A mixing device of a first signal and a second signal on a time-frequency plane, includes a control signal generation unit to generate a control signal indicating whether to perform prioritized mixing that includes amplification of the first signal and attenuation of the second signal; and a gain derivation unit to derive a first gain for amplifying the first signal and a second gain for attenuating the second signal based on the control signal. The control signal takes at least a first value and a second value different from the first value, wherein the first value is not continuous beyond a predetermined bandwidth on a frequency axis. The mixing device applies the prioritized mixing to the first and second signals when the control signal indicates the first value, and applies simple addition to the first and second signals when the control signal indicates the second value.

A device is provided for capturing vibrations produced by an object such as a musical instrument such as a cymbal of a drum kit. The device comprises a detectable element, such as a ferromagnetic element, such as a metal shim and a sensor spaced apart from and located relative to the musical instrument. The detectable element is located between the sensor and the musical instrument. When the musical instrument vibrates, the sensor remains stationary and the detectable element is vibrated relative to the sensor by the musical instrument.

An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: causing a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output to be not advanced no matter how the second keys in the second pitch range are operated while a key operation in the first pitch range is being continuously maintained; and causing the syllable position to advance every time a key operation in the second pitch rang is performed while none of the first keys in the first pitch range are being operated.

A sound output device comprising a data storage device storing a first sound signal, a second sound signal, and a third sound signal and a controller including a processor that implements instructions stored in a memory to execute a plurality of tasks, including a sound signal output tasks that reads the first and second sound signals or the first and third sound signals from the data storage device based on first information included in an instruction signal that instructs outputting of sound, the first information designating a magnitude of the sound and outputs the read sound signals.

A media-content augmentation system includes a processing system that receives input data in the form of temporally-varying events data. The processing system resolves the input into one or more categorized contextual themes, correlates the themes with metadata associated with at least one reference media file, and then splices or fades together selected parts of the media file, thus generating as an output, a media product in which transitions between its contextual themes are aligned with selected temporal events in the input data. The temporarily-varying events take the form of a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature, or a specific point in time for a hit point. A method aligns sections in digital media files with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product. The system augments a sensory experience of a user by dynamically changing and then playing selected media files within the context of the categorized themes input to the processing system.

An electronic musical instrument includes a playing operator, and a sound source which performs processing of receiving, in response to a user operation on the playing operator, a sound generation instruction according to playing operation information including the pitch information indicating the certain pitch and sound volume information indicating a certain volume, and generating sound according to the certain pitch and the certain volume, based on excitation data generated by multiplying partial data by a window function, the partial data being included in excitation signal waveform data generated based on a plurality of waveform data items which are respectively different from each other in sound intensity in the certain pitch.

The invention discloses a western and national ensemble instrument which comprises an instrument body, and a key assembly, a matrix circuit, a main board, a function control device and a timbre control device arranged on the instrument body; the key assembly is electrically connected with the matrix circuit; the matrix circuit is electrically connected with the main board; the main board is electrically connected with the function control device; the main board comprises an electrically connected timbre device packaged with a plurality of western musical instrument timbres and a plurality of national opera timbres. Due to the fact that the timbre control device is arranged on the panel of the instrument body, the timbre control device is electrically connected with the function control device by the main board to invoke timbre information corresponding control and any matching and superposition control.

A mixing technique is provided that can suppress degradation of non-priority sound and output more natural mixed sound, regardless of the size and quality of a playback device.

A mixing device of a first signal and a second signal on a time-frequency plane, includes a control signal generation unit configured to generate a control signal indicating whether to perform prioritized mixing that includes amplification of the first signal and attenuation of the second signal; and a gain derivation unit configured to derive a first gain for amplifying the first signal and a second gain for attenuating the second signal based on the control signal, wherein the control signal takes at least a first value and a second value different from the first value, wherein the first value is not continuous beyond a predetermined bandwidth on a frequency axis, and wherein the mixing device applies the prioritized mixing to the first signal and the second signal in response to the control signal indicating the first value, and applies simple addition to the first signal and the second signal in response to the control signal indicating the second value.

An automated music performance system that is driven by the music-theoretic state descriptors of any musical structure (e.g. a music composition or sound recording). The system can be used with next generation digital audio workstations (DAWs), virtual studio technology (VST) plugins, virtual music instrument libraries, and automated music composition and generation engines, systems and platforms. The automated music performance system generates unique digital performances of pieces of music, using virtual musical instruments created from sampled notes or sounds and/or synthesized notes or sounds. Each virtual music instrument has its own set of music-theoretic state responsive performance rules that are automatically triggered by the music theoretic state descriptors of the music composition or performance to be digitally performed. An automated virtual music instrument (VMI) library selection and performance subsystem is provided for managing the virtual musical instruments during the automated digital music performance process.

An electronic percussion device has a plurality of triggerable actuators, in the form of any of pads, external trigger inputs or foot switches, that may be organized into synchronized groups, and has an operational mode in which triggering of any actuator within the synchronized group initiates playback of audio events or execution of control functions associated with other of the actuators within the synchronized group in one of multiple different synchronization orders, e.g. one at a time, all simultaneously, random or in a predefined or user-defined consecutive order.