JPH1185149A - Memory medium for music and electronic music reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a memory medium for music which is capable of the copyright fares which occur and reducing a manufacturing cost and a device which is capable of reproducing the contents of this memory medium and is thereby capable of making a contribution to international goodwill and learning of languages via the music. SOLUTION: A musical piece MIDI file and a text data file consisting of at least >=2 kinds of the different languages of these musical pieces are previously stored in the memory medium 10. Both files of the memory medium 10 read out of a CD-ROM drive 1 are transferred to a RAM 22. The two languages of the text that a user is ought to utilize are selected by the display screen of the display device 4. When playing is started by a sound source unit 5 in accordance with the musical piece MIDI file, the text of the selected two languages is displayed on the display screen of the display device 4 in compliance with the playing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a music storage medium for storing music performance data and the like, and an electronic music reproduction apparatus such as a karaoke apparatus capable of reproducing the contents of the storage medium and playing a musical instrument.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a laser disk has been known as a storage medium used in a karaoke apparatus. This laser disk stores music performance data and image data corresponding to the music. The song contains lyrics data in two languages (generally Japanese and English).
When such a laser disk is played back by a karaoke apparatus, in addition to the automatic performance of the music performed by the performance data, an image is displayed on the display screen by the image data,
In addition, lyrics in two languages are displayed on the display screen based on the lyrics data. On the other hand, in recent years, in Japan, foreigners from many countries having different languages are increasing, and accordingly, foreigners as users of the karaoke apparatus also tend to increase. Also, among karaoke songs, there are many songs that are said to be cover songs and the same song is sung in many languages in many countries.

[0003]

Under such circumstances, a foreigner whose language is English or the like can enjoy karaoke by using a conventional laser disk, but a language other than Spanish, There is an inconvenience that foreigners who use Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Latin, etc., cannot enjoy karaoke using a conventional laser disk. For this reason, foreigners in each country can enjoy karaoke, and for example, for the same music, foreigners can know the lyrics in Japanese, and Japanese can know the lyrics in the foreign language, There has been a demand for a new music storage medium that can contribute to international goodwill and language learning through music, and a reproduction device that can reproduce the contents of this storage medium. On the other hand, in the case of the above cover songs, if the music is separately produced in the storage medium of each country's language, the music copyright fee for the music will be incurred by the number of the produced music, and the production cost will be higher There is also the disadvantage of becoming.

[0004] Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide a music storage medium capable of reducing the generated copyright fee and reducing the production cost. It is a second object of the present invention to provide an electronic music reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing the contents of the storage medium and thereby contributing to international goodwill and language learning through music.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a music storage medium stores music performance data and lyrics data of at least two or more different languages of the music in association with each other. Achieve one objective. According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the music storage medium of the first aspect, the format of the performance data is MIDI data.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic music reproducing apparatus, wherein acquisition means for acquiring the performance data and the lyrics data stored in the music storage medium, respectively, and the performance data acquired by the acquisition means. Performance means for performing a performance based on the above, first selection means for selecting at least one language of the lyrics to be displayed and used from the lyrics data acquired by the acquisition means, and selected by the first selection means. The second object is achieved by providing display means for displaying the lyrics of the selected language based on the lyrics data of the language in accordance with the performance timing of the performance means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic music reproducing apparatus according to the third aspect, two languages are selected by the first selection means, and each of the two languages selected by the display means. When the lyrics are displayed, a second selecting means for selecting one of the two lyrics being displayed is provided, and when one of the lyrics is selected by the second selecting means, the displaying means is selected. Switched to display only the selected lyrics.

[0008] According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic music reproducing apparatus according to the third or fourth aspect,
In the lyrics displayed by the display means, the part being played by the playing means is displayed in a different color. According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic music reproducing apparatus according to the fifth aspect, the acquisition unit transmits the music data from the music storage medium.
When DI data is obtained, the color change display of the lyrics performed by the display means is performed in synchronization with a timing clock constituting the MIDI data.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, an example of the music storage medium of the present invention will be described. As the music storage medium, a floppy disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, or the like is used. In this storage medium, a music file composed of performance data of a music and a lyrics file composed of lyrics data of at least two or more different foreign languages are stored in advance as music information in association with each other. The number of songs stored in the storage medium in advance may be one or two or more.

As shown in FIG. 1, music information stored in a storage medium includes a music MIDI file composed of performance data (MIDI data) of a music, and a lyrics data file composed of lyrics data of the music in different languages. The same file number is assigned to both files so that both files are managed as one file. The lyrics data file, as shown in FIG.
It is composed of a plurality of lyrics data such as Japanese, Chinese, English, Korean, and Latin. The lyrics data in each of these languages is provided with an extension in addition to the file number so that it can be managed.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the music storage medium, for one music, the performance data of the music and a plurality of lyrics data of the music are stored in association with each other. did. For this reason, the generated copyright fee becomes a copyright fee for one song and a copyright fee for a plurality of lyrics, and the production cost can be reduced.

Next, the configuration of an embodiment of an electronic music reproducing apparatus for reproducing the above-described music storage medium will be described with reference to FIG. This electronic music reproducing apparatus uses a CD-ROM 10 as a music storage medium,
-To reproduce the contents of the ROM 10. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2, this electronic music reproducing apparatus uses a CD-RO
M drive 1, computer 2, operation unit 3, display device 4, sound source unit 5, amplifier (amplifier) 6,
It comprises left and right speakers 7 and 8.

A CD-ROM drive 1 is a CD-ROM drive.
The music MIDI file and the lyrics data file stored in advance in the memory 10 are read out as described later. The computer 2 has a CPU as shown in FIG.
(Central processing unit) 21, RAM (random access
A memory) 22 and a ROM (read only memory) 23. The CPU 21 has a CD-RO
M drive 1, operation unit 3, display device 4, sound source unit 5
Are connected, and these units are controlled as described later. R
When the CPU 21 controls each unit, various data are temporarily stored in the AM 22 as described later. ROM
A program for controlling each unit by the CPU 21 as described later is stored in the memory 23 in advance.

The operation unit 3 is composed of a keyboard or a numeric keypad, and is used when the user makes various selections as described later. The operation unit 3 is provided with a selection button 31 to be used as described later. The display device 4 is composed of a CRT display device, a liquid crystal display device, or the like, and displays lyrics and the like on a display screen during performance of a music piece, as described later. The sound source unit 5 converts music performance data (MIDI signal) into a sound signal (audio signal), as described later. The amplifier 6 amplifies the audio signal output from the sound source unit 5, and drives the left and right speakers 7, 8 with the amplified audio signal.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the electronic music reproducing apparatus having such a configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. First, a CD-ROM that is a music storage medium
The ROM 10 is set in the CD-ROM drive 1.
Thereafter, when the user (user) turns on the power of the apparatus main body, the display screen of the display device 4 becomes a screen for selecting a song. When the user operates the operation unit 3 to select a song on the display screen, the song MI is selected for the selected song.
It is determined whether there is a lyrics data file related to the DI file in addition to the DI file (step 1). As a result of this determination, if it is determined that there is a lyrics data file (step 1; Y), the music MIDI file of the selected song and the lyrics data file are read from the CD-ROM 10 and stored in the RAM 22 in a predetermined manner. Transferred to the area.

Next, the display screen of the display device 4 is changed to a screen for selecting the language of the lyrics to be displayed and used by the user (step 2). On this display screen, the user operates the operation unit 3 to determine whether or not two languages have been selected as lyrics to be displayed and used (step 3). As a result of this determination, when it is determined that two languages are selected (step 3; Y), the performance is started by the performance data of the music MIDI file transferred to the RAM 22. This performance is performed by the MIDI read from the RAM 22.
The data is supplied to the sound source unit 5 and the sound source unit 5
Generates an audio signal based on the MIDI data,
The audio signal is amplified by the amplifier 6 and the speakers 7 and 8 are driven.

At the start of the performance, the lyrics data of the selected two languages is transferred to the display device 4 and the lyrics data is converted into a character font. Two-stage display of lyrics in two languages is started (step 4). FIG. 4A shows an example in which English and Japanese lyrics are displayed in two rows. The contents of the lyrics in the two languages are changed according to the performance, and the lyrics of the part being played are displayed in different colors. If the user does not press the selection button 31 arranged on the operation unit 3, the lyrics display in the two languages is continued until the performance ends (steps 5 and 6).

On the other hand, when the selection button 31 arranged on the operation unit 3 is pressed during the performance, the lyrics display in two languages is changed to the lyrics display in one of the languages according to the state of the press. Display control is performed such that the changed lyrics display content is returned to the original lyrics display in two languages (steps 6 to 10). That is, one of the selection buttons 31
When the second press is made (Step 6; Y), the lyrics in the lower part of FIG. 4A disappear, and only the lyrics in the upper part are displayed in the lower part as shown in FIG. 4B (Step 7). The color of the lyrics in English only changes. Thereafter, when the selection button 31 is pressed for the second time (step 8; Y), FIG.
The lyrics in the upper row disappear, and only the lyrics in the lower row are shown in FIG.
As shown in (C), one line is displayed at the bottom (step 9), and the color change display of the lyrics only in Japanese is made. Further, when the selection button 31 is pressed for the third time (step 10;
Y), the display returns to the bilingual lyrics display of FIG. 4A (step 4).

Since the lyrics displayed on the display screen of the display device 4 are displayed in different colors as described above, the color change display of the lyrics will be described below. The color change display of the lyrics is performed in synchronization with a timing clock included in MIDI data that is performance data. In other words, the color change of the lyrics is performed based on the time base in the MIDI standard. This timebase is MIDI
Although the creator can arbitrarily set the time, here, the case of the time base “48” will be described as an example. Time base "48"
In the case of, it is considered that one beat (a quarter note) is decomposed into 48 steps and managed. In other words, if it takes 2 seconds to sound one beat, one step is 2/48 = 1/24
(Seconds). Therefore, the speed at which this step proceeds is synchronized with the color change speed of the lyrics.

More specifically, in the case shown in FIG. 5A, the four characters "LOVE" change color in two seconds. That is, one character changes color in 12 steps = 0.5 seconds. In the case shown in FIG. 5B, the two characters "Ai" change color in two seconds. That is, one character changes color in 24 steps = 1 second.

As described above, the color change display is performed based on an arbitrarily set time base. However, the number of steps related to color change may be set smaller than the original number of steps. That is, in the case of the time base “48”, the number of steps for one beat (quarter note) should be 48, but this can be set to any arbitrary number of steps from 1 to 48. For example, in the case of FIG. 5A, if the step is set to “24”, the sound itself is sounding for 2 seconds, but the color change step is １ ／, so “LOV
The letter "E" will change color in one second. That is,
One character changes color in 6 steps = 0.25 seconds.

As described above, in the embodiment of the electronic music reproducing apparatus, after selecting a tune to be played, prior to the start of the performance, if two languages of the lyrics desired to display the selected tune are selected, The lyrics of the selected two languages are displayed according to the timing of the performance. Therefore, for example, when displaying Japanese and foreign language lyrics, foreigners can know the Japanese lyrics of the song, and Japanese can know the foreign words of the song. It can contribute to international goodwill through music and can also be used for language learning.

Further, in this embodiment, while displaying lyrics in two languages, the user may erase one of the lyrics and display only the other lyrics, or the lyrics in the original two languages may be displayed. Since the display can be returned, the display can be freely selected and the usability is good. Further, in this embodiment, the color change display of the lyrics of the part being played is performed in synchronization with the timing clock included in the performance data, so that the color change display can be easily realized.

In this embodiment, a CD-ROM
The contents of No. 11 are read to obtain performance data and lyrics data. However, instead of this, in the present invention, data similar to the contents of the CD-ROM 11 may be obtained through a telephone line. In this case, communication means for that is required. Further, in this embodiment, a case has been described in which two languages of lyrics to be displayed on the display screen of the display device 4 are selected. However, lyrics of only one language are selectively displayed, and another language is displayed during the display. The lyrics of the language may be selectively displayed.

[0025]

As described above, in the music storage medium of the present invention, the music performance data and the lyrics data of the music in at least two different languages are stored in association with each other. In addition, the generated copyright fee can be reduced, and thus the production cost can be reduced.

In the electronic music reproducing apparatus of the present invention, after selecting a tune to be played and selecting at least one language of lyrics of the selected tune prior to the start of performance, each lyric of the selected language becomes Displayed at the timing of performance. For this reason, for example, if the language of the lyrics is 2
When one is selected and the lyrics of the selected two languages are displayed, it is possible to contribute to international goodwill through music and to contribute to language learning.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a file configuration of music information stored in a music storage medium of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an embodiment of an electronic music playback device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the embodiment of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a color change display of lyrics according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 CD-ROM drive (CD-ROM device) 2 Computer 3 Operation part 4 Display device 5 Sound source unit 6 Amplifier 7, 8 Speaker 10 CD-ROM (storage medium) 21 CPU 22 RAM 23 ROM

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A music storage medium wherein music performance data and lyrics data of at least two or more different languages of the music are stored in association with each other in advance. 2. The music storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the format of the performance data is MIDI data. 3. Acquisition means for acquiring the performance data and the lyrics data, respectively, stored in the music storage medium according to claim 1 or 2. Playing means for performing a performance based on the first selecting means for selecting at least one language of the lyrics to be displayed and used from the lyrics data acquired by the acquiring means; and a language selected by the first selecting means. Display means for displaying lyrics in the selected language in accordance with the timing of performance of the performance means based on the lyrics data of the electronic music playback apparatus. 4. When two languages are selected by the first selection means and lyrics of the two selected languages are displayed on the display means, the two lyrics are displayed from among the two lyrics being displayed. 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a second selection unit for selecting one of the lyrics, and when one of the lyrics is selected by the second selection unit, the display unit switches to display only the selected lyrics. Electronic music playback device. 5. The electronic music reproducing device according to claim 3, wherein the lyrics displayed by the display means are displayed in a color-changed part during the performance by the performance means. 6. When the acquiring means acquires MIDI data from the music storage medium, the color change display of the lyrics performed by the display means is performed in synchronization with a timing clock constituting the MIDI data. The electronic music playback device according to claim 5, wherein: