JP3372505B2 - Karaoke equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a so-called karaoke device, and more particularly to a karaoke device suitable for a system for playing a karaoke accompaniment by driving a musical tone synthesizer as a sound source device based on performance information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, using accompaniment music excluding the singing part of sung songs such as popular songs, so-called karaoke, a magnetic tape or an optical disk is used to reproduce accompaniment music while singing along with it. Karaoke devices are widely used. In many karaoke devices, the voice of a song is mixed with karaoke by adding a reverberation effect through a microphone (hereinafter, referred to as “microphone”), so that the song can be enjoyed as a richer one. Further, for example, in many karaoke devices using an optical disk, not only the accompaniment music reproduction performance but also the display device displays the lyrics information and further appropriate video information. The karaoke device used to enjoy such karaoke also has a variety of environments and situations in which karaoke can be enjoyed, types of accompaniment music, how to provide lyrics information, and how to set the environment according to the song. Is also diversifying.

In recent years, a musical sound synthesizer used in electronic musical instruments, computer music, etc., that is, a synthesizer is used as a sound source device, and such a sound source device is driven by performance information of the accompaniment music, and at the same time, the accompaniment music is reproduced. A karaoke device of the type in which the display is driven by the lyrics information together with the performance information to display the lyrics corresponding to the accompaniment music as characters is being developed. Unlike the conventional karaoke device, the karaoke device of this type has a relatively small amount of information data because the performance information is not voice information based on analog voice but information close to a score (score). It is also easy to handle performance information transmission and copying.

[0004]

By the way, the conventional karaoke apparatus is basically constructed as a system for enjoying only singing. Therefore, in many cases, only the singer enjoys and is satisfied when performing karaoke, and people other than the singer simply listen to the singer's song or evaluate the singer's singing. It was just like that. For this reason, karaoke can hardly be enjoyed by people who are not confident in their singing or who can not sing well, and it is necessary to participate in the place where karaoke is unavoidable due to socializing, etc. There were even pains. In addition, the karaoke device may be effectively monopolized by a specific person, and in such a case, another person who shares the device may become dissatisfied and cause a dispute. There was also.

However, among people who enjoy music, there are not a few people who are not good at singing but are good at playing musical instruments, and some who are not so fond of singing but like playing musical instruments. . I'm not very good at singing,
Many people want to practice playing musical instruments. Also, if karaoke can be used for practicing musical instruments in the same way that karaoke can be practiced, people other than the singer can also enjoy karaoke, and more people can enjoy karaoke. It is considered possible. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a karaoke device that allows not only singing but also musical instrument performances to be enjoyed and that many people can enjoy.

[0006]

A karaoke apparatus according to the present invention stores song data including lyrics information and drawing information for singing a karaoke song and musical tone synthesis type performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts for karaoke performance. Song data storage means,
Musical sound synthesizing means for generating a musical sound signal based on performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts included in music data and actual performance data of a specific musical instrument part input from outside, and a voice signal input from a microphone to the musical tone signal. Output means for mixing and outputting with, background display means for displaying a background image based on the drawing information included in the song data, and lyrics for displaying the lyrics image superimposed on the background image based on the lyrics information included in the song data display means, included in the music data, and outputs the performance data of a preset specific instrument part to the outside playing de
Data output means and external performance operation means for performing performance guide display based on the performance data output from the performance data output means and outputting the actual performance data to the musical sound synthesizing means in accordance with a performance operation. It is characterized in that the musical tone synthesizing means does not generate a musical tone signal based on performance data included in the music data of the specific musical instrument part.

Another karaoke apparatus according to the present invention is a song data storage means for storing song data including lyrics information and drawing information for singing a karaoke song and musical tone synthesis type performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts for karaoke performance. A musical sound synthesizing means for generating a musical sound signal based on the musical performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts contained in the music data and the actual musical performance data of a specific musical instrument part inputted from the outside, and the audio signal inputted from the microphone. Output means for mixing and outputting with a musical tone signal,
Background display means for displaying a background image based on drawing information included in the song data, lyrics display means for displaying a lyrics image superimposed on the background image based on lyrics information included in the song data, and included in the song data, and performance data output means for outputting performance data of a preset specific instrument part to the outside, performs a performance guide display based on the performance data output from the performance data output means, said playing de
And over motor and a slave intends the real performance data to performance operation and an external performance operation means for outputting the musical sound synthesizing means, the tone synthesis section, along with the tone signal based on the actual performance data of the particular instrument part , A musical tone signal is generated based on performance data included in the music data of the specific musical instrument part.

The data for displaying the performance guide is extracted and separated from the performance information included in the music data, for example. The performance guide display means displays, for example, performance timing and pitch as a performance guide.

In the karaoke apparatus of the present invention, performance data of a predetermined performance musical instrument is extracted from music performance information,
In accordance with the performance data, a guide is displayed to indicate to the performer the performance location of the electronic musical instrument that generates the real performance data by the performance operation corresponding to the predetermined performance musical instrument, and the performance data and the performance information are played. By using the data to generate musical sound information, it becomes possible to enjoy not only the singing but also the musical instrument performance, and people other than the singer can also participate and enjoy the song.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 schematically shows the configuration of a karaoke device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a MIDI (Musi
cal instrument digital interface) A musical instrument is connected, and performance guide data for the MIDI instrument is displayed according to the performance data extracted from the performance information in the song data of the karaoke performance, so that the MIDI instrument can be easily played according to the karaoke. In addition, the real performance data generated by the performance of the MIDI musical instrument is used for the musical tone synthesis together with the performance information.

The karaoke apparatus shown in FIG. 1 has a CPU (central processing unit) 11, a ROM (read-only memory) 12, and an R.
AM (readable and writable memory) 13, operation panel 14, tone synthesizer 15, microphone 16, mixer 17, speaker 1
8, a computer graphics device (hereinafter, referred to as “image creating device”) 19, an optical disk reproducing device (hereinafter,
"LD playback device") 20, image synthesizing device 21,
Display device (CRT) 22, hard disk device (HDD) 23, CD-ROM playback device (CD-RO)
M) 24, a floppy disk device (FDD) 25, a modem 26 and a MIDI musical instrument 27. A modem 26 is used here as a network interface. CPU11, ROM12, RA
M13, operation panel 14, tone synthesizing device 15, image creating device 19, LD reproducing device 20, hard disk device 2
3, floppy disk device 25, modem 26 and M
The IDI musical instrument 27 is coupled to the common bus BL.

The CPU 11 controls and manages the operation of the entire karaoke apparatus. The ROM 12 is written with an operation program including a performance control program and the like. The performance control program is a program for karaoke performance, and in this case, includes a program for extracting and separating performance data corresponding to a preset part of a specific musical instrument from performance information given by music data. I'm out. The RAM 13 is a memory used when the CPU 11 controls and manages the operation of the karaoke device. The operation program in the ROM 12 is loaded into the RAM 13 under the control of the CPU 11 when the karaoke apparatus is powered on. The operation panel 14 is provided with various operation units including switches and knobs for operating the karaoke apparatus.

The musical sound synthesizer 15 is a so-called music synthesizer which is driven by accompaniment performance information and performance output of a MIDI musical instrument 27 described later to generate a musical sound signal of accompaniment music. For example, a sound source unit such as a MIDI sound source and its control. And a control unit for controlling. The microphone 16 is used to input the voice of a singer who sings using this karaoke device. The mixer 17 mixes the output of the musical sound synthesizer 15 and the output of the microphone 16. An echo device or a reverb device for adding a reverberant sound component to the output of the microphone 16 is attached to the mixer 17 portion as needed. The speaker 18 is driven by the output of the mixer 17 in which the accompaniment music from the musical sound synthesizer 15 and the voice from the microphone 16 are mixed, and emits the accompaniment music and singing voice.

The image creating device 19 processes the character information such as lyrics and the drawing information such as a still image and a moving image supplied together with the accompaniment performance information to generate an image signal for display. LD
The playback device 20 functions when playing a karaoke piece specified to use the video information recorded on the optical disc, and the drawing information synchronizes the accompaniment performance information with the predetermined information of a predetermined frame of a predetermined disc. Video information including a still image or a moving image having a predetermined frame as a starting point is reproduced.
Therefore, it is desirable that the LD reproducing device 20 has an optical disc autochanger function. The image synthesizing device 21 outputs the output of the image creating device 19 and the LD reproducing device 20.
And the output of are combined to generate a combined video signal. The display device 22 displays the combined video signal combined by the image combining device 21.

The hard disk device 23 stores song data of karaoke songs including song name, singer name, release date, keyword, performance information, drawing information, bar line information, lyrics information and the like. In this case, the performance information in the music data includes performance data composed of, for example, MIDI data for each of a plurality of musical instruments. According to the music selection operation via the operation panel 14, the CPU 11 loads the music data of the selected music into the RAM 13. Then CPU1
Under the control of 1, the music data, which is sequentially read from the RAM 13 and is composed of accompaniment music data, lyric data, etc., is sent to the above-described musical tone synthesizer 15 and image generator 19.
Used for karaoke performances. CD-ROM player 24
Is used to read music data from a CD-ROM, which is a recording medium for music data, and download it to the hard disk device 23.

The floppy disk device 25 is provided to record and reproduce the music data, and the floppy disk device 25 writes the music data in the hard disk device 23 to the floppy disk or reads the music data from the floppy disk. And download it to the hard disk device 23. This floppy disk is used when exchanging music data between devices. The modem 26 is connected to another device or a host system by a communication line, and is used for transmitting / receiving data such as music data or performance data via the communication line.

The MIDI musical instrument 27 is an electronic musical instrument having a MIDI interface, for example, a MIDI keyboard, and a preset specific musical instrument that is extracted and separated from the performance information given by the music data and is output via the bus BL. Part, in this case the predetermined keyboard part,
While receiving the performance data (MIDI data) corresponding to, the actual performance data generated by the performance of the MIDI musical instrument 27 is supplied to the musical sound synthesizer 15 via the MIDI interface. As shown in FIG. 2, this MIDI musical instrument 27 is provided with a performance guide lamp 27b made of a light emitting diode or the like corresponding to each keyboard of a keyboard 27a for performance operation. The performance guide display is performed by successively lighting the performance guide lamps in accordance with the performance data corresponding to the keyboard that is extracted and separated from the performance information given by the data and is output via the bus BL.

When the performer operates the keyboard 27a in response to the performance guide display, the actual performance data corresponding to the performance content is given to the musical sound synthesizer 15 as MIDI data. In this case, the MIDI musical instrument 27 may give only the actual performance data by the performer to the musical sound synthesizer 15, and both the actual performance data and the original performance data given via the bus can be used as the musical sound. Synthesizer 15
May be given to. This is easily selected by connecting only the output terminal of the thru = through terminal and the output terminal normally provided in the MIDI musical instrument to the musical tone synthesizer 15 or both of them. can do. That is, the through terminal is a terminal for outputting the input MIDI data as it is, and the output terminal is a terminal for outputting the MIDI data of the actual performance output.

In the karaoke apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the CD-RO is previously stored.
While the music data is downloaded from the CD-ROM to the hard disk device 23 by the M playback device 24,
The required optical disk is set in the LD reproducing device 20. The song data downloaded to the hard disk device 23 can be given from a floppy disk by the floppy disk device 25 or from a communication line by the modem 26. When the karaoke apparatus of FIG. 1 is turned on, the operation program written in the ROM 12 is loaded into the RAM 13 and the operation is started. The CPU 1 is operated by operating the operation panel 14.
1 operates according to the operation program of the RAM 13 to execute various functions. The download to the hard disk device 23 described above is also executed under the control of the CPU 11 by operating the operation panel 14 while the power is on.

When a music piece to be played is specified by operating the operation panel 14, the music piece data of the specified music piece is read from the hard disk device 23 and loaded into the RAM 13.
The karaoke performance is started in accordance with this song data. When performing karaoke, musical tone information is sequentially generated from the musical tone synthesizer 15 according to the musical performance information contained in the musical composition data, reproduced from the speaker 18 via the mixer 17, and the lyrics contained in the musical composition data are also included. In accordance with the information and the bar line information, the image creating apparatus 19 generates, for example, character image information of lyrics in units of bars in accordance with the progress of the music,
It is displayed on the display device 22 via the image synthesizing device 21.

At this time, according to the coloring information in the music data, the character image information of the lyrics is sequentially colored in another color through the image creating device 19 in accordance with the progress of the singing, so that the singer can easily sing the place to sing. You will be instructed to understand.
Further, according to the drawing information included in the music data, image information according to the progress of the music is generated from the image creating device 19 and is superimposed on the character image information of the lyrics, and the display device via the image synthesizing device 21. 22 is displayed. In the case of a karaoke song using an optical disc, a predetermined optical disc is selected at the start of the performance, the designated portion of the optical disc is reproduced according to the drawing information in the song data, and is displayed on the display device 22 via the image synthesizing device 21. Is displayed.

Further, the performance data of a predetermined keyboard part of the performance information in the music data is separated and extracted from the performance information to form a MIDI musical instrument 27 composed of a MIDI keyboard.
Given to. The MIDI musical instrument 27 displays a performance guide for playing the keyboard part based on the given performance data. Therefore, the singer may sing into the microphone 16 while watching the display of the display device 22, and the player of the MIDI musical instrument 27 may play the MIDI musical instrument 27 according to the performance guide display.

In this case, the main part of the music data of each music that is transferred from the hard disk device 23 to the RAM 13 in accordance with the music selection, is sequentially read, and is used for performance is constructed as follows. As shown in FIG. 3, a plurality of tracks TK1, TK2, TK3 ... Are provided in the music data. Performance information is stored in the first track TK1. This performance information is data for driving the musical tone synthesizer 15 to generate a musical tone signal of accompaniment music. Second
In the track TK2 of the drawing, the drawing information and the LD reproducing device 20 for causing the image generating device 19 to generate the image signal.
At least one of drawing information for instructing video data to be read from the optical disc is stored in. Third
The track TK3 stores bar line information indicating the bar line number (bar line No) of the accompaniment music. The fourth track TK4 stores the lyrics information for causing the image creating device 19 to generate the character image information of the lyrics and to form the display image signal.

If the drawing information includes drawing information for causing the image creating device 19 to generate an image signal, the display image signal created by the image creating device 19 includes an image based on the drawing information. Both the signal and the character image information based on the lyrics information are included. The fifth track TK5 has a display 22 according to the lyrics information.
Coloring information for coloring the character image information of the lyrics displayed in is stored. The display image signal including at least the character image information of the lyrics generated by the image creating device 19 and the video signal read by the LD reproducing device 20 are combined into a combined video signal by the image combining device 21 and displayed on the display 22. .

Each of these pieces of information is set for each event such as one sound and one image, and time information Δt indicating the elapsed time between the adjacent events is inserted between the adjacent events. For example, taking performance information as an example, a predetermined performance is performed by giving performance information that starts a certain sound with the first performance information and ends the next sound after Δt has elapsed. Figure 3
In the above, the performance information is shown as a series of information on the first track TK1, but more specifically, it is composed of performance data for each note of each musical instrument. Also, information such as the tone color of each musical instrument is appropriately included. In this case, the time information Δt is
It may be time information that changes from time to time, but as shown in FIG.
A time period of 2Δt may be expressed by inserting Δt twice in succession, with the basic unit being Δt set based on the minimum time unit of performance.

In this case, the performance data is MIDI, for example.
It is composed of data of a large number of parts such as a piano part, a keyboard part, a guitar part, a bass part and a drums part (often having a plurality of parts for the same musical instrument). Therefore, as a MIDI instrument 27 with a guide display,
Not limited to the keyboard, various MIDI musical instruments such as a digital percussion (percussion instrument) using a drum pad, a guitar synthesizer, a wind synthesizer (a wind instrument synthesizer), etc. can be used. As described above, while the singer is singing, the musical instrument performance can be enjoyed with the guide display, and many people can enjoy karaoke at once as compared with the conventional karaoke apparatus. It should be noted that the microphone 16 and the mixer 17 may be excluded so that only a specific musical instrument performance with a so-called "minus one" performance as a background can be enjoyed.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The performance data of a predetermined performance instrument is extracted from the performance information of the music, and the player is instructed to the performance location of the electronic musical instrument that generates the real performance data by the performance operation corresponding to the predetermined performance instrument according to the performance data. Guide display is performed as much as possible, and musical tone information is generated using the actual performance data and the performance data of the performance information so that not only singing but also musical instrument performance can be enjoyed, and many people can enjoy it. It is possible to provide a karaoke device that enables it.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an M with a performance guide display used in the embodiment of FIG.
It is a partial top view which shows an example of an IDI musical instrument typically.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of performance data of music data in the embodiment of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... CPU (Central Processing Unit), 12 ... ROM (Read Only Memory), 13 ... RAM (Read / Write Memory),
14 ... Operation panel, 15 ... Tone synthesizer, 16 ... Microphone, 17 ... Mixer, 18 ... Speaker, 19 ... Computer graphics device (image creating device), 20 ... Optical disc reproducing device (LD reproducing device), 21 ... Image combining apparatus,
22 ... Display device (CRT), 23 ... Hard disk device (HDD), 24 ... CD-ROM playback device (C
D-ROM, 25 ... Floppy disk device (FD
D), 26 ... modem, 27 ... MIDI musical instrument.

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A song data storage unit for storing song data including lyrics information and drawing information for singing a karaoke song and musical tone synthesis type performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts for karaoke performance, and a plurality of song data included in the song data. Musical sound synthesizing means for generating a musical sound signal based on the musical performance data of the musical instrument part and the actual musical performance data of a specific musical instrument input from the outside, and the audio signal input from the microphone is mixed with the musical tone signal and output. Output means, a background display means for displaying a background image based on the drawing information included in the song data, a lyrics display means for displaying a lyrics image overlaid on the background image based on the lyrics information included in the song data, and a song data included, the performance data output means for outputting performance data of a preset specific instrument part to the outside, said Starring output from the performance data output means The performance guide display is performed based on the performance data, and external performance operation means for outputting the actual performance data to the musical sound synthesizing means in accordance with a performance operation is provided, wherein the musical sound synthesizing means is adapted to the musical piece data of the specific musical instrument part. A karaoke device which does not generate a musical tone signal based on included performance data. 2. A song data storage means for storing song data including lyrics information and drawing information for singing a karaoke song and musical tone synthesis type performance data of a plurality of musical instrument parts for karaoke performance, and a plurality of song data included in the song data. Musical sound synthesizing means for generating a musical sound signal based on the musical performance data of the musical instrument part and the actual musical performance data of a specific musical instrument input from the outside, and the audio signal input from the microphone is mixed with the musical tone signal and output. Output means, a background display means for displaying a background image based on the drawing information included in the song data, a lyrics display means for displaying a lyrics image overlaid on the background image based on the lyrics information included in the song data, and a song data included, the performance data output means for outputting performance data of a preset specific instrument part to the outside, said Starring output from the performance data output means Performs performance guide display based on the response rate data, the performance data
When, an external performance operation means for outputting a slave intends the real performance data to the performance operation to the musical tone synthesizing means, the tone synthesis section, along with the tone signal based on the actual performance data of the particular instrument part, the A karaoke apparatus for generating a musical tone signal based on performance data included in the music data of a specific musical instrument part. 3. The karaoke apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the external performance operation means displays performance timing and pitch as a performance guide.