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20References
7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 6, 1989
Grant dateJun 16, 1992
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 6, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H7/004
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A multi-channel musical instrument/computer comprising a mass memory device connected to a plurality of random access memory divisions, each random access memory division connected to an oscillator bank to produce musical sounds from multiple sources simultaneously. A MIDI interface is provided to connect to another instrument or system for the reproduction and/or storage of musical sounds. A ROM card interface is provided to collect and/or play musical sounds stored on ROM cards supplied by various manufacturers.

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