Electronic wind instrument, musical sound generation device, musical sound generation method and storage medium storing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10978034-B2
Application number	US-202016872453-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2020
Priority date	May 24, 2019
Publication date	Apr 13, 2021
Grant date	Apr 13, 2021

Abstract

A musical sound generation device including a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure, a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound, a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound, a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch, and a processor which starts output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch, starts output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure, and controls a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A musical sound generation device comprising:
a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure;
a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound;
a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound;
a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch; and
a processor,
wherein the processor (i) starts output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch, (ii) starts output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor, and (iii) controls a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.

2. The musical sound generation device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the first sound source to output the first signal which has a noise sound component in accordance with the sound pitch specified by the key switch.

3. The musical sound generation device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the first sound source to start the output of the first signal at timing at which the sound pitch of the musical sound is determined by the key switch.

4. The musical sound generation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first sound volume setter which inputs the first signal outputted by the first sound source, adjusts the first signal such that the exhalation sound is emitted at a specified sound volume, and outputs the first signal; and
a second sound volume setter which inputs the second signal outputted by the second sound source, adjusts the second signal such that the musical sound is emitted at a specified sound volume, and outputs the second signal,
wherein the processor controls the sound volume to be specified for the first sound volume setter and the sound volume to be specified for the second sound volume setter on different conditions based on the blowing pressure.

5. The musical sound generation device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor controls such that a change characteristic of the sound volume of the exhalation sound which is set by the first sound volume setter and a change characteristic of the sound volume of the musical sound which is set by the second sound volume setter are different from each other, in accordance with the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor.

6. The musical sound generation device according to claim 4 , wherein the processor controls to output only the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal without outputting the musical sound resulting from the second signal, when the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor is less than a threshold value set in advance, and
wherein the processor controls to output the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal and the musical sound resulting from the second signal and to set the sound volume of the musical sound by the second sound volume setter on basis of the blowing pressure, when the blowing pressure is equal to or more than the threshold value.

7. The musical sound generation device according to claim 6 , wherein the processor controls the first sound volume setter such that a sound volume is set which enables the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal to be emitted, even when the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor is less than the threshold value.

8. The musical sound generation device according to claim 6 , wherein the processor controls the second sound volume setter to stop emission of the musical sound resulting from the second signal, and controls the first sound volume setter to continue emission of the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal, when the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor becomes less than the threshold value after becoming equal to or more than the threshold value.

9. An electronic wind instrument comprising:
the musical sound generation device according to claim 1 ;
a mouthpiece into which breath for a musical performance is blown; and
a sound emitter which emits the exhalation sound for which the sound volume has been set or a musical instrument sound acquired by combining the exhalation sound for which the sound volume has been set and the musical sound, on basis of the blowing pressure in accordance with an amount of breath blown into the mouthpiece.

10. A musical sound generation method for a musical sound generation device including a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure, a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound, a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound, and a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch, comprising:
starting output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch;
starting output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor; and
controlling a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program that is executable by a computer in a musical sound generation device including a blowing pressure sensor which detects a blowing pressure, a key switch which specifies a sound pitch of a musical sound, a first sound source which outputs a first signal corresponding to an exhalation sound, and a second sound source which outputs a second signal corresponding to the musical sound having the sound pitch specified by the key switch, the program being executable by the computer to actualize functions comprising:
starting output of the first signal by the first sound source on basis of an operation performed on the key switch;
starting output of the second signal by the second sound source on basis of the blowing pressure detected by the blowing pressure sensor; and
controlling a sound volume when the exhalation sound resulting from the first signal is emitted and a sound volume when the musical sound resulting from the second signal is emitted, on basis of the blowing pressure.

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasaki Hiroyuki

Classifications

• G10H1/348

  Switches actuated by parts of the body other than fingers · CPC title

• G10H3/143 Primary

  characterised by the use of a piezoelectric or magneto-strictive transducer · CPC title

• G10H5/02

  using generation of basic tones · CPC title

• G10H1/08

  by combining tones (G10H1/14, G10H1/16 take precedence; chord G10H1/38) · CPC title

• G10H1/46 Primary

  Volume control · CPC title