JP2002244655A - Device and method for editing indication and program relating to the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for editing indications which present what function the respective musical representation rules among multiple musical representation rule sets have which allow a user to select any one when an electronic musical instrument gives various musical representations to the playing data for automatic playing and a program relating to the method. SOLUTION: Icons showing the retrieval data for specifying an object part to be edited in the playing data and the template data showing the contents of editing performed to the editing object part retrieved by means of the retrieval data are displayed and a user selects icons. The playing data to be edited are retrieved by means of a retrieval data corresponding to the selected icon to specify the editing object part and the specified part is edited according to the template data corresponding to the icon selected. The icons are easy- to-see pictures or patterns representing the contents of the retrieval data and template data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an editing instruction apparatus and method for searching a performance data for a specific data portion and automatically editing the data portion, and a program according to the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in various electronic musical instruments, MID
There is known a function of creating performance data represented by I (Musical Instruments Digital Interface) data and performing automatic performance and automatic accompaniment based on the performance data.
As a method of creating such performance data, there are a method of inputting by playing a musical instrument such as a keyboard, and a method of creating performance data by inputting the sounding timing and pitch of musical notes on a predetermined screen. The latter method is what is called step input.

By the way, when performance data is created by step input, there is a problem that the sounding timing, pitch, etc. become uniform, resulting in a mechanically expressionless performance. Therefore, in order to perform more natural performance, beautiful performance, vivid performance, and the like, a technique of adding control data for realizing various musical expressions and musical instruments to the performance data has been considered. For example, JP-A-9-634
In the method described in No. 6, a plurality of templates consisting of a control data sequence corresponding to the rise and fall of a musical tone are prepared in advance, and one of the templates is selected and input to the performance data. The data entry method is described. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2140
No. 83 describes a tone generation method for controlling a sound source to change a tone according to a playing style code.

[0004]

According to the technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-6346, the user himself determines what part of the music is to be given what kind of performance expression. You need to be familiar. Therefore,
In order to provide a system that can be easily used by a wide range of users from beginners to experienced users, it is preferable that parts that can be automatically judged can be automatically added to performance expressions.

According to the technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-214083, various tone change characteristics can be given according to the playing style code, but from the viewpoint of the user's convenience, specification is troublesome.

According to the present invention, when various musical expressions are added to performance data, it is possible to easily present and select the function of each expression rule from a plurality of musical expression rule sets. It is an object of the present invention to provide an editing instruction device, a method, and a program according to the method.

[0007]

In order to achieve this object, an invention according to claim 1 is an editing instruction apparatus for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment on an electronic musical instrument, wherein Storage means for storing search data for specifying a portion to be edited in the data, and template data representing editing contents to be applied to the portion to be edited searched by the search data; and the search data and template data Display means for displaying an icon representing the content of the icon, selecting means for selecting an icon to be used from the displayed icons, and searching for the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to select a portion to be edited. Editing means for specifying and editing the specified portion according to the template data corresponding to the selected icon. The features.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the editing instruction apparatus according to the first aspect, further comprising operation means for instructing start of editing of the performance data, and wherein the selection means is displayed by the display means. A plurality of icons can be selected from a plurality of icons, and the editing means includes:
The editing corresponding to each of the plurality of selected icons is performed collectively.

The invention according to claim 3 is the invention according to claim 1 or 2
Wherein the display means displays the search data and the template data as icons including a picture or pattern that visually expresses the contents of the template data.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an editing instruction method for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment on an electronic musical instrument, the method comprising specifying a portion to be edited in the performance data. A step of storing search data and template data representing editing contents to be applied to a portion to be edited searched by the search data; a step of displaying icons representing the contents of the search data and the template data; Selecting an icon to be used from the icons; searching the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to specify a portion to be edited; and corresponding to the specified icon to the specified portion Editing according to the template data.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an editing instruction program for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment on an electronic musical instrument, the program being for specifying a portion to be edited in the performance data. Preparing search data and template data representing editing contents to be applied to a portion to be edited searched by the search data, and displaying icons representing the contents of the search data and the template data, Selecting an icon to be used from the displayed icons; searching the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to specify a portion to be edited; and selecting the selected icon in the specified portion. And editing in accordance with the template data corresponding to.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system includes a read only memory (ROM) 101, a random access memory (RAM) 102, a central processing unit (CPU) 10
3, timer 104, external storage device 105, MIDI interface (I / F) 106, detection circuit 108, operator 109, display circuit 110, display 111, sound source circuit 112, sound system 113, communication I / F 11
4 and a communication bus 116.

The ROM 101 stores a BIOS (BASIC INPUT / O).
It is a non-volatile memory storing UTPUT SYSTEM). The RAM 102 is a main memory that loads and executes various programs and secures a buffer and a working area. The CPU 103 is a processing device that controls the overall operation of the present system. The timer 104 is used to measure time, and is used, for example, to determine a sounding timing in an automatic performance based on performance data. The external storage device 105 is, for example, a hard disk, and stores programs executed by the CPU and various data. The external storage device 105 stores performance data to be created and edited.

The MIDI interface 106 is a MIDI standard interface for connecting to an external electronic musical instrument 107. As a result, MIDI performance data created by the external device can be input, and MIDI performance data created and edited by the present apparatus can be output to the external device. The operator 109 is an input device such as a mouse and a keyboard for the user to operate. The operation of the operation element 109 is detected by the detection circuit 108. Display 111
Is a monitor for displaying various information, and the display circuit 110 is a drive circuit of the display 111.

The tone generator 112 generates and outputs a musical tone based on an instruction from the CPU 103. Sound system 1
Reference numeral 13 emits a tone based on the tone signal output from the tone generator 112. The communication I / F 114 is an interface for connecting to various external communication networks 115 such as a LAN and the Internet. MIDI performance data can also be input and output via this network.

In the configuration shown in FIG. 1, for example, a sound source board (sound source circuit) and a MIDI input / output card are mounted on a general-purpose personal computer (PC), predetermined editing software is installed, and the MIDI interface is installed. This can be realized by connecting an electronic musical instrument. The editing software applies various musical expressions and playing styles to the MIDI performance data in order to realize a more natural performance, a beautiful performance, or a vivid performance with respect to the MIDI performance data. It has the function of editing to apply.

Hereinafter, the editing function for MIDI performance data will be described in detail. When the user performs a predetermined operation in the system shown in FIG. 1, a mode for editing MIDI performance data can be entered. FIG. 2 shows an example of a screen displayed on the display 111 in the edit mode. A plurality of icons 201, 202, 2 are displayed on the screen 200.
03 is displayed. Each icon is an icon for designating what kind of editing is performed on the MIDI performance data, and is described so that the state before editing and the state after editing are clearly understood. For example, the icon 201
Indicates that the MIDI performance data to be edited is searched for a “quarter semitone up” portion as indicated by 211 and choking is added to the portion as indicated by 212. The icon 202 indicates the MID to be edited.
As shown in 221, a portion where the pitch is changed from descending to ascending is searched for in the I performance data, and a glissando down is added to the searched note as indicated in 222. Similarly, other icons 203
Also, the state or the state of the part 231 before the editing is changed to the state shown in 232 by searching is displayed in a design or a word that can be immediately understood only by referring to the icon 203. When the number of icons is too large to fit on one screen, a scroll bar or the like may be provided, and all icons may be displayed by scrolling.

The user selects an icon indicating a process to be performed on the MIDI performance data from the icons displayed as shown in FIG. 2 by clicking with a mouse. The selected icon is displayed by changing its display form, such as inverting or changing its color, so that the user can see at a glance which icon is selected. A plurality of icons can be selected. After selecting some icons, the user clicks the edit start button 204. As a result, the MI to be edited
Editing processing corresponding to the selected icon is performed on the DI performance data. Note that the icon can be deselected by clicking the selected icon again.

FIG. 3 shows the RAM 102 and the external storage device 10.
5 shows a configuration example of MIDI performance data to be edited, which is stored in No. 5; The performance data includes setting information 301
And performance information 302. The setting information 301 is information that defines a tone color, a volume, a tempo, and the like. The performance information 302 includes a sequence of timing data 303 and event data 304. Timing data 303
Is data for setting a time interval from the performance start time or the time when the previous event occurs to the time when the next event occurs. The event data 304 includes a note-on event for instructing the generation of a note, a choking, a glissando
This is a control event for instructing a down or the like.

FIG. 4 shows display information for displaying the icons as described in FIG. 401 to 403
The display information of one icon is shown. Display information of one icon, for example, display information 4 of icon A
01, search data 404 and template 405
Are recorded in association with each other. The search data 404 corresponds to 211, 221, and 231 in FIG. 2 and is data that defines what part is to be searched from the performance data to be edited. The template 405 corresponds to 2 in FIG.
Data corresponding to 12, 222, and 232, and data specifying what kind of editing is performed on the searched portion. The display information, search data, and template are R
It is stored in the OM 101 and the RAM 102.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the contents of the selection buffer secured on the RAM 102. The selection buffer 501 stores information on the icon selected as described with reference to FIG. For example, FIG. 5 shows that icons B and C have been selected. The selection buffer 501 may store all of the editing instruction information (search data and template) corresponding to the selected icon, or may store only information for specifying the selected icon, and store it as necessary. The user may access the editing instruction information.

FIG. 6 shows the flow of the editing process. When entering the edit mode by a predetermined operation by the user,
Each icon of FIG. 2 is displayed on the display 111 in advance.

At step 601, it is determined whether or not the user has selected an icon. If an icon has been selected, an edit instruction corresponding to the selected icon is written to the selection buffer 501 in step 602. When there is no icon selection in step 601, or after step 602, it is determined in step 603 whether or not icon selection has been released. If the selection has been released, the editing instruction corresponding to the released icon is deleted from the selection buffer 501 in step 604. If there is no icon release, or after step 604, step 60
In step S5, it is determined whether or not an edit start instruction, that is, an edit start button 204 has been clicked. If there is no instruction to start editing, the process returns to step 601 to continue the process of selecting and canceling the icon. If there is an instruction to start editing in step 605, then in step 606 the selection buffer 501 is selected.
In accordance with the editing instruction written in, the editing process is performed on the performance data to be edited, and the process ends. The processing of step 606 may use a conventionally known technique.

In the above embodiment, a plurality of icons are selected, and all editing corresponding to the icon selected at the time of operating the editing start button is performed.
The icon may be used as a switch to perform editing corresponding to the operated icon each time the icon is operated.

It is desirable that the content displayed on the icon is a picture or a graphic that allows the user to understand the editing corresponding to the icon at a glance. However, even if the search content and the edited content are displayed in characters or sentences, Good. The point is that any display may be used so that the user can easily understand what data is searched and edited.

The editing software according to the above-described embodiment is the ROM 102 or the external storage device 105 which is H
Stored in a DD (hard disk drive), etc.
What is necessary is just to read out and execute when the user instructs the editing. By adopting a method of storing the editing software in the HDD, it is possible to easily add or upgrade the editing software. As the external storage device 105, a device using various forms of media such as a CD-ROM drive, a floppy disk device, or a magneto-optical disk (MO) device can be applied in addition to the HDD. The editing software may be downloaded using a network.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, search data for specifying a portion to be edited in performance data, and editing contents to be applied to the portion to be edited searched by the search data Is displayed, and the icon is selected and edited, so that the location to be automatically edited and the editing content can be easily understood, and the editing can be performed easily. That is, when various musical expressions are added to the performance data, it is possible to easily present and select the function of each expression rule from a plurality of musical expression rule sets.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a screen displayed on a display in an edit mode.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of MIDI performance data to be edited;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing display information for displaying icons.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of a selection buffer secured on a RAM;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of an editing process.

[Explanation of symbols]

101: read only memory (ROM), 102: random access memory (RAM), 103: central processing unit (CPU), 104: timer, 105: external storage device,
106 MIDI interface (I / F), 108
... Detection circuit, 109 ... Operator, 110 ... Display circuit, 11
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Display, 112 ... Sound source circuit, 113 ... Sound system, 114 ... Communication I / F, 116 ... Communication bus.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An editing instruction apparatus for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment on an electronic musical instrument, comprising: search data for specifying a portion to be edited in the performance data; Storage means for storing template data representing editing contents to be applied to a portion to be edited searched for by data; display means for displaying icons representing the contents of the search data and template data; and Selecting means for selecting an icon to be used; searching the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to specify a portion to be edited; and adding template data corresponding to the selected icon to the specified portion. An editing instruction device, comprising: editing means for performing editing according to the editing instruction. 2. The editing instruction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an operation means for instructing a start of editing of said performance data, wherein said selection means is selected from a plurality of icons displayed by said display means. An editing instruction apparatus, wherein a plurality of icons can be selected, and the editing means performs editing corresponding to each of the plurality of selected icons collectively. 3. The editing instruction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays the contents of the search data and the template data with an icon including a picture or a pattern for visually expressing the contents. An editing instruction device characterized by the following. 4. An editing instruction method for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment with an electronic musical instrument, comprising: search data for specifying a portion to be edited in the performance data; A step of storing template data representing editing contents to be applied to a portion to be edited retrieved by the data; a step of displaying icons representing the contents of the search data and the template data; and utilizing the displayed icons. Selecting an icon; searching the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to specify a portion to be edited; and editing the specified portion according to template data corresponding to the selected icon. Editing instruction method. 5. An editing instruction program for editing performance data for performing an automatic performance or an automatic accompaniment on an electronic musical instrument, wherein the search data specifies a portion to be edited in the performance data, and A step of preparing in advance template data representing editing contents to be applied to a portion to be edited retrieved by the data, and displaying an icon representing the contents of the search data and the template data; and Selecting an icon to be used from the search data, and searching the performance data with search data corresponding to the selected icon to specify a portion to be edited, and adding the template data corresponding to the selected icon to the specified portion. Editing according to the editing instruction program.