Patent ID: 7112739
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. An electronic percussion instrument, comprising: a plurality of pads; detection means for detecting the striking intensity when a pad is struck; tone generation means for generating a musical tone in correspondence to a detected striking intensity; effect application means for applying one or more effects to a tone generated by the tone generation means; effect modification means for modifying parameters of the one or more effects applied by the effect application means in correspondence to the striking intensity detected when a pad is struck; and setting means associated with one or more of the pads, for selecting and setting a first and a second state wherein, in the first state the parameters of the one or more effects are modified by the effect modification means in response to a strike of the one or more associated pads and, in the second state the parameters of the one or more effects are not modified in response to a strike of the one or more associated pads.