JP2011081251A - Electronic musical instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate understanding pitch of sound in animal call of a dog and a cat or the like. <P>SOLUTION: An electronic musical instrument 1 includes: a keyboard 13b associated with musical scale; a speaker 11 for output of musical sound to the outside; a musical sound database 72 storing musical sound data for timbre of a musical instrument and for animal call; and a control unit 6 allowing the speaker 11 to output the musical sound at a sound pitch which is associated with a keyboard depressed by a user in the keyboard 13b. When a user depresses an arbitrary keyboard in the keyboard 13b, the control unit 6 reads out the musical sound data for the animal call from a reference musical sound database 74 and sets the musical sound based on the musical sound data as main musical sound, reads out the musical sound data for the timbre of the musical instrument from a musical scale database 73 and sets the musical sound based on the musical sound data as sub musical sound, and allows the speaker 11 to output the main musical sound and the sub musical sound so as to reduplicate. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic musical instrument that can output an animal cry and a timbre of a musical instrument in an overlapping manner.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, electronic musical instruments have been developed in which the sounds of animals such as dogs and cats are stored (see, for example, Patent Document 1). This electronic musical instrument can output the cry of an animal selected as an output timbre by a user at a desired pitch.

JP 2004-233853 A (paragraph [0015])

  However, in the electronic musical instrument as described above, since the animal call is output alone, it is difficult to understand the pitch of the output animal call.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic musical instrument that can easily understand the pitch of animals such as dogs and cats.

The invention of claim 1 is an electronic musical instrument,
A group of input keys associated with the scale;
A musical sound output unit for outputting musical sounds to the outside;
A musical tone data storage unit for storing musical tone data of musical instruments and animal sounds;
A control unit that causes the musical tone output unit to output a musical tone having a pitch associated with the key pressed by the user in the input key group;
The controller is
When the user presses any key in the input key group,
The musical sound data of the animal call is read from the musical sound data storage unit, the musical sound based on the musical sound data is set as the main musical tone, and the musical tone data of the musical instrument is read from the musical sound data storage unit. A musical tone based on data is set as a sub musical tone, and the main musical tone and the sub musical tone are overlapped and output to the musical tone output unit.

The invention of claim 2 is the electronic musical instrument according to claim 1,
Mode selection means for selecting, based on a user operation, a single musical tone output mode for outputting only the main musical tone or a multiple musical tone output mode for outputting the main musical tone and the sub musical tone in an overlapping manner;
The controller is
In the single tone output mode,
When the user presses any key in the input key group, only the main musical sound is output to the musical sound output unit,
In the multiple tone output mode,
When the user presses any key in the input key group, the main tone and the sub tone are overlapped and output to the tone output unit.

The invention of claim 3 is the electronic musical instrument according to claim 1 or 2,
A musical tone generator that generates musical data of other pitches by changing the frequency of musical data of a predetermined reference pitch among the scales corresponding to the input keys,
The musical sound data storage unit
For the animal call, the musical tone data at the reference pitch only is stored,
The controller is
When the user presses any key in the input key group,
When the pitch associated with the pressed key is the reference pitch,
Reading the musical sound data of the animal call at the reference pitch from the musical sound data storage unit, and setting the musical sound of the musical sound data as the main musical sound,
When the pitch associated with the pressed key is the other pitch,
The musical tone data of the animal call at the reference pitch is read from the musical tone data storage unit, and the musical tone generation unit is changed to change the frequency of the musical tone data, thereby generating musical tone data at the other pitches, The musical tone of the generated musical tone data is set as the main musical tone.

The invention of claim 4 is the electronic musical instrument according to claim 3,
The reference pitch is “Fa” or “So”.

The invention of claim 5 is the electronic musical instrument according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The musical instrument is a xylophone.

The invention of claim 6 is the electronic musical instrument according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The musical sound data storage unit stores musical sound data of multiple types of animal calls,
The electronic musical instrument includes a call selection means for selecting a desired type from the plurality of types of animal calls based on a user operation.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the user presses any key in the input key group, the musical sound data of the animal call is read from the musical sound data storage unit, and the musical sound based on the musical sound data is the main sound. Since the musical tone data of the tone color of the instrument is read from the musical tone data storage unit, the musical tone based on the musical tone data is set as the sub musical tone, and the main musical tone and the sub musical tone are superimposed and output. The instrument's timbre, which is easy to understand the pitch, and the animal's cry are output in layers. Therefore, it is possible to make it easier to understand the pitch of sounds that were difficult to understand using only the animal calls.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, in the single musical tone output mode, only the main musical tone is output when the user presses any key in the input key group, and in the multiple musical tone output mode, the user selects the input key group. When an arbitrary key is pressed, the main musical sound and the sub musical sound are superimposed and output, so the user selects whether to output the animal singing alone or to the musical instrument tone. be able to. Accordingly, various variations of performance can be enjoyed.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the musical tone data of only the reference pitch is stored in the musical tone data storage unit for the animal call, and the pitch associated with the key pressed by the user is the reference pitch. In this case, the musical tone data of the animal call at the reference pitch is read, the musical tone of the musical tone data is set as the main musical tone, and the pitch associated with the key pressed by the user is the other pitch. If the pitch is the pitch of the musical tone, the musical tone data of the animal call at the reference pitch is read out, and the musical tone data of other pitches is generated from the musical tone data of the reference pitch by the musical tone generator. Since the tone data of the tone data is set as the main tone, the amount of stored data can be reduced compared to the case where the tone data is stored in the tone data storage unit for all pitches of the scale. That.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the reference pitch of the musical sound data stored in the musical sound data storage unit is “m” of the middle pitch of one octave from “low” to high “high”. Since the reference pitch is a pitch near the both ends of the octave, for example, “do” or “shi”, the musical data of the reference pitch and the one pitch are compared. The difference in frequency from the musical tone data of the pitch farthest from the reference pitch in the octave is reduced. Therefore, any tone data in any one octave can be generated without significantly changing the frequency of the tone pitch data, so that accurate tone data can be easily generated. be able to.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the musical instrument that is superimposed on the animal cry is a xylophone, a crisp tone can be output in accordance with the animal cry. Therefore, it is possible to make it easier to understand the pitch of sounds that were difficult to understand using only animal calls.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the musical sound data storage unit stores musical sound data of a plurality of kinds of animal calls, and the user can select a desired sound from a plurality of kinds of animal calls using the call selection means. Since you can select the type, you can enjoy the performance of various animal calls.

It is a top view of an electronic musical instrument. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of an electronic musical instrument. It is a figure which shows the data structure of a scale database. It is a figure which shows the data structure of a reference | standard musical sound database. It is a flowchart which shows the musical tone output process in free mode. It is a flowchart which shows the musical tone output process in auto mode. It is a flowchart which shows the musical tone output process in easy mode.

  Embodiments of an electronic musical instrument according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[Appearance configuration]
FIG. 1 is a top view of an electronic musical instrument 1 in the present embodiment.
As shown in this figure, the electronic musical instrument 1 includes a display 10, a speaker 11, a lamp 12 and an operation unit 13.

  The display 10 is a part that displays a pre-registered music title name and the like.

  The speaker 11 is a part that outputs musical sounds to the outside. The lamp 12 is a portion that emits light in response to a performance by the user.

  The operation unit 13 includes keys and levers for the user to operate or play the electronic musical instrument 1. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the operation unit 13 includes a power / volume key 13a, a keyboard 13b, a music selection lever 13c, a pitch name key 13d, a musical tone switching key 13e, and a sub musical tone key 13f. , A line output key 13g and a mode switching key 13h.

  The power / volume key 13a is a key used for switching the power ON / OFF and adjusting the volume. In the present embodiment, the power / volume key 13a switches the power ON / OFF by a slide operation. Further, the power / volume key 13a has two types of switching positions “•” and “:” when the power is turned on, so that the output volume can be set to two types of “small” and “large”. You can choose from home. In the present embodiment, when the power is turned on from the power-off / volume key 13a, the voice “Hello! I am XXX (character name). It is output.

  The keyboard 13b is a key used for performance by the user and is associated with a musical scale. In this embodiment, the keyboard 13b is composed of white keys for one octave from a low “do” to a high “do”.

  The music selection lever 13c is a lever used to select a music piece to be played. Specifically, the music database 70 (see FIG. 2) described later in the electronic musical instrument 1 includes “Mickey Mouse March”, “Butterfly”, “Under a big chestnut tree”, “Open in the sun”, “Kirakira star”. The score data of each song of “Kare no Chorus” is registered in advance, and each time the music selection lever 13c is operated by the user, the selected music is switched in the above order. Note that when the user operates the music selection lever 13c, in this embodiment, the sound of “Gashan” is output and the selected music is played even when the performance sound of the selected music is output or when the output is stopped. It is designed to switch. In the present embodiment, when the music selection lever 13c is not operated with the power turned off, the selected music is set to “Mickey Mouse March”.

  The pitch name key 13d is used to switch between outputting a musical tone such as the tone of the musical instrument or outputting a pitch name such as “do”, “re”, “mi” uttered by the voice of the character. Key. For example, when the user presses the note name key 13d while the output musical tone is set to the tone of the musical instrument, the output musical tone is switched to the voice of a character such as “do”, “re”, “mi”, and the like. ing.

  The tone switching key 13e is a key used for switching output tones among a plurality of kinds of animal calls and instrument timbres. In the present embodiment, every time the tone switch key 13e is pressed by the user, the type of tone is switched in the order of piano, xylophone, violin, bell, dog, cat, cow, duck, junk sound. . In the present embodiment, when the musical performance is stopped, the selected musical sound is switched in the above order and the sampled sound is output every time the musical sound switching key 13e is pressed. In the present embodiment, when the musical tone switching key 13e is not pressed after turning the power OFF to ON, the type of musical tone is set to a piano tone color.

  The sub musical tone key 13f is a single musical tone output mode for outputting only the musical tone selected by the musical tone switching key 13e (hereinafter referred to as a main musical tone) or a different musical tone from the main musical tone (hereinafter referred to as a sub musical tone). This key is used to switch the output mode to a multiple tone output mode in which the main tone and the main tone are output.

  In the present embodiment, the sub musical tone is a xylophone tone. Further, in this embodiment, when the power is turned off and on and the sub musical tone key 13f is not pressed, the output mode is set to the single musical tone output mode.

  The serif output key 13g is a key used for outputting serifs by character voice. Specifically, in the later-described dialogue database 71 (see FIG. 2) of the electronic musical instrument 1, “great,” “great,” “jyodane,” “jojojo,” “gambare,” “fight” The speech data is stored, and when the speech output key 13g is pressed by the user, any of these speech data is selected at random and the speech is output. When the user presses the serif output key 13g, in the present embodiment, the serif is output regardless of whether the performance sound is output or when the output is stopped.

  The mode switching key 13h is a key used for switching the performance mode from the free mode, auto mode, and easy mode. The free mode is a mode in which the user can freely play by pressing the keyboard 13b. The auto mode is a mode in which automatic performance of the music selected by the music selection lever 13c starts when the user presses any key of the keys 13b. In the present embodiment, when the user presses any key of the keyboard 13b during automatic performance, the music is played again from the beginning. The easy mode is a mode in which the music selected by the music selection lever 13c is played one sound at a time when the user presses any key of the keys 13b at a desired timing.

  In the present embodiment, the performance mode is switched in the order of the free mode, the auto mode, and the easy mode each time the mode switching key 13h is pressed, whether the performance sound is output or when the output is stopped. Of the voices “Free mode”, “Auto mode”, “Easy mode”, the voice corresponding to the performance mode to be switched to is output. Further, in the present embodiment, when the free mode and the easy mode are set, after the performance by the user is finished, a sound “You played well” is output.

[Internal configuration]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the electronic musical instrument 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic musical instrument 1 includes a display unit 2, a tone output unit 3, a light emitting unit 4, an input unit 5, a control unit 6, a storage unit 7, and a tone generation unit 8.

  The display unit 2 includes the above-described display 10 and displays various information on the display 10 based on a display signal input from the control unit 6.

  The musical sound output unit 3 includes the speaker 11 described above, and outputs musical sound data to the speaker 11 based on a musical sound output signal input from the control unit 6.

  The light emitting unit 4 includes the lamp 12 described above, and causes the lamp 12 to emit light based on a light emission signal input from the control unit 6.

  The input unit 5 includes the operation unit 13 described above, and outputs a signal corresponding to the pressed key or lever to the control unit 6.

  The control unit 6 executes processing based on a predetermined program in response to an input instruction, performs an instruction to each function unit, data transfer, and the like, and comprehensively controls the electronic musical instrument 1. Yes. Specifically, the control unit 6 reads out various programs stored in the storage unit 7 according to an operation signal or the like input from the input unit 5 and executes processing according to the program. Then, the control unit 6 appropriately outputs a signal for outputting the processing result to the display unit 2 and the musical sound output unit 3 to display and output the corresponding contents.

  The storage unit 7 is a memory that stores programs and data for realizing various functions of the electronic musical instrument 1. In the present embodiment, the storage unit 7 stores a song database 70, a speech database 71, and a musical sound database 72.

  The music piece database 70 stores at least one kind of music piece and musical score data of the music piece in association with each other. In the present embodiment, the song database 70 stores songs such as “Mickey Mouse March”, “Butterfly”, “Under a big chestnut tree”, and musical score data.

  The serif database 71 stores serifs and the like that are output when the serif output key 13g is pressed.

  The musical tone database 72 stores musical tone data of musical instrument tones and animal calls. In this embodiment, the musical tone database 72 has a scale database 73 and a reference musical tone database 74.

  The musical scale database 73 stores a musical scale and musical tone data at each pitch of the musical scale in association with at least one kind of musical instrument, etc. In this embodiment, a piano, xylophone, violin, bell, character I remember about my voice. More specifically, in this scale database 73, as shown in FIG. 3, for each of the above-mentioned musical instruments and character voices, a scale corresponding to one octave from a low “do” to a high “do”, and the scale concerned. Are stored in association with musical tone data at each pitch. Note that the musical sound data of the character voice is the musical sound data uttered by the voice of the character, such as “do”, “le”, “mi”, etc. corresponding to each pitch of the scale.

  The reference musical sound database 74 stores a musical tone type and reference musical tone data at a predetermined reference pitch of the musical tone type in association with at least one type of musical tone. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the reference musical sound database 74 includes the types of musical sounds such as dogs, cats, cows, duck calls and junk sounds, and the reference musical sounds at the reference pitches of these types of musical sounds. Data is stored in association with each other. In the present embodiment, the reference pitch is “F”. That is, in the reference musical sound database 74, the reference musical sound data such as animal calls are all stored at the pitch of “F”.

  Based on the musical tone generation signal input from the control unit 6, the musical tone generation unit 8 changes the frequency of the musical tone data of the reference pitch among the scales corresponding to the keyboard b to obtain musical tone data of other pitches. It is designed to generate.

[Music sound output processing]
Next, the operation of the electronic musical instrument 1 will be described. Here, it is assumed that the performance mode is a multiple tone output mode and the main tone is set to a dog cry.
<Free mode>
First, the free mode will be described.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of a musical tone output process in which the controller 6 outputs a musical tone having a pitch associated with the keyboard b pressed by the user to the speaker 11 in the free mode.

  As shown in this figure, first, when the user presses an arbitrary key among the keys 13b (step S1), the control unit 6 detects a pitch associated with the pressed key 13b and outputs an output pitch. Set as “A” (step S2).

Next, the control unit 6 determines whether or not the output pitch “A” is the reference pitch “F” (step S3).
If it is determined in step S3 that the output pitch “A” is the pitch of “F” (step S3; YES), the control unit 6 uses the reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ”) is read out from the reference musical sound database 74 and the musical sound of the reference musical sound data is set as the main musical sound (step S4), and then the process proceeds to step S7 described later.

  If it is determined in step S3 that the output pitch “A” is not the sound of “Fah” (step S3; NO), the control unit 6 uses the reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ") is read out from the reference musical sound database 74 (step S5), and further, the musical tone generator 8 is caused to change the frequency of the reference musical sound data (pitch;" Fah "), so that the dog at the output pitch" A " To generate musical sound data. Then, the control unit 6 sets the dog cry of the generated musical sound data (pitch; “A”) as the main musical sound (step S6).

  Next, the control unit 6 reads the xylophone musical tone data at the output pitch “A” from the scale database 73 and sets the musical tone of the musical tone data as a sub musical tone (step S7).

  Then, the control unit 6 superimposes the main musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the dog's cry, and the sub musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the timbre of the xylophone, and causes the speaker 11 to output (step). S8), the musical tone output process is terminated.

<auto mode>
Next, the auto mode will be described. Here, a description will be given on the assumption that Mickey Mouse March is selected as a song to be played automatically.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the musical tone output process in which the controller 6 reads the musical score data of the selected song from the song database 70 and outputs it to the speaker 11 in the auto mode.

  As shown in this figure, first, when the user presses an arbitrary key among the keys 13b (step S9), the control unit 6 obtains the first note of the musical score data of the selected Mickey Mouse March from the song database 70. Read (step S10).

  Next, the control unit 6 sets the pitch of the read sound as the output pitch “A” (step S11).

Next, the control unit 6 determines whether or not the output pitch “A” is the reference pitch “F” (step S12).
If it is determined in step S12 that the output pitch “A” is the pitch of “F” (step S12; YES), the control unit 6 is the reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ”) is read from the reference musical sound database 74 and the musical sound of the reference musical sound data is set as the main musical sound (step S13), and then the process proceeds to step S16 described later.

  In Step S12, when it is determined that the output pitch “A” is not the sound of “Fa” (Step S12; NO), the control unit 6 performs reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ”) is read out from the reference musical sound database 74 (step S14), and the musical tone generator 8 is caused to change the frequency of the reference musical sound data (pitch;“ Fah ”), so that the dog at the output pitch“ A ”is changed. To generate musical sound data. Then, the control unit 6 sets the dog cry of the generated musical tone data (pitch; “A”) as the main musical tone (step S15).

  Next, the control unit 6 reads the xylophone musical tone data at the output pitch “A” from the scale database 73 and sets the musical tone of the musical tone data as a sub musical tone (step S16).

  Then, the control unit 6 superimposes the main musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the dog's cry, and the sub musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the tone of the xylophone, and causes the speaker 11 to output (step). S17).

  Next, the control unit 6 determines whether or not there is a sound to be output next in the musical score data of the Mickey Mouse March that is the selected song (step S18). If it is determined in step S18 that there is a sound to be output next (step S18; YES), the control unit 6 reads the next sound of the score data (step S19) and returns to step S11. As described above, as long as there is a sound to be output next, the control unit 6 repeats Steps S11 to S19.

  If it is determined in step S18 that there is no sound to be output next (step S18; NO), the musical sound output process ends.

<Easy mode>
Next, the easy mode will be described. Here, it is assumed that Mickey Mouse March is selected as a song to be played.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the musical tone output process in which the controller 6 reads the musical score data of the selected song from the song database 70 and outputs it to the speaker 11 in the easy mode.

  As shown in this figure, first, when the user presses an arbitrary key among the keys 13b (step S20), the control unit 6 obtains the first note of the musical score data of Mickey Mouse March, which is the selected song, from the song database 70. Read (step S21).

  Next, the control unit 6 sets the pitch of the read sound as the output pitch “A” (step S22).

Next, the control unit 6 determines whether or not the output pitch “A” is the reference pitch “F” (step S23).
When it is determined in step S23 that the output pitch “A” is the pitch of “F” (step S23; YES), the control unit 6 uses the reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ”) is read from the reference musical sound database 74 and the musical sound of the reference musical sound data is set as the main musical sound (step S24), and then the process proceeds to step S27 described later.

  In Step S23, when it is determined that the output pitch “A” is not the sound of “Fa” (Step S23; NO), the control unit 6 uses the reference musical tone data (pitch; “ F ”) is read out from the reference musical sound database 74 (step S25), and further, the musical tone generator 8 is caused to change the frequency of the reference musical sound data (pitch;“ Fah ”), so that the dog at the output pitch“ A ”. To generate musical sound data. Then, the control unit 6 sets the dog cry of the generated musical tone data (pitch; “A”) as the main musical tone (step S26).

  Next, the control unit 6 reads the xylophone musical tone data at the output pitch “A” from the scale database 73 and sets the musical tone of this musical tone data as a sub musical tone (step S27).

  Then, the control unit 6 superimposes the main musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the dog's cry, and the sub musical tone (pitch; “A”), which is the tone of the xylophone, and causes the speaker 11 to output (step). S28).

  Next, the control unit 6 determines whether or not there is a sound to be output next in the musical score data of the Mickey Mouse March that is the selected song (step S29). If it is determined in step S29 that there is a sound to be output next (step S29; YES), the controller 6 reads the next sound of the score data (step S30), and then the above-described step S20. Return to. As described above, as long as there is a sound to be output next and the user presses any key of the keyboard 13b, the control unit 6 repeats Steps S20 to S30.

  If it is determined in step 29 that there is no sound to be output next (step 29; NO), the musical sound output process is terminated.

  According to the electronic musical instrument 1 described above, when the user presses any key of the keyboard 13b, the reference musical tone data of the animal call is read from the reference musical tone database 74, and the musical tone based on the musical tone data is the main musical tone. The musical tone data of the musical instrument tone is read from the scale database 73, the musical tone based on the musical tone data is set as the sub musical tone, and the main musical tone and the sub musical tone are output in an overlapping manner. The tone of the instrument, whose height is easy to understand, and the cry of the animal are superimposed and output. Therefore, it is possible to make it easier to understand the pitch of sounds that were difficult to understand using only the animal calls.

  In the single musical tone output mode, only the main musical tone is output when the user presses an arbitrary key on the keyboard 13b. In the multiple musical tone output mode, when the user presses an arbitrary key on the keyboard 13b, Since the main musical sound and the sub musical sound are output in a superimposed manner, the user can select whether to output the animal cry alone or in a superimposed manner with the timbre of the musical instrument. Accordingly, various variations of performance can be enjoyed.

  In addition, for animal calls, reference musical tone data for only the reference pitch “F” is stored in the reference musical tone database 74, and the pitch associated with the keyboard 13b pressed by the user is “F”. , The reference musical tone data of the animal call with the pitch of “F” is read out, the musical tone of the reference musical tone data is set as the main musical tone, and the tone associated with the keyboard 13b pressed by the user When the pitch is another output pitch “A”, the reference musical tone data of the animal call with the pitch of “F” is read, and the musical tone data of the output pitch “A” is read from the reference musical tone data. Is generated by the musical tone generator 8, and the musical tone of the generated musical tone data is set as the main musical tone, so that the musical tone data is stored in the musical tone data storage unit for all pitches of the scale. Te, it is possible to reduce the stored data amount.

  In addition, since the reference pitch of the musical sound data stored in the reference musical sound database 74 is “F”, which is the middle pitch of one octave from “do” having a low scale to “do” having a high scale, Compared to the case where the pitch is a pitch near both ends of the octave, for example, “do” or “shi”, the reference musical sound data of the reference pitch is farthest from the reference pitch of the octave. The frequency difference from the musical tone data of the pitch is reduced. Therefore, any tone data within one octave can be generated without significantly changing the frequency of the reference tone data of the reference pitch “F”, so that accurate tone data can be generated. It can be easily generated.

  In addition, since the musical instrument that is superimposed on the animal cry is a xylophone, a crisp tone can be output in accordance with the animal cry. Therefore, it is possible to make it easier to understand the pitch of sounds that were difficult to understand using only animal calls.

  The reference musical sound database 74 stores reference musical sound data of a plurality of types of animal calls, and the user can select a desired type from a plurality of types of animal calls using the musical tone switching key 13e. Because you can, you can enjoy the performance of various animal calls.

  The embodiments to which the present invention can be applied are not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be appropriately changed without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the tone color of the musical instrument is described as being stored in association with the musical scale and the musical tone data at each pitch of the musical scale. In this embodiment, only the reference musical tone data at the reference pitch is stored, and the other musical tone data is generated by changing the frequency of the reference musical data. The musical sound data may be stored and generated in the same manner as the animal's cry, etc., or the musical sound data may be stored in the same manner as the musical instrument's timbre, etc. Good.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic musical instrument 2 Display part 3 Music output part 4 Light emission part 5 Input part 6 Control part 7 Memory | storage part 8 Music sound generation part 10 Display 11 Speaker 12 Lamp 13 Operation part 13a Power source / volume key 13b Keyboard 13c Song selection lever 13d Tone name key 13e Musical tone switching key 13f Sub musical tone key 13g Serif output key 13h Mode switching key 70 Song database 71 Serif database 72 Musical database 73 Scale database 74 Reference musical database

Claims (6)

A group of input keys associated with the scale;
A musical sound output unit for outputting musical sounds to the outside;
A musical tone data storage unit for storing musical tone data of musical instruments and animal sounds;
A control unit that causes the musical tone output unit to output a musical tone having a pitch associated with the key pressed by the user in the input key group;
The controller is
When the user presses any key in the input key group,
The musical sound data of the animal call is read from the musical sound data storage unit, the musical sound based on the musical sound data is set as the main musical tone, and the musical tone data of the musical instrument is read from the musical sound data storage unit. An electronic musical instrument characterized in that a musical tone based on data is set as a sub musical tone, and the main musical tone and the sub musical tone are superimposed and output to the musical tone output unit. Mode selection means for selecting, based on a user operation, a single musical tone output mode for outputting only the main musical tone or a multiple musical tone output mode for outputting the main musical tone and the sub musical tone in an overlapping manner;
The controller is
In the single tone output mode,
When the user presses any key in the input key group, only the main musical sound is output to the musical sound output unit,
In the multiple tone output mode,
2. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein when the user presses any key in the input key group, the main musical sound and the sub musical sound are overlapped and output to the musical sound output unit. A musical tone generator that generates musical data of other pitches by changing the frequency of musical data of a predetermined reference pitch among the scales corresponding to the input keys,
The musical sound data storage unit
For the animal call, the musical tone data at the reference pitch only is stored,
The controller is
When the user presses any key in the input key group,
When the pitch associated with the pressed key is the reference pitch,
The musical sound data of the animal call at the reference pitch is read from the musical sound data storage unit, and the musical sound of the musical sound data is set as the main musical sound,
When the pitch associated with the pressed key is the other pitch,
The musical tone data of the animal call at the reference pitch is read from the musical tone data storage unit, and the musical tone generation unit is changed to change the frequency of the musical tone data, thereby generating musical tone data at the other pitches, 3. The electronic musical instrument according to claim 1, wherein a musical tone of the generated musical tone data is set as the main musical tone.   The electronic musical instrument according to claim 3, wherein the reference pitch is “Fa” or “So”.   The electronic musical instrument according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the musical instrument is a xylophone. The musical sound data storage unit stores musical sound data of multiple types of animal calls,
The said electronic musical instrument is provided with the call selection means for selecting a desired kind from the said several kinds of animal call based on user operation, The said any one of Claim 1 to 5 characterized by the above-mentioned. Electronic musical instruments.

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