Resonance tone generation apparatus and resonance tone generation program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9245506-B2
Application number	US-201514609178-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2015
Priority date	Jan 31, 2014
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

A resonance tone generation apparatus 20 is applied to an electronic musical instrument DM having a tone generator for generating, in accordance with a tone generation instruction signal having a key number n, a musical tone signal indicative of a piano sound having a key tone pitch specified by the key number. In the resonance tone generation apparatus 20 , the key numbers n are assigned. The resonance tone generation apparatus 20 has a plurality of resonance tone generation circuits 30 (n) each being configured to have a plurality of resonance frequencies and each retrieving a musical tone signal indicative of a musical sound of the piano and generating a musical tone signal indicative of a resonance tone which imitates a sound of strings of the piano, the sound being resonated by the piano sound indicated by the retrieved musical tone signal. The resonance tone generation apparatus 20 also has a resonance circuit setting portion 60 which allows respective resonance frequencies of the resonance tone generation circuit 30 (n) to coincide with frequencies of a fundamental tone and overtones of a musical sound PS (n) generated by the tone generator in accordance with tone generation instruction information including the key number n.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A resonance tone generation apparatus applied to an electronic musical instrument having a tone generator which generates a musical tone signal indicative of a musical sound which has a tone pitch specified by a tone pitch number and is generated by a polyphonic musical instrument by vibrating a vibrating body corresponding to the tone pitch number, in accordance with a tone generation instruction signal including the tone pitch number, the resonance tone generation apparatus comprising:
a plurality of resonance tone generation portions each of which is assigned a different tone pitch number and is configured to have a plurality of resonance frequencies, each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portions retrieving a musical tone signal indicative of a musical sound of the polyphonic musical instrument and generating a musical tone signal indicative of a resonance tone imitating a tone of a vibrating body of the polyphonic musical instrument resonated by the musical sound of the polyphonic musical instrument indicated by the retrieved musical tone signal; and
a resonance frequency setting portion for allowing respective resonance frequencies of the each resonance tone generation portion to coincide with frequencies of a fundamental tone and overtones of the musical sound generated by the tone generator in accordance with tone generation instruction information including the tone pitch number assigned to the each resonance tone generation portion.

2. The resonance tone generation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portions has:
a delay portion for retaining the retrieved musical tone signal and delaying the retained musical tone signal;
a delay length adjustment portion for uniformly delaying phase of an entire frequency band of the musical tone signal delayed by the delay portion to adjust a period of delay time delayed by the delay portion;
one or more phase shift portion having phase characteristic which delays a low frequency component of the musical tone signal delayed by the delay portion and the delay length adjustment portion longer than a high frequency component; and
an adding portion for adding the musical tone signal in which respective phases of the frequency components were shifted by the one or more phase shift portion to a musical tone signal newly retrieved from the tone generator, and then supplying the added musical tone signal to the delay portion; and
the resonance frequency setting portion specifies a period of time for which the musical tone signal is to be retained by the delay portion, phase characteristic of the delay length adjustment portion, and the phase characteristic of the one or more phase shift portion such that the respective resonance frequencies of the resonance tone generation portion coincide with the frequencies of the fundamental tone and overtones of the musical sound generated by the tone generator in accordance with the tone generation instruction information including the tone pitch number assigned to the resonance tone generation portion.

3. The resonance tone generation apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
a total period of time during which the musical tone signal is to be delayed by the delay portion and the delay length adjustment portion has an integer portion and a decimal portion; and
the resonance frequency setting portion determines a period of time for which the musical tone signal is to be retained by the delay portion in accordance with a value of the integer portion, and specifies the phase characteristic of the delay length adjustment portion in accordance with a value of the decimal portion.

4. The resonance tone generation apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the resonance tone generation apparatus is applied to an electronic musical instrument on which tone pitches and a tone color of musical sounds of the polyphonic musical instrument can be specified in accordance with musical sound setting information including model information indicative of a model of polyphonic musical instrument imitated by the electronic musical instrument, and tuning system information indicative of setting on tuning, the electronic musical instrument being capable of externally outputting the musical sound setting information;
the resonance frequency setting portion has:
a musical sound setting information retrieving portion for retrieving the musical sound setting information;
a basic table which specifies a parameter specifying a total period of time during which a musical tone signal is to be delayed by the delay portion and the delay length adjustment portion, and a parameter specifying phase characteristic of the one or more phase shift portion in a case where a reference tone has a certain tone pitch, while the electronic musical instrument is to imitate a certain model of polyphonic musical instrument tuned by a certain tuning system, for each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portions; and
a plurality of correction tables which specify a coefficient which is to be multiplied by the parameters of the basic table in a case where the electronic musical instrument is to imitate the certain model of polyphonic musical instrument tuned by a tuning system different from the certain tuning system, the coefficient being provided for each of tuning systems which are different from the certain tuning system; and
in accordance with the retrieved musical sound setting information, by use of the basic table and one or more of the correction tables, the period of time for which the musical tone signal is to be retained by the delay portion, the phase characteristic of the delay length adjustment portion, and the phase characteristic of the one or more phase shift portions are specified for each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portions.

5. The resonance tone generation apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
at least one of the correction tables is formed of twelve coefficients each corresponding to a different pitch name.

6. The resonance tone generation apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the resonance frequency setting portion has:
a frequency response detecting portion for sequentially retrieving musical sounds each having a different tone pitch of the polyphonic musical instrument from the tone generator, and detecting respective frequencies of fundamental tones and overtones of the musical sounds each having a different tone pitch of the polyphonic musical instrument;
an initializing portion for initializing the period of time for which the musical tone signal is to be retained by the delay portion, the phase characteristic of the delay length adjustment portion, and the phase characteristic of the one or more phase shift portion to certain initial values for each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portion;
a resonance frequency detecting portion for detecting resonance frequencies of each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portion; and
an optimizing portion for optimizing resonance frequencies of each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portion by repeatedly updating the period of time for which the musical tone signal is to be retained by the delay portion, the phase characteristic of the delay length adjustment portion, and the phase characteristic of the one or more phase shift portion for each of the plurality of resonance tone generation portion until a difference between the resonance frequencies of the each resonance tone generation portion and the frequencies of the fundamental tone and overtones of the polyphonic musical instrument's musical sound having a corresponding tone pitch generated by the tone generator in accordance with the tone generation instruction information includ

Assignees

• Yamaha Corp

Inventors

• Nakata Masafumi

Classifications

• G10H1/0091 Primary

  Means for obtaining special acoustic effects (combined with modulation G10H1/043) · CPC title

• G10H1/08

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

• G10H2210/281

  Reverberation or echo · CPC title

• G10H1/44

  Tuning means · CPC title

• G10H2210/271

  Sympathetic resonance, i.e. adding harmonics simulating sympathetic resonance from other strings · CPC title