JP4687480B2 - Data allocation setting device and program for electronic musical instrument - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to data allocation for setting various types of music-related data selected / set in accordance with the operation of the setting operator to one or more setting operators of the electronic musical instrument from the outside of the electronic musical instrument. The present invention relates to a setting device and a program.

For low-priced electronic musical instruments, such as beginners, children, or toy electronic musical instruments, the number of setting controls placed on the panel to reduce costs and simplify operations by the performers themselves It is less than general popular electronic musical instruments. On the other hand, for high-priced electronic musical instruments and specialized electronic musical instruments, each of a large number of setting operators arranged at appropriate positions on the panel is selected and set according to the operation of each operator. Various built-in tone data (also called voice data), accompaniment pattern data (or style data), and various music-related data such as song data can be assigned to desired setting operators according to the player's preference. However, the low-priced electronic musical instrument does not have such a data allocation setting function. In addition, while storing a plurality of initial settings in the ROM in the electronic musical instrument in advance, a memory card that records unique setting information (for example, setting information related to the main tone color, demo music, etc.) that is different for each destination. If the memory card bundled with the electronic musical instrument is shipped at the time of factory shipment and the electronic musical instrument is turned on, the initial setting according to the destination can be automatically performed according to the setting information. Like that. Related to this is, for example, an electronic music device described in Patent Document 1 shown below. As described above, in the low-priced electronic musical instrument, the functions of the musical instrument main body that can be operated by the performer are limited so that the player himself / herself does not need to operate the electronic musical instrument main body as much as possible.
JP 2004-177638 A

  By the way, in the low-priced electronic musical instrument as described above, the music-related data peculiar to each destination after the factory shipment is changed / added, and the changed / added music-related data is selected / set according to the operation. There are cases where it is desired to change the assignment to any of the setting operators. Or, if a music classroom is used to teach musical instrument performance using many low-priced electronic musical instruments, etc., the instructor will use it when performing the subject song according to the progress of the curriculum, etc. For example, there is a case where a tone color, an accompaniment style, or a song as a model is desired to be assigned in advance to a common setting operator for all electronic musical instruments. However, in the conventional electronic musical instrument in which the initial setting is performed according to the memory card included as described above, it is naturally not possible to switch to the initial setting using music-related data that is not recorded in the ROM in the electronic musical instrument in advance. In addition, when changing or adding music-related data to an electronic musical instrument, it was necessary to wait for a new memory card to be supplied from the manufacturer. Furthermore, when assigning the same music-related data to a common controller for all of a large number of electronic musical instruments, prepare as many memory cards as the number of electronic musical instruments installed and install them in each electronic musical instrument. It must be troublesome. Therefore, there has been a demand for an apparatus that can easily assign music-related data to a desired setting operator in addition to changing / adding music-related data without operating the electronic musical instrument main body.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described points. The electronic musical instrument is set to change or add music-related data to the electronic musical instrument or to select / set desired music-related data in accordance with the operation. An object of the present invention is to provide a data allocation setting device that can be easily assigned to an operator from the outside of the electronic musical instrument.

A data allocation setting device according to the present invention includes a read-only music-related data storage unit storing at least music-related data that is one of timbre data, accompaniment pattern data, and song data, and stored music-related data. is any music-related data can be assigned, and connection means for connecting the electronic musical instrument having a set operator you select the allocated music-related data, the stored music associated with the connected electronic musical instrument Based on the information related to the acquired music related data, the acquisition means for acquiring information related to the data, one music related data is selected from the music related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument, and the connected the set operator of the electronic musical instrument, the data split to assign configured to assign music related data said selected Comprising setting means, wherein to the connected electronic musical instrument, the allocation change instruction means for instructing to assign a music-related data to the setting operator in accordance with the assignment setting Te.

According to the present invention, read-only music-related data storage means storing music-related data that is at least one of timbre data, accompaniment pattern data, and song data, and arbitrary music-related data among the stored music-related data acquisition There is assignable, if it is connected to an electronic musical instrument having a set operator you select the allocated music-related data, information about the stored music-related data from the connected electronic musical instrument To do. Then, based on the information related to the acquired music-related data, one music-related data is selected from the music-related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument, and the setting operator of the connected electronic musical instrument is selected. On the other hand, assignment setting is performed so as to assign the selected music-related data, and the connected electronic musical instrument is instructed to assign music-related data to the setting operator according to the assignment setting. In this way, it is already stored in the read-only music related data storage means connected electronic musical instrument, at least the tone color data, accompaniment pattern data, the music-related data is either the song data, the electronic musical instrument The assignment state to the setting operation element can be changed individually. By doing so, the user without operating the electronic musical instrument, just by connecting the electronic musical instrument, only the own machine music-related data that is preset in the electronic musical instrument as a function assigned to pairs to set operator with its Even for an electronic musical instrument that cannot be selectively assigned to any one of the setting operators, a preset music-related data is selectively assigned to the desired setting operator from the outside of the electronic musical instrument ( assignment state recombination ). It can be done easily.

  The present invention can be constructed and implemented not only as a device invention but also as a method invention. Further, the present invention can be implemented in the form of a program of a processor such as a computer or a DSP, or can be implemented in the form of a storage medium storing such a program.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily assign various music-related data to the setting operator of the electronic musical instrument from outside the electronic musical instrument without operating the electronic musical instrument main body.

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

  FIG. 1 is an external view showing an embodiment of a data allocation setting device PC according to the present invention. The data allocation setting apparatus PC according to the present invention is constituted by an independent computer including a CPU, ROM, RAM, communication interface, etc. as will be described in detail later (see FIG. 2 described later), and is composed of MIDI, USB, RS- By being connected to the electronic musical instrument EM (see FIG. 3 to be described later) via a communication cable C such as 232C, IEEEE1394, 10BaseT, etc., the data allocation setting device PC and the connected electronic musical instrument EM Various information can be transmitted or received unilaterally from the data allocation setting device PC to the electronic musical instrument EM. As various information transmitted from the data allocation setting device PC shown in this embodiment to the electronic musical instrument EM, for example, music related data peculiar to each destination to be changed / added to the electronic musical instrument EM after factory shipment is stored in the nonvolatile memory of the electronic musical instrument EM. Depending on the progress of the training curriculum by the instructor in the music classroom, etc., the performer can play the electronic musical instrument EM according to the “flash rewrite message information (including rewrite command and music-related data to be rewritten)” Teachers can select and set music-related data such as timbre data, accompaniment pattern data, and song data to be used when performing assignments using performance operators such as keyboard KB. “Assignment change message information (assignment change command) for assigning music related data to the setting operator BT Change and a content) "and the like (see FIG. 6 described later).

  The electronic musical instrument EM connected to the data allocation setting device PC has a keyboard KB for generating a musical sound based on the performance operation of the performer, and setting operators BT such as buttons for selecting and setting data used in the musical performance. have. For the setting controls BT placed at appropriate positions on the panel, any built-in timbre (Voice) data, accompaniment pattern (Pattern) data, song (Song) data selected and set according to the operation Various music-related data such as the above are assigned, and when a performer operates an arbitrary setting operation element BT, a performance using the music-related data assigned to the setting operation element BT can be performed. It can be done.

Note that the music-related data that can be assigned to the setting operation element BT of the electronic musical instrument EM is only the music-related data already recorded in the ROM or the nonvolatile memory of the electronic musical instrument EM. The music related data recorded in the ROM or the external storage device cannot be assigned as it is. Therefore, when music-related data recorded in the data allocation setting device PC is to be allocated to the setting operator BT, it is necessary to record the music-related data itself in the electronic musical instrument EM.
Note that the setting operator BT that can change the assignment of music-related data from the data assignment setting device PC may be only a part of the dedicated operators. For example, only the setting operation element BT (for example, referred to as an area-dedicated button) disposed on the upper panel of the panel within the range indicated by the dotted line in FIG. The assignment may be changeable.
Note that the connection mode between the data allocation setting device PC and the electronic musical instrument EM is not limited to the communication cable C as described above, but may be wired or wireless using a LAN (local area network), the Internet, a telephone line, or the like. It may be based on an existing communication network. When an existing communication network is used, it may be convenient because the same assignment can be made for a large number of electronic musical instruments EM at a time from a remote location.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the hardware configuration showing an embodiment of the overall configuration of the data allocation setting apparatus PC according to the present invention. The data allocation setting apparatus shown in the present embodiment is controlled by a microcomputer comprising a microprocessor unit (CPU) 1, a read only memory (ROM) 2, and a random access memory (RAM) 3, for example, a control device such as a personal computer. It is. The CPU 1 controls the operation of the entire data allocation setting device. With respect to the CPU 1, the ROM 2, RAM 3, detection circuits 4 and 5, display circuit 6, external storage device 7, MIDI interface (I / F) 8, USB interface (I / F) 9 are connected to the CPU 1 via a data and address bus 1D. And a communication interface (I / F) 10 are connected to each other. Further, the CPU 1 is connected to a timer 1A for measuring the interrupt time and various times in the timer interrupt process (interrupt process). For example, the timer 1A generates a clock pulse, and gives the generated clock pulse to the CPU 1 as a processing timing command or to the CPU 1 as an interrupt command. The CPU 1 executes various processes according to these instructions.

  The ROM 2 stores various programs executed by the CPU 1 and various data. The RAM 3 is used as a working memory that temporarily stores various data generated when the CPU 1 executes a predetermined program, or as a memory that stores a currently executed program and related data. A predetermined address area of the RAM 3 is assigned to each function and used as a register, flag, table, memory, or the like. The operation element 4A is a pointing device such as a mouse for operating a predetermined pointer displayed on the display 6A, and the operation element (switch, etc.) 5A is a numeric keypad for inputting numeric data and a keyboard for inputting character data. Etc. The detection circuits 4 and 5 detect the operation states of the operation elements 4A and 5A, respectively, and output switch information corresponding to the operation states to the CPU 1 via the data and address bus 1D.

  The display circuit 6 assigns an “electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen” (see FIG. 4 described later) and “electronic musical instrument buttons and data” to a display 6A composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) or a CRT. Various screens such as “screen” (see FIG. 5 described later) or the control state of the CPU 1 are displayed. Musicians such as musical instrument stores and music school instructors use the screen displayed on the display 6A to play timbre data, accompaniment pattern data, song data, and the like used when playing the connected electronic musical instrument EM. Assigning music-related data to the setting operation element BT of the electronic musical instrument EM and changing / adding music-related data recorded in the electronic musical instrument EM easily so that related data can be selected and set with a simple operation Can do.

  The external storage device 7 stores music related data such as timbre data, accompaniment pattern data, song data, or data related to control such as various control programs executed by the CPU 1. When no control program is stored in the ROM 2 described above, the control program is stored in the external storage device 7 (for example, a hard disk) and read into the RAM 3 to store the control program in the ROM 2. The CPU 1 can be operated in the same manner as in the case. In this way, control programs can be easily added and upgraded. The external storage device 7 is not limited to a hard disk (HD), but a flexible disk (FD), a compact disk (CD-ROM / CD-RAM), a magneto-optical disk (MO), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), etc. Any storage device may be used as long as the storage device uses various external storage media. Alternatively, it may be a semiconductor memory.

  The MIDI interface (I / F) 8 is an interface for connecting to the electronic musical instrument EM, and inputs various information from the externally connected electronic musical instrument EM to the data allocation setting device PC, or the data allocation setting device PC. Outputs various information to the electronic musical instrument EM. The MIDI interface (I / F) 8 can be connected not only to the electronic musical instrument EM but also to other MIDI devices that generate MIDI data in response to user operations. Note that the MIDI interface 8 is not limited to a dedicated MIDI interface, and the MIDI interface 8 may be configured using a general-purpose interface such as RS-232C, IEEE1394 (i-triple 1394). In this case, data other than MIDI data may be transmitted and received simultaneously. When the general-purpose interface as described above is used as the MIDI interface 8, the electronic musical instrument EM may be able to transmit and receive data other than MIDI data. Of course, the data format of the data that can be transmitted and received is not limited to MIDI, and may be other formats. In this case, the MIDI interface 8 and the electronic musical instrument EM are configured accordingly. Further, as shown in the figure, a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface (I / F) 9 may be provided separately from the MIDI interface 8.

  The communication interface (I / F) 10 is connected to a wired or wireless communication network X such as a LAN, the Internet, or a telephone line, and is connected to the server computer 10A via the communication network X. This is an interface for transmitting and receiving various types of information to and from the server computer 10A. When the control program and various data are not stored in the ROM 2 or the external storage device 7 (for example, hard disk), the control program and various data can be downloaded from the server computer 10A. Such a communication interface 10 may be both wired and wireless and may include both.

  FIG. 3 is a hardware configuration block diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the electronic musical instrument EM to be connected to the data allocation setting device PC according to the present invention. However, since the electronic musical instrument EM shown in this embodiment can be described as using a hardware configuration similar to that of the data allocation setting apparatus PC described above, FIG. These different components are mainly described below.

  The performance operator KB is, for example, a keyboard provided with a plurality of keys for selecting the pitch of a musical tone, and has a key switch corresponding to each key, and this performance operator KB. (Keyboard etc.) can be used not only for manual (hand-playing) performance by the user, but also as input means for performing various settings in the electronic musical instrument. The detection circuit 11 generates a detection output by detecting the pressing and release of each key of the performance operator KB. The setting operator (button or the like) BT is a button or the like that allows a musician to select and set music-related data used when the electronic musical instrument EM is played. Of course, in addition to these buttons, various operators such as a numeric keypad for inputting numeric data and a keyboard for inputting character data used for selecting, setting and controlling pitches, timbres, effects and the like may be included. The detection circuit 12 detects the operation state of the setting operator BT and outputs switch information corresponding to the operation state to the CPU 1 via the data and address bus 1D.

  The tone generator circuit 13 can simultaneously generate musical sound signals in a plurality of channels, and is generated in response to the operation of the performance operator KB given via the data and address bus 1D, or for reproducing music data. Various performance information generated based on the performance information is input, and a musical sound signal is generated based on the performance information. The musical sound signal generated from the sound source circuit 13 is given an effect via the effect circuit 14 and is generated from the sound system 15 including an amplifier and a speaker. Any conventional configuration may be used for the configuration of the sound source circuit 13, the effect circuit 14, and the sound system 15. For example, the tone generator circuit 13 may employ any of various tone synthesis methods such as FM, PCM, physical model, formant synthesis, etc., or may be configured by dedicated hardware, or by software processing by the CPU 1. May be. The electronic musical instrument EM is connected to the above-described data allocation setting device PC via the MIDI interface 8 or the USB interface 9 and the electronic musical instrument EM sent from the connected data allocation setting device PC. Button assignment information indicating the assignment of music-related data to the setting operation element BT, music-related data, and the like are received, and these are temporarily stored in the RAM 3 and the nonvolatile memory 16.

  In the electronic musical instrument EM described above, the performance operator 11 is not limited to a keyboard instrument, and may be any type of instrument such as a stringed instrument, a wind instrument, or a percussion instrument. Further, the electronic musical instrument EM is not limited to one in which the performance operator KB, the display 6A, the tone generator circuit 13 and the like are built in one apparatus main body, but each is configured separately and using communication means such as a MIDI interface or various networks. Needless to say, each device may be configured to be connected.

  In the data allocation setting apparatus PC described above, the user operates the pointing device 4A, the keyboard 5A, etc. as appropriate while referring to various screens displayed on the display 6A, so that the electronic musical instrument EM is displayed on the displayed screen. It is possible to easily change / add music-related data that can be used in the above, and assign music-related data to the setting operation element BT of the electronic musical instrument EM. Accordingly, a screen for changing / adding music-related data that can be used in the electronic musical instrument EM will be described with reference to FIG. 4 regarding a screen for setting assignment of music-related data to the setting operation element BT of the electronic musical instrument EM. Each will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of display contents of an “electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen” for changing / adding music-related data to the electronic musical instrument EM. As shown in FIG. 4, in the “electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen”, an electronic musical instrument connected to the data allocation setting device PC is displayed in the display area FMa on the upper part of the main screen FM displayed in the window. EM model name, model name, etc. are displayed (model name “KBD-10” is displayed here). The display area FMb of the main screen FM displays a predetermined storage area divided for each data type for recording music related data in the nonvolatile memory 16 of the electronic musical instrument EM. Here, six storage areas (Voice Flash Area No. 1 to No. 6) are stored as timbre data storage areas, and two storage areas (Pattern Flash Area No. 1) are stored as accompaniment pattern data. And NO.2) are displayed. In the display area FMc of the main screen FM, the data names of the music-related data currently recorded in the respective storage areas in the nonvolatile memory 16 displayed in the display area FMb are displayed. For example, the "Voice Flash Area No.1" area contains "Chinese Flute" timbre data, the "Voice Flash Area No.2" area contains "ChineseHarp" timbre data, and the "Voice Flash Area" In the “No. 3” area, tone data of “Chinese Fiddle” is recorded. For a storage area in which no music related data is recorded (for example, “Voice Flash Area No. 4” area), “(No Data)” indicating that no music related data is recorded is displayed. The display of the display areas FMb and FMc can be changed by operating the scroll bar SC displayed at the right end of the main screen FM (however, more than the number that can be displayed at one time on the main screen FM). If it is).

  In the display area FMc, in addition to displaying the data name of the music-related data currently recorded in each storage area as described above, the display area FMc is an arrow icon (in this case, a triangular display body painted black). Display). When the pointer P is overlaid on the arrow icon and clicked, the clicked display area is highlighted and the sub screen FS is newly displayed. The sub screen FS displays a list of music-related data recorded in the ROM 2 or the external storage device 7 in the data allocation setting device PC. As shown in the figure, when the timbre data storage area “Voice Flash Area No. 4” is clicked on the main screen FM, a list of timbre data is displayed as the sub-screen FS. In the display area FSa of the sub-screen FS, a predetermined storage area is displayed that is divided for each data type in which music-related data in the ROM 2 or the external storage device 7 of the data allocation setting device PC is recorded. Here, storage areas (Voice No. 1 to No. 6) in which timbre data have been stored are displayed. In the display area FSb of the sub-screen FS, the data names of music-related data currently recorded in the respective storage areas in the ROM 2, the external storage device 7 and the like displayed in the display area FSa are displayed. When the operator clicks the data name of the music-related data recorded in any storage area displayed on the sub-screen FS with the pointer P, the music-related data to be changed / added to the electronic musical instrument EM is displayed. You can specify. That is, the designated music-related data is recorded in the nonvolatile memory 16 of the electronic musical instrument EM and can be used in the electronic musical instrument EM. Note that the display of the sub screen FS can also be changed by operating the scroll bar SC at the right end (provided that the number is more than the number that can be displayed at one time on the sub screen FS).

  FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a “screen for assigning buttons and data of an electronic musical instrument” for setting assignment of music-related data to a setting operator BT (button or the like) of the electronic musical instrument EM. FIG. 5A shows a display example when an instruction is given to assign arbitrary data from among a large number of timbre data (ROM Voice) recorded in the ROM 2 of the electronic musical instrument EM, and FIG. Each of the display examples when an instruction is given to assign arbitrary data from among a large number of timbre data (Flash Voice) recorded in the non-volatile memory 16 of the EM. As can be understood from these drawings, when “ROM Voice” is selected on the first sub-screen WS1 shown in FIG. 5A, and “Flash” is displayed on the first sub-screen WS1 shown in FIG. When “Voice” is selected, whether the content displayed on the second sub-screen WS2 is data stored in the ROM 2 of the electronic musical instrument EM or data stored in the nonvolatile memory 16 Only the difference. Therefore, in the following, the case where “ROM Voice” is selected on the first sub-screen WS1 shown in FIG. 5A will be described. When “Flash Voice” is selected, “ROM” is changed to “Flash (Flash)”. ) ”(Or non-volatile memory), and the description thereof is omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 5A, the main screen WM of this “screen for allocating buttons and data of an electronic musical instrument” has the same configuration as the main screen FM of the “electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen” described above. Display is made. In the display area WMa, the model name and model name of the electronic musical instrument EM connected to the data allocation setting device PC are displayed (“KBD-10”). Regarding the display areas WMb and WMc, in the “electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen”, the music related data stored in the nonvolatile memory 16 of the electronic musical instrument EM was displayed. In the “assignment screen”, a display relating to the current assignment state of the music-related data to the setting operator BT of the electronic musical instrument EM is performed. That is, the setting operation element BT to which data of the electronic musical instrument EM can be assigned is displayed in the display area WMb, and the data name of the music related data assigned to each setting operation element BT is displayed in the display area WMc. Here, buttons for selecting and setting tone data as shown in FIG. 1 (Voice Button No. 1 to No. 3), buttons for selecting and setting accompaniment pattern data (Pattern Button No. 1 and NO. 2) For each of the buttons (Song Button NO.1 and NO.2) for selecting and setting song data, the data names of the music-related data currently assigned are displayed.

  When the pointer P is clicked with an arrow icon (indicated here by a black-colored triangular display body) having a predetermined display mode in the display area WMc and clicked, the clicked display area is highlighted and the first The sub-screen WS1 is newly displayed. The first sub-screen WS1 displays a music-related data storage device (ROM 2 or nonvolatile memory 16) in the electronic musical instrument EM. When the pointer P is clicked with the arrow icon having a predetermined display mode on the sub-screen WS1 being clicked, the clicked display area is highlighted and the second sub-screen WS2 is newly displayed. The second sub-screen WS2 displays a list of music-related data recorded in the ROM 2 and the nonvolatile memory 16 in the electronic musical instrument EM. The display area WS2a of the sub-screen WS2 displays a predetermined storage area divided for each data type in which music-related data in the ROM 2 of the electronic musical instrument EM is recorded. Here, a storage area (ROM Voice No. 1 to No. 6) in which timbre data is already stored is displayed. In the display area WS2b of the sub-screen WS2, the data names of the music related data currently recorded in the respective storage areas in the ROM 2 displayed in the display area WS2a are displayed. When the data name of the music related data displayed on the sub-screen WS2 is clicked with the pointer P by the operator, the music related data to be assigned to the setting operator BT of the electronic musical instrument EM can be designated. Note that the display of the sub-screen WS2 can also be changed by operating the scroll bar SC at the right end (provided that the number is larger than the number that can be displayed at one time on the sub-screen WS2).

  Next, a series of processing for changing / adding music-related data to the electronic musical instrument EM from the data allocating apparatus PC using the above-mentioned screens, assigning music-related data to the setting operator BT of the electronic musical instrument EM, and the like. Will be described. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of “data allocation setting process” executed on the data allocation setting apparatus PC side. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of “electronic musical instrument processing” executed on the electronic musical instrument EM side. When each of these processes is actually performed, each process is performed in parallel while transmitting and receiving predetermined information between the data allocation setting device PC and the electronic musical instrument EM. In order to facilitate the processing, the processing executed in each device will be described separately with reference to the drawings.

  First, the “data allocation setting process” executed by the data allocation setting apparatus PC will be described with reference to FIG. In step S1, an “initialization process” is executed. This initialization process will be described later (see FIG. 8 or FIG. 9 described later). In step S2, an “electronic musical instrument flash data allocation screen” (see FIG. 4) is displayed on the display 6A. In step S3, a “screen for assigning buttons and data of an electronic musical instrument” (see FIG. 5) is displayed on the display 6A. That is, both the screens are simultaneously displayed on the display 6A of the data allocation setting device PC. In step S4, it is determined whether or not a flash data change operation has been performed using the “electronic musical instrument flash data allocation screen”. That is, it is determined whether or not an operation for changing / adding music related data (referred to as flash data) to be written in a predetermined storage area of the nonvolatile memory 16 has been performed. If it is determined that the flash data change operation has been performed (YES in step S4), a “Flash rewrite message” is sent to the connected electronic musical instrument EM (step S5). Further, the information related to music related data stored in the electronic musical instrument EM (hereinafter referred to as content information) stored in the RAM 3 of the data allocation setting device PC is updated (step S6). This content information is information such as the type and data name of music-related data, for example. Then, the display of the “electronic musical instrument flash data allocation screen” is updated in accordance with the flash data changing operation (step S7).

  In step S8, it is determined whether or not a button / data assignment change operation has been performed using a "screen for assigning buttons and data of an electronic musical instrument" (see FIG. 5). That is, it is determined whether or not music-related data assignment setting has been performed for the setting operation element BT of the electronic musical instrument EM. If it is determined that a button / data assignment change operation has been performed (YES in step S8), an “assignment change message” is sent to the connected electronic musical instrument EM (step S9). Then, the display of “screen for assigning buttons and data of electronic musical instrument” is updated in accordance with the button and data assignment changing operation (step S10), and the electronic information stored in the RAM 3 of the data assignment setting device PC is updated. The “button assignment information” of the musical instrument is updated (step S11). This electronic musical instrument button assignment information is information indicating which music-related data is assigned to each setting operator BT of the electronic musical instrument EM. In step S12, it is determined whether or not the screen is closed. If it is determined that it has been closed (YES in step S12), the process ends. If it is determined that it is not closed (NO in step S12), the process returns to step S4 and the processes in steps S4 to S12 are repeated.

  Here, the “initialization process” (see step S1 in FIG. 6) executed in the “data allocation setting process” described above will be described with reference to FIG. 8 or FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the “initialization process”. In the “initialization process” shown in FIG. 8, first, a “model information request message” is sent to the connected electronic musical instrument EM (step S41), and “model information” sent from the electronic musical instrument EM in response to the message is sent. Is received (step S42). This model information is, for example, the manufacturer name, model name, model name, etc. of the connected electronic musical instrument EM. In step S43, an initial setting of “content information” (see step S6 in FIG. 6) corresponding to the model information is created on the RAM 3 of the data allocation setting device PC. In step S44, a “Flash rewrite message” is sent to the electronic musical instrument EM instructing the initial setting of the nonvolatile memory 16 (Flash) of the electronic musical instrument EM. In step S45, an initial setting of “electronic instrument button assignment information” corresponding to the model information is created on the RAM 3 of the data assignment setting device PC. In step S46, an “assignment change message” is sent to the electronic musical instrument EM instructing to change / add music-related data to be assigned to each setting operator BT of the electronic musical instrument EM. It should be noted that, instead of the processing of the above steps S41 and S42, a large number of corresponding model lists of the electronic musical instrument EM are stored in the data allocation setting device PC, and the corresponding model list is displayed and connected to the “electronic musical instrument”. The “model information” may be appropriately selected by the user. In this way, in this initialization process, as preparation for performing the assignment setting, in order to set the assignment state of the electronic musical instrument EM to an initial state suitable for the model, the existing assignment state of the electronic musical instrument EM is initialized. Turn into.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing another example of the “initialization process”. In the “initialization process” shown in FIG. 9, first, an “allocation information request message” is sent to the electronic musical instrument EM (step S51). In step S52, “button allocation information” indicating the current allocation status transmitted from the electronic musical instrument EM in response to the “allocation information request message” is received and stored in the RAM 3 of the data allocation setting device PC. In step S53, a “content information request message” requesting “content information” stored in the ROM 2 and the nonvolatile memory 16 (Flash) of the electronic musical instrument EM is sent to the electronic musical instrument EM. In step S54, the “content information” stored in the ROM 2 nonvolatile memory 16 sent from the electronic musical instrument EM is received. In this way, in this initialization process, the existing allocation status is acquired from the electronic musical instrument EM as preparation for performing allocation setting.

  Next, “electronic musical instrument processing” executed on the electronic musical instrument EM side in parallel with the “data allocation setting processing” shown in FIG. 6 executed by the data allocation setting apparatus PC will be described with reference to FIG. In step S21, it is determined whether or not there is a “model information request message” (see step S41 in FIG. 8) from the data allocation setting device PC. If there is a “model information request message” (YES in step S21), “model information” is sent to the data allocation setting device PC (step S22). In step S23, it is determined whether or not there is an “allocation information request message” (see step S51 in FIG. 9) from the data allocation setting device PC. If there is an “allocation information request message” (YES in step S23), “button allocation information” is sent to the data allocation setting device PC (step S24). In step S25, it is determined whether or not there is a request for content information in the memory (ROM 2, nonvolatile memory 16), that is, a “content information request message” (see step S53 in FIG. 9) from the data allocation setting device PC. If there is a request for content information on the memory (YES in step S25), "content information" stored in the memory is sent to the data allocation setting device PC (step S26). In step S27, it is determined whether or not there is an “allocation change message” (see step S9 in FIG. 6) from the data allocation setting device PC. If there is an “allocation change message” (YES in step S27), the allocation is changed to allocation of music-related data to each button (setting operation element BT) according to the button and data allocation change operation, and the nonvolatile memory 16 (Step S28). In step S29, it is determined whether or not there is a “Flash rewrite message” (see step S5 in FIG. 6) from the data allocation setting device PC. If there is a “flash rewrite message” (YES in step S29), the music-related data included in the message is written in the designated storage area of the nonvolatile memory 16 (step S30). In step S31, it is determined whether there is a normal performance message such as a note-on event, a note-off event, or a control message other than the above. If there is a normal performance message (YES in step S31), normal performance processing is executed (step S32). In the performance process, the performance is executed in accordance with the tone color, pattern, and song assigned to the set operation element BT being operated.

  Note that each of the above-described processes is not limited to the form of computer software, but can be implemented in the form of a microprogram processed by a DSP (digital signal processor), and is not limited to the form of this type of program. You may implement in the form of a dedicated hardware device comprised including a discrete circuit, an integrated circuit, a large-scale integrated circuit, or a gate array.

It is an external view which shows the embodiment of the data allocation setting apparatus which concerns on this invention. 1 is a block diagram of a hardware configuration showing an embodiment of an overall configuration of a data allocation setting device according to the present invention. 1 is a block diagram of a hardware configuration showing an embodiment of an overall configuration of an electronic musical instrument to be connected to a data allocation setting device according to the present invention. It is the schematic which shows one Example of the display content of an electronic musical instrument flash (Flash) data allocation screen. It is the schematic which shows one Example of the screen which allocates the button and data of an electronic musical instrument. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of a data allocation setting process. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of an electronic musical instrument process. It is the flowchart which showed one Example of the initialization process. It is the flowchart which showed another Example of the initialization process.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... CPU, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4,5,11,12 ... Detection circuit, 4A ... Operator (pointing device etc.), 5A ... Operator (keyboard etc.), 6 ... Display circuit, 6A ... Display 7 ... external storage device, 8 ... MIDI interface, 9 ... USB interface, 10 ... communication interface, 10A ... server computer, 13 ... sound source circuit, 14 ... effect circuit, 15 ... sound system, 16 ... nonvolatile memory, KB ... performance Operator (keyboard, etc.), BT ... Setting operator (button, etc.), X ... Communication network, 1D ... Communication bus (data and address bus), PC ... Data allocation setting device, EM ... Electronic musical instrument, C ... Communication cable

Claims (4)

Arbitrary music-related data can be assigned from read-only music-related data storage means storing music-related data that is at least one of tone color data, accompaniment pattern data, and song data, and stored music-related data and connection means for connecting the electronic musical instrument having a set operator you select the allocated music-related data,
Obtaining means for obtaining information relating to music-related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument;
Based on the acquired information related to music-related data, one music-related data is selected from music-related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument, and the setting operation unit of the connected electronic musical instrument is selected . a data allocation setting means for assigning configured to assign music related data said selected
A data assignment setting device comprising assignment change instruction means for instructing the connected electronic musical instrument to assign music-related data to a setting operator according to the assignment setting. The connected electronic musical instrument has writable music related data storage means for storing the music related data,
Storage means for storing music-related data;
Data selecting means for selecting desired music related data from the stored music related data ;
By transmitting the music-related data before Symbol selected for prior SL connected electronic musical instrument, the music-related data stored in the writable music-related data storage means in the connected electronic musical instrument, Data update instruction means for rewriting the selected music-related data;
With
The acquisition unit acquires information about music-related data stored in the read-only music-related data storage unit and the writable music-related data storage unit of the connected electronic musical instrument. The data allocation setting device described in 1.   Instrument initialization for initializing music-related data stored in the rewritable music-related data storage means of the connected electronic musical instrument and music-related data assigned to the setting operator to an initial setting state of the electronic musical instrument Further comprising means,
  The data allocation setting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the initialized state. On the computer,
Arbitrary music-related data can be assigned from read-only music-related data storage means storing music-related data that is at least one of tone color data, accompaniment pattern data, and song data, and stored music-related data , the procedure for connecting the electronic musical instrument having a set operator you select the allocated music-related data,
Obtaining information related to music-related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument;
Based on the acquired information related to music-related data, one music-related data is selected from music-related data stored in the connected electronic musical instrument, and the setting operation unit of the connected electronic musical instrument is selected . , the procedure for allocating configured to assign music related data said selected
A program for causing the connected electronic musical instrument to execute a procedure for instructing a setting operator to allocate music-related data according to the allocation setting.

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