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Style change apparatus and a karaoke apparatus
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Inventors: Matsumoto, Shuichi;
Assignee: Yamaha Corporation (Hamamatsu, JP)
Primary Examiner: Witkowski; Stanley J.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
On an initial screen, a conversion ratio indicated by a style conversion ratio data is displayed in a display area 32. Various kinds of styles are displayed in display areas 33 to 38. In this case, a style which is currently selected is "Samba" which blinks, and the conversion ratio is 50%. When a style number corresponding to samba is "2," a style change is conducted for the original performance data based on a style conversion data corresponding to the style number 2. At this time, the conversion ratio of 50% is referred, and changes of a sound-producing timing, a tone color, an additional instrument, and the like are conducted. An image displayed on a monitor is changed based on an image conversion data. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention has been conducted in view of the above-described circumstances.
It is an object of the invention to provide a karaoke apparatus in which the style of a music piece can be changed in real time while the amount of data is not increased to a burdensome level.
In order to solve the problems, the present invention provides a style change apparatus which changes performance data for playing an original music piece, thereby changing a style of the original music piece, and which comprises: storing means for storing the performance data and for storing style data for changing the style of the original music piece to various styles in units of predetermined periods; first inputting means for inputting a desired style; second inputting means for inputting a conversion data indicating a degree of a style change; and changing means for changing the performance data in units of the predetermined periods, based on the style data corresponding to the input style, and the input conversion data.
In order to solve the problems, the present invention is provided a karaoke apparatus which comprises a style change apparatus, and which displays an image including words and a background on a monitor in accordance with a progress of the music piece, wherein the storing means stores a display data for designating an image which is to be displayed on the monitor, each of the style data includes a display change data for changing an image to be displayed on the monitor, and the karaoke apparatus comprises: image storing means for storing images which are to be displayed on the monitor; display means for reading out the image designated by the style data corresponding to the style which is input through the first inputting means, from the image storing means, and for displaying the image on the monitor; synthesizing means for synthesizing a performance signal based on the performance data which is changed by the changing means with a voice signal from a microphone; and sound producing means for producing sounds based on an output signal of the synthesizing means
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