CA1027784A - Multiplexing system for selection of notes in an electronic musical instrument - Google Patents

Multiplexing system for selection of notes in an electronic musical instrument

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Publication number
CA1027784A
CA1027784A CA226,780A CA226780A CA1027784A CA 1027784 A CA1027784 A CA 1027784A CA 226780 A CA226780 A CA 226780A CA 1027784 A CA1027784 A CA 1027784A
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notes
selection
musical instrument
electronic musical
multiplexing system
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CA226,780A
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French (fr)
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CA226780S (en
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Gerald L. Kmetz
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National Semiconductor Corp
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National Semiconductor Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/36—Accompaniment arrangements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/18—Selecting circuits
    • G10H1/182—Key multiplexing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2230/00—General physical, ergonomic or hardware implementation of electrophonic musical tools or instruments, e.g. shape or architecture
    • G10H2230/045—Special instrument [spint], i.e. mimicking the ergonomy, shape, sound or other characteristic of a specific acoustic musical instrument category
    • G10H2230/251—Spint percussion, i.e. mimicking percussion instruments; Electrophonic musical instruments with percussion instrument features; Electrophonic aspects of acoustic percussion instruments or MIDI-like control therefor
    • G10H2230/255—Spint xylophone, i.e. mimicking any multi-toned percussion instrument with a multiplicity of tuned resonating bodies, regardless of their material or shape, e.g. xylophone, vibraphone, lithophone, metallophone, marimba, balafon, ranat, gamban, anklong

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Electrophonic Musical Instruments (AREA)
CA226,780A 1974-08-23 1975-05-13 Multiplexing system for selection of notes in an electronic musical instrument Expired CA1027784A (en)

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US500138A US3875842A (en) 1974-08-23 1974-08-23 Multiplexing system for selection of notes in an electronic musical instrument

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CA1027784A true CA1027784A (en) 1978-03-14

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US (1) US3875842A (en)
JP (1) JPS5126518A (en)
CA (1) CA1027784A (en)
DE (1) DE2537412A1 (en)
FR (1) FR2282688A1 (en)

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US3955460A (en) * 1975-03-26 1976-05-11 C. G. Conn Ltd. Electronic musical instrument employing digital multiplexed signals
US4108038A (en) * 1975-04-04 1978-08-22 Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha Time shared tone keying system in electronic musical instrument
FR2344907A1 (en) * 1976-03-16 1977-10-14 Deforeit Christian POLYPHONIC ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
US4052924A (en) * 1976-08-09 1977-10-11 Kawai Musical Instrument Mfg. Co. Ltd. Interval repeat generator for keyboard musical instrument
US4387617A (en) * 1976-12-29 1983-06-14 Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha Assigner for electronic musical instrument
US4126070A (en) * 1977-01-31 1978-11-21 Hill Jeremy R Keyboard musical instrument
US4178825A (en) * 1977-06-06 1979-12-18 Kawai Musical Instrument Mfg. Co. Ltd. Musical tone synthesizer for generating a marimba effect
US4240316A (en) * 1977-06-17 1980-12-23 Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho Keyboard type electronic musical instrument
JPS54111324A (en) * 1978-02-20 1979-08-31 Nippon Gakki Seizo Kk Electronic musical instrument
US4254682A (en) * 1978-06-20 1981-03-10 The Wurlitzer Company Production of chord notes in a digital organ
US4228714A (en) * 1979-01-02 1980-10-21 Kimball International, Inc. Multiplex chime generator
JPS55113092A (en) * 1979-02-23 1980-09-01 Nippon Musical Instruments Mfg Effect circuit for electronic musical instrument
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US3515792A (en) * 1967-08-16 1970-06-02 North American Rockwell Digital organ
US3594487A (en) * 1969-08-25 1971-07-20 Navcor Inc Contactless electronic keyboard array
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US3757022A (en) * 1971-09-16 1973-09-04 Allen Organ Co Pitch articulation system for an electronic organ
US3697661A (en) * 1971-10-04 1972-10-10 North American Rockwell Multiplexed pitch generator system for use in a keyboard musical instrument
US3740450A (en) * 1971-12-06 1973-06-19 North American Rockwell Apparatus and method for simulating chiff in a sampled amplitude electronic organ
US3794748A (en) * 1971-12-06 1974-02-26 North American Rockwell Apparatus and method for frequency modulation for sampled amplitude signal generating system
US3746773A (en) * 1972-02-04 1973-07-17 Baldwin Co D H Electronic organ employing time position multiplexed signals
US3809786A (en) * 1972-02-14 1974-05-07 Deutsch Res Lab Computor organ
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JPS5126518A (en) 1976-03-04
FR2282688A1 (en) 1976-03-19
DE2537412A1 (en) 1976-03-04
US3875842A (en) 1975-04-08

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