Generating tones by combining sound materials

US8921678B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YAMAHA CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

• Jun Usui · London, GB
• Taishi Kamiya · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 2, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 30, 2014
• Expiry date: May 28, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10H2240/305
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

The apparatus displays, on a display screen, an icon placement region having a time axis defined therein, and displays, in accordance with an input instruction, an icon image with which feature amount information of material data indicative of a sound material is associated. The apparatus further sets a type of a feature amount database, where material data and feature amount information of the material data are associated with each other, along the time axis in accordance with an input instruction. Then, the apparatus references the feature amount database of a type having correspondence relationship in time axis with an icon image to identify material data similar to the feature amount information corresponding to the icon image, and audibly generates a sound at timing corresponding to a position, on the time axis, of the icon image and with content corresponding to the identified material data.