Patent ID: 7872189
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. An electronic musical sound generator comprising: first control means for sending an instruction to start or finish producing a sound; second control means for starting or finishing producing the sound in response to the instruction; data generation means for adding identification data to a tone sequence, a key number, and the intensity of performance of a sound to be produced or stopped; storage means for storing, when a key is pressed to cause sound production to be started, the identification data added by the data generation means for each sound production sequence together with the key number and the intensity of performance; first decision means for comparing the identification data added by the data generation means with the identification data stored in the storage means, for determining a sound production sequence to be stopped, according to a result of comparison, and for sending an instruction to stop the sequence, at least when the key is released among events regarded as triggers to finish the sound production; and second decision means for determining, if a sound production sequence to be stopped cannot be determined as the result of comparison, a sound production sequence to be stopped, according to the sequence being produced and the key number, and for sending an instruction to stop the sequence.