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Musical sound producing device in electronic musical instrument

US5783766A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 29, 1997
Grant dateJul 21, 1998
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Expiry dateJul 29, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S84/02
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A musical sound producing device in an electronic musical instrument of stereophonic sampling system, including: an oscillator using status memory for storing each order of right and left oscillators which are being used for sound production, in accordance with an order of the sound production; a number-of-produced-sound memory register for storing each number of stereophonic sounds and a monophonic sound which are being produced at the same time by the oscillators memorized in the oscillator using status memory; and an oscillator assigning section for performing calculation in accordance with the numbers of the stereophonic sounds and the monophonic sound stored in the number-of-produced-sound memory register, switching at least one stereophonic sounds being produced over to monophonic sound, by damping an oscillator, when a musical sound is newly keyed on under a condition that the number of oscillators which are being used reaches a total number of oscillators, and assigning an oscillator damped by switching to produce the musical sound which is newly keyed on.

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