Patent ID: 9263016
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G10H

Claim Text:
1. An electronic musical instrument comprising: an input device for inputting sound generation instructions of tones for note-on events at predetermined pitches; a tone generation device that generates tones with predetermined pitches based on sound generation instructions inputted by the input device; a sound generation buffer storing the sound generation instructions inputted by the input device; a specifying device that specifies a plurality of sound generation instructions in the sound generation buffer inputted by the input device in a first predetermined period as a sound generation instruction group in response to receiving the sound generation instructions from the input device to produce the tones corresponding to the inputted sound generation instructions; a sorting device that sorts the plurality of sound generation instructions in the sound generation buffer comprising the sound generation instruction group specified by the specifying device in a predetermined pitch order in response to the specifying device specifying the sound generation instruction group, wherein, when reference times respectively set for two consecutive sound generation instruction groups are within a second predetermined period, the pitch order in sorting a plurality of sound generation instructions composing a latter sound generation instruction group of the two consecutive sound generation instruction groups is changed to reverse order; and a control device that controls generation of tones by the tone generation device such that tones corresponding to the sound generation instruction group stored in the sound generation buffer are generated in the pitch order sorted by the sorting device to imitate a strumming performance played on the string instrument.