Patent ID: 6753467
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
An electronic musical instrument for generating electronic sound, comprising:a player's console having plural interfaces to which a player selectively expresses intentions to said electronic sound, and producing signals representative of said intentions; a signal processing system processing said signals so as to determine said intensions, and producing said sound in which said player's console and said signal processing system for propagating said signals from said player's console to said signal processing system; and an assistant provided in association with at least one of said plural interfaces and said signal processing system so as to make said intentions clear, in which said plural interfaces are categorized into a first group for producing one of said signal representative of a first attribute of said electronic sound and a second group containing more than one interface for producing another of said signals representative of a second attribute of said electronic sound so that said signal paths are smaller in number than said plural interfaces, and in which said assistant discriminates an intention expressed by said player on the basis of said another of said signals.