JP2010231248A - Electronic musical instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic musical instrument by which spread feeling and sound quality feeling close to a natural musical instrument are obtained. <P>SOLUTION: The electronic musical instrument which generates musical sound according to operator's key operation on the key, by detecting an operation state of a plurality of keys, includes: a detecting means for detecting whether or not, another key which is a predetermined pitch different from the operated key in the plurality of keys, is under a key pressing state, when key operation is performed; a resonance means which generates resonance sound in addition, corresponding to the musical sound generated according to the operated key, with a sound volume of the musical sound generated according to the operated key, and a sound volume according to the pitch difference, corresponding to the key in which the detecting means detects the key operation state; and a sound output means for outputting the musical sound and the resonance sound. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic musical instrument, and more particularly to an electronic musical instrument that is suitable for use in an electronic musical instrument imitating an acoustic piano so that a musical sound closer to a natural musical instrument can be generated.

  When an electronic musical instrument tries to generate a sound closer to a natural musical instrument, it is necessary to collect the original sound and reproduce it faithfully. For example, in an acoustic piano such as a grand piano, when a keyboard is played and a hammer hits a string, it is known that a resonance sound is generated by resonating with a string or soundboard that is in harmony with the hit string. It has been. An actual acoustic piano generates rich musical sounds by generating various resonance sounds separately from the original sound as described above.

Therefore, in order to obtain such a resonance effect in an electronic musical instrument, for example, Patent Document 1 proposes the following technique.
That is, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, when a key having a specific relationship with the key being pressed is pressed, a sound generated by playing the acoustic piano is generated by adding a resonance sound generated by the key pressing. A technique has been proposed that can generate performance sounds close to.

JP-A-6-118956

  The electronic musical instrument described in Patent Document 1 discloses the idea of adding a resonance sound to a keystroke sound and generating a sound, but it has not been devised how to generate the resonance sound to be added. For this reason, even if a resonance sound is added to generate a performance sound close to an acoustic piano, there is no contrivance for outputting the original sound and the resonance sound, so the sound is mixed and the contour There was a problem that it was difficult to obtain a clear and clear sound quality.

  For this reason, in the case of the electronic musical instrument described in Patent Document 1, there is a limit in reproducing a wide rich musical sound to which a resonance sound unique to a natural musical instrument is added, such as an acoustic piano. It was.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic musical instrument that provides a sense of spaciousness and sound quality similar to those of a natural musical instrument in an electronic musical instrument resonance generating apparatus that generates a resonant sound from an original sound. And

The electronic musical instrument of the present invention is an electronic musical instrument that detects the operation status of a plurality of keys and generates a musical sound in response to a key operation of the key by the operator. Of the plurality of keys, a detecting means for detecting whether another key having a predetermined pitch difference from the key that has been played is already depressed, and a key for which the detecting means has detected the depressed state Corresponding to the musical sound generated in response to the key being played at a volume corresponding to the volume of the musical sound generated in response to the key that has been played and the pitch difference. Resonating means for separately generating sound, and sound emitting means for emitting the musical sound and the resonance sound are provided.
Another feature of the present invention is that the resonance means determines a volume difference between the resonance sound and the musical sound according to how many octaves the pitch difference is.
Another feature of the present invention is that, when the pitch difference is within N octaves, the volume of the resonance sound is reduced by (N + 1) decibels relative to the volume of the musical sound. To do.
Another feature of the present invention is that the pitch difference is a key difference between the key that has been played and the other key that is already depressed, and the detection means includes: The key difference is “+ 12 * N + 2 (N: 3)”, “+ 12 * N + 10 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 4 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 7 (N: 1) )] And / or “+ 12 * N (N: 1)” (where N is the octave number).
Another feature of the present invention is that the pitch of the resonance is the pitch of the bullet key.
Another feature of the present invention is that the pitch difference is a key difference between the key that has been played and the other key that is already depressed, and the detection means includes: The key difference is “+7”, “+5”, “± 1”, “−5”, “−7”, “−12 * N (N: 1)” and / or “−12 * N−7N”. (N: 1) ”(where N is the octave number).
Another feature of the present invention is that the resonance pitch is “key pressing key + 19 key” when the pitch difference is “+7”, and “key pressing key + 24 key” when “+5”. ”,“ ± 1 ”,“ key pressing key ”,“ −5 ”“ key pressing key + 19 key ”,“ −7 ”“ key pressing key + 12 key ”,“ −12 * N ” "(N: 1)" and / or "-12 * N-7N (N: 1)" are "key pressing keys".

  According to the present invention, when a key operation is performed, it is detected whether or not a key having a specific relationship with the key that has been pressed is already pressed. If a key that is in a relationship has already been pressed, the relationship between the key that has been pressed and the key that has been pressed is checked, and the key that has been pressed and the key that has been pressed Is a specific relationship set in advance, the tone of the key that has been struck is sounded, and a predetermined tone based on the relationship between the key that has been struck and the key that has been pressed, Since the position of the pressed key is generated as a sound source, it is possible to provide an electronic musical instrument that can provide a feeling of spaciousness and sound quality similar to a natural musical instrument.

It is a block diagram which shows embodiment of this invention and demonstrates the principal part structure of an electronic piano. It is a figure which shows the external appearance of the electronic piano of embodiment. It is a flowchart explaining the outline of the process performed at the time of a key-on event. It is a flowchart explaining the outline of the storage process performed when a key is pressed at the time of a keystroke. It is a figure which shows the example of a specific relationship with a keystroke and key pressing.

  Next, embodiments of the electronic musical instrument of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an embodiment of an electronic piano to which the present invention is applied.
1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 101, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 102, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 103, an operation panel unit 104 connected via a panel scan circuit 104a on a system bus 100, A keyboard unit 105 and a tone generator circuit 106 connected via a keyboard scan circuit 105a are connected to each other, and various commands and data are transferred to these devices through the system bus 100. .

  The tone generator circuit 106 includes a DSP (DigitalSignal Processor (not shown)) for processing a musical sound signal output therefrom, and D / A conversion circuits 121a and 121b for converting the musical sound signal processed there into an analog signal. And main amplifiers 122a and 122b for amplifying the same.

  A speaker 123a is provided for sounding the original sound sequence signal L1 output from the main amplifier 122a, and a speaker 123b is provided for sounding the original sound sequence signal R1 output from the main amplifier 122b. ing.

  In the present embodiment, the resonance sound generation circuit 10 is provided, and one of the original sound sequence signals L1 output from the sound source circuit 106 is supplied to the resonance sound generation circuit 10 to be described later. In addition, when a key with a specific relationship is pressed when a key is played, a resonance sound is generated, so that a musical sound with a sense of spaciousness and sound quality similar to natural instruments can be generated. ing.

  The CPU 101 controls each part of the electronic piano according to a control program stored in a program memory storage part of the ROM 102. The application program stored in the program memory storage unit is executed, and if necessary, the RAM 103 is used as a work area, and data processing is performed using various fixed data stored in the ROM 102.

  As described above, the ROM 102 stores various fixed data used by the CPU 101 in addition to a program for controlling the entire electronic piano.

  The RAM 103 stores apparatus status information and is used as a work area for the CPU 101. Various registers and flags for controlling the electronic piano are defined in the RAM 103, and the RAM 103 is accessed by the CPU 101 via the system bus 100.

  The operation panel unit 104 is provided with various switches such as a power switch and a tone color selection switch, and a display for displaying predetermined information. The panel scan circuit 104a interposed between the operation panel unit 104 and the system bus 100 checks the set / reset state of each switch (not shown) provided in the operation panel unit 104 and is turned on. Panel switch data is detected and sent to the CPU 101.

  The keyboard unit 105 includes a plurality of keyboards and a keyboard switch that opens and closes in conjunction with key depression and key release. The keyboard scan circuit 105a interposed between the keyboard unit 105 and the system bus 100 checks the state of the keyboard switch, and generates touch data indicating the strength (speed) of the keyboard touch from the signal indicating the ON / OFF. In addition, ON or OFF information and its keyboard number are output. The ON / OFF information, keyboard number, and touch data are sent to the CPU 101 via the system bus 100.

  The tone generator circuit 106 reads out the original sound waveform data corresponding to the signal output from the CPU 101 from the waveform memory 107, multiplies the musical sound waveform data by an envelope, and outputs it as left and right music signal.

  The resonance generation circuit 10 is built in the above-described DSP. In this embodiment, the output of the resonance generation circuit 10 is not added to the signal of the original sound component but is processed by another system. ing. The resonance generated by the resonance generation circuit 10 is processed in two series.

  That is, D / A conversion circuits 121c and 121d for converting a digital resonance signal output from the resonance generation circuit 10 into an analog signal, and main amplifiers 122c and 122d for amplifying the D / A conversion circuits 121c and 121d are provided. In addition, a speaker 123c that generates the left resonance signal L2 output from the main amplifier 122c to the outside is provided, and a speaker 123d that generates the right resonance signal R2 output from the main amplifier 122d to the outside is provided. ing.

  In FIG. 2, the external appearance of the electronic piano of this embodiment is shown. As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic piano of this embodiment is configured as an electronic piano having the appearance of a grand piano. As an advantage of this type of electronic piano, there is space in the depth direction in addition to the high-quality appearance, so there is a large degree of freedom in speaker placement, and a large number of speakers can be placed upward, so powerful sound Can be played.

  In the configuration of the electronic piano, in order to simplify the configuration not directly related to the present invention, the above-described speakers for reproducing the original sound 123a and 123b and the resonance sound reproducing 123c and 123d are connected to the left and right sides of the electronic piano. An example of arrangement on both sides is shown. However, when actually configuring an electronic piano, it is desirable that the original sound sequence be reproduced from low to high sounds, and it is obvious that a generally known 2-way, 3-way system or a full-range speaker may be used. Yes.

  The resonance generation circuit 10 generates a resonance signal from the input original sound signal. A known configuration can be adopted as a configuration for generating the resonance signal. For example, an unnecessary bass component and treble component are cut by a band pass filter, and a signal that attenuates while being delayed by the filter is created. Then, the signal may be further delayed to add a reverberant signal.

  Further, the volume of the resonance generated by the resonance generation circuit 10 in the DSP is set corresponding to the velocity. That is, the resonance sound is loud when the keyboard is played strongly, and the resonance sound is small when the keyboard is played softly.

  The above is the outline of the method for creating the resonance sound. In this embodiment, the computer system comprising the CPU 101, the ROM 102 and the RAM 103 constitutes the key pressing state detection means and the specific relationship detection means, and a predetermined sound is played during the performance. A predetermined resonance sound is generated when the condition is satisfied. Hereinafter, the operation of the electronic piano of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4.

  As shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3, when the process is started, in the first step S31, the keyboard scan circuit 105a detects whether or not a key-on event (bullet key) has occurred. When it is detected by the panel scan circuit 104a that the keystroke operation has been performed, the process proceeds to step S32, and whether or not another key is pressed when the key is pressed is determined. Detection is performed by the state detection means.

  As a result of detection by the key pressing state detecting means, if no other key is pressed when the key is played, the process proceeds to step S33, and normal sound generation processing is performed. As a result of the detection in step S32, if another key is pressed when a bullet is played, the process proceeds to step S34, and a string resonance (hereinafter referred to as a stress) process is performed. The above-mentioned storage process will be described later in detail.

  Next, in step S35, it is detected whether or not a key-off event has occurred. As a result, if the key-off event has not occurred, the process returns to step S31 to repeat the above-described processing. If the occurrence of a key-off event is detected in step S35, the process proceeds to step S36, a mute process is performed, and the process ends.

Next, the outline of the storage process performed in step S34 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
In this strezo process, the following process is performed after performing a normal sound generation process performed in accordance with a bullet key.

  First, in the first step S41, it is detected whether or not a specific key is pressed when a key is played. This detection is performed toward a lower musical scale than the key on which the key was played. For example, the data table shown in FIG. 5 is stored in the ROM 102 as a specific relationship between the bullet key and the key depression.

  As shown in FIG. 5, in this embodiment, a resonance sound is generated when the difference between the key depression and the keystroke field key, that is, (ballistic key minus key depression) has a specific relationship. In the example illustrated in FIG. 5, “+ 12 * N + 2 (N: 3)”, “+ 12 * N + 10 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 4 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 7 (N : 1)) and “+ 12 * N (N: 1)”, the resonance sound is generated by the key of the bullet key. A specific example is as shown in FIG.

  In addition, when the value of (bullet key minus key press) is “+7”, “key press key + 19 key”, “+5” is “key press key + 24 key”, and “± 1” is “key press key”. ”,“ −5 ”,“ key press key + 19 key ”, and“ −7 ”,“ key press key + 12 key ”,“ −12 * N (N: 1) ”and“ −12 * N ”. In the case of “-7N (N: 1 to 1)”, a “resonance sound” is generated by the “key pressing key”.

  If the result of determination in step S41 is that a key having a specific relationship as shown in FIG. 5 has been depressed, processing proceeds to step S42, where resonance sound generation processing is performed. This sound generation process will be described in detail later.

  Next, the process proceeds to step S43, and it is determined whether or not the sound generation processing of the resonance sound has been performed for three keys. As a result of the determination, if the sound generation process for three keys is performed, the process returns from the sound generation process. If the sound generation process for three keys is not performed, it is determined whether or not the key pressing state has been investigated up to the key located at the bottom. If the result of this determination is that the lowest key has not been checked, processing returns to step S41 and the above-described processing is repeated.

  As a result of the determination in step S44, when the lowest key is checked, the presence / absence of the key applicable to the specific key is sequentially determined from the lowest key among the depressed keys higher than the bullet key. . If the result of this determination is that the specific key has been depressed, processing proceeds to step S46, where resonance sound generation processing is performed.

  Next, in step S47, it is determined whether or not the resonance sound generation process has been performed for three keys. As a result of this determination, when three keys are used, the process is terminated and the process returns. If not performed for three keys, the process returns to step S45 to repeat the above-described processing. If the uppermost key is checked, the storage process is terminated and the process returns.

  A monophonic sound is used as the resonance sound for strezo. This is because it is effective to set the resonance sound generation position to the place where the key is pressed. That is, the resonance sound generation circuit 10 generates a monaural resonance sound and generates sound from the left and right speakers 123c and 123d at a volume corresponding to the key depression position, thereby panning the sound generation position. Therefore, when the key pressing position is the center, the left and right speakers 123c and 123d are sounded at the same volume, and when the key pressing position is the left side, the left side of the electronic piano is positioned on the right side from the speaker 123c. Sound is produced with a louder volume than the speaker 123d. On the other hand, if the key pressing position is on the right side, the speaker 123d arranged on the right side of the electronic piano produces a sound with a louder volume than the speaker 123c arranged on the left side.

  By producing such a sound, it becomes possible to make the position where the resonance sound is produced to be the key depression position, and it is possible to obtain a sense of spaciousness and sound quality similar to a natural instrument such as an acoustic piano. .

  In the present embodiment, the volume of the resonance is controlled based on the relationship between the key and the key depression. For example, with respect to the highest resonance sound, if the relationship between the keystroke and key press is “within 1 octave”, “decrease 2 dB”, “within 2 octave”, “decrease 3 dB”, “3 octave” If it is “within”, the volume of the resonance sound is set such as “lower 4 dB”.

  In the electronic piano of the present embodiment, as described above, the resonance sound of the monaural sound is generated, and the sounding sound volume is varied according to the key pressing position, so that the natural sound generated from the acoustic piano is generated. A resonance sound close to the resonance sound can be generated.

  It should be noted that the resonance generating device for an electronic musical instrument of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it is needless to say that various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

(Other embodiments of the present invention)
In order to operate various devices to realize the functions of the above-described embodiments, program codes of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments are provided to an apparatus or a computer in the system connected to the various devices. What is implemented by operating the various devices according to a program supplied and stored in a computer (CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus is also included in the scope of the present invention.

  In this case, the program code itself of the software realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the program code itself and means for supplying the program code to the computer, for example, the program code are stored. The recorded medium constitutes the present invention. As a recording medium for recording the program code, for example, a flexible disk, a hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, or the like can be used.

  Further, by executing the program code supplied by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also the OS (operating system) or other application software in which the program code is running on the computer, etc. Such a program code is also included in the embodiment of the present invention even when the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized in cooperation with the embodiment.

  Further, after the supplied program code is stored in the memory provided in the function expansion board of the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the CPU provided in the function expansion board or function expansion unit based on the instruction of the program code Etc. perform part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

10 Resonant Sound Generation Circuit 100 System Bus 101 CPU
102 ROM
103 RAM
104 Operation Panel Unit 104a Panel Scan Circuit 105 Keyboard Unit 105a Keyboard Scan Circuit 106 Sound Source Circuit 107 Waveform Memory 121a to 121d D / A Conversion Circuits 122a to 122d Main Amplifiers 123a to 123d Speaker

Claims (7)

An electronic musical instrument that detects the operation status of a plurality of keys and generates a musical sound in response to a key operation of the key by the operator,
Detecting means for detecting whether or not another key having a predetermined pitch difference from the key that has been played is already depressed when the key is played;
Corresponding to the key for which the detection means has detected the key depression state, the key that has been played at a volume corresponding to the volume of the musical sound that is generated in response to the key that has been played and the pitch difference. A resonance means for separately generating a resonance sound corresponding to the musical sound generated in response,
An electronic musical instrument comprising sound emitting means for emitting the musical sound and the resonance sound.   2. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the resonance unit determines a volume difference between the resonance sound and the musical sound according to how many octaves the pitch difference is.   3. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 2, wherein when the pitch difference is within N octaves, the volume of the resonance sound is lowered by (N + 1) decibels relative to the volume of the musical sound. The pitch difference is a key difference between the key that is played and the other key that is already depressed.
In the detection means, the key difference is “+ 12 * N + 2 (N: 3)”, “+ 12 * N + 10 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 4 (N: 2)”, “+ 12 * N + 7”. 2. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein (N: 1) ”and / or“ + 12 * N (N: 1) ”(where N is an octave number) is detected.   The electronic musical instrument according to claim 4, wherein a pitch of the resonance sound is a pitch of the bullet key. The pitch difference is a key difference between the key that is played and the other key that is already depressed.
In the detection means, the key difference is “+7”, “+5”, “± 1”, “−5”, “−7”, “−12 * N (N: 1)” and / or “−”. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the electronic musical instrument detects a case of “12 * N−7N (N: 1)” (where N is an octave number).   When the pitch difference is “+7”, the resonance pitch is “key press key + 19 key”, “+5” is “key press key + 24 key”, and “± 1” is “key press key”. ”,“ −5 ”,“ key pressing key + 19 key ”, and“ −7 ”,“ key pressing key + 12 key ”,“ −12 * N (N: 1) ”and / or“ −12 ”. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 6, wherein “* N-7N (N: 1)” is a “key pressing key”.

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