Electronic musical instrument, automatic operation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024021181-A1
Application number	US-202318334326-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 13, 2023
Priority date	Jul 18, 2022
Publication date	Jan 18, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electronic musical instrument is provided with a keyboard including a key that allows automatic operation. The electronic musical instrument includes: a performance information acquisition part, acquiring performance information containing note-on or note-off and an input timing of the performance information; a key drive timing setting part, setting a key drive timing based on the input timing of the performance information; an advancement part, in response to a time difference between the key drive timing of previous performance information and the key drive timing of subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to a predetermined timing threshold, re-setting the key drive timing of the previous performance information to an advanced timing; and an automatic operation part, performing automatic operation of the key of the keyboard at the key drive timing of the performance information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
a keyboard, comprising a key that allows automatic operation; a performance information acquisition part, acquiring performance information containing note-on or note-off and an input timing of the performance information; a key drive timing setting part, setting a key drive timing being a timing of performing automatic operation of the key of the keyboard according to the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part based on the input timing of the performance information; an advancement part, in response to a time difference between the key drive timing of previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to a predetermined timing threshold, re-setting the key drive timing of the previous performance information to an advanced timing; and an automatic operation part, performing automatic operation of the key of the keyboard based on the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part at the key drive timing of the performance information.

2 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 , wherein
the key drive timing setting part sets a timing obtained by adding a lookahead delay time longer than the timing threshold to the input timing of the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part as the key drive timing of the performance information.

3 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a musical tone output part, outputting a musical tone of the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part at a timing based on the input timing of the performance information, wherein the musical tone output part outputs the musical tone of the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part at a timing obtained by delaying the input timing of the performance information by a time obtained by adding the lookahead delay time and a key drive delay time corresponding to a time required for the automatic operation of the key of the keyboard.

4 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 2 , wherein,
in response to the time difference between the key drive timing of the previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to the timing threshold, the advancement part re-sets the key drive timing of the previous performance information to a timing advanced by a first time; and the first time is shorter than the lookahead delay time.

5 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 3 , wherein,
in response to the time difference between the key drive timing of the previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to the timing threshold, the advancement part re-sets the key drive timing of the previous performance information to a timing advanced by a first time; and the first time is shorter than the lookahead delay time.

6 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 4 , wherein
the previous performance information is note-off; the subsequent performance information is note-on; and the first time is further set less than or equal to a time required for the key of the keyboard to change from a completely depressed state to a completely released state by automatic operation.

7 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a delay part, in response to the time difference between the key drive timing of the previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to the timing threshold, re-setting the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information to a further delayed timing.

8 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 7 , wherein
the key drive timing setting part sets a timing obtained by adding a lookahead delay time longer than the timing threshold to the input timing of the performance information acquired by the performance information acquisition part as the key drive timing of the performance information; in response to the time difference between the key drive timing of the previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to the timing threshold, the advancement part re-sets the key drive timing of the previous performance information to a timing advanced by a second time; in response to the time difference between the key drive timing of the previous performance information set by the key drive timing setting part and the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to the timing threshold, the delay part re-sets the key drive timing of the subsequent performance information to a timing further delayed by a third time; and a time obtained by adding the second time and the third time is shorter than the lookahead delay time.

9 . The electronic musical instrument according to claim 8 , wherein
the time obtained by adding the second time and the third time is further set less than or equal to a time actually required for the key of the keyboard to change from a completely depressed state to a completely released state by automatic operation.

10 . An automatic operation method, executed by an electronic musical instrument comprising a keyboard comprising a key that allows automatic operation, the automatic operation method comprising:
acquiring performance information containing note-on or note-off and an input timing of the performance information; setting a key drive timing being a timing of performing automatic operation of the key of the keyboard according to the acquired performance information based on the input timing of the performance information; in response to a time difference between the set key drive timing of previous performance information and the set key drive timing of subsequent performance information related to the same sound as the previous performance information being less than or equal to a predetermined timing threshold, re-setting the key drive timing of the previous performance information to an advanced timing; and performing automatic operation of the key of the keyboard based on the acquired performance information at the key drive timing of the performance information.

11 . The automatic operation method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
setting a timing obtained by adding a lookahead delay time longer than the timing threshold to the input timing of the acquired performance information as the key drive timing of the performance information.

12 . The automatic operation method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
outputting a musical tone of the acquired performance information at a timing based on the input timing of the performance inform

Assignees

• Roland Corp

Inventors

• Susami Ryo

Classifications

• G10F1/02

  Pianofortes with keyboard · CPC title

• G10H1/26 Primary

  for automatically producing a series of tones · CPC title

• G10H1/0066 Primary

  using a MIDI interface · CPC title

• G10H2230/011

  Hybrid piano, e.g. combined acoustic and electronic piano with complete hammer mechanism as well as key-action sensors coupled to an electronic sound generator · CPC title

• G10H2240/325

  Synchronizing two or more audio tracks or files according to musical features or musical timings · CPC title