An electronic keyboard instrument includes: a keyboard including a plurality of keys; a plurality of switches that are provided for each key and include a first switch and a second switch that are sequentially turned on by pressing of the key; and a processor. The processor instructs that a noise sound corresponding to a selected musical instrument sound be produced in accordance with a prescribed first envelope upon detecting turning on of the first switch by pressing of the key, and instructs that a main musical sound corresponding to the selected musical instrument sound be produced after detecting turning on of the second switch.

A method for customizing appliance alert tunes includes downloading a user selected alert tune from a server to an appliance over a network. The user selected alert tune is a plurality of synthesized notes. The method also includes saving the user selected alert tune in a memory of the appliance and playing the user selected alert tune on a sound emitter of the appliance in response to an activation condition for the user selected alert tune.

At least one electronic signal is converted into at least one electromagnetic field, where the electronic signal may be created or modulated by environmental, interactive, and programmed inputs. The at least one electromagnetic field vibrates a ferromagnetic element creating an acoustic sound and optionally a transducer converts the vibration into an electronic signal for processing.

A sound processing method includes: generating with a trained generative model, for each of a plurality of time points including a first time point, a first acoustic feature amount of a target sound to be generated, by sequentially processing input data including condition data representing conditions of the target sound; generating, for each of the plurality of time points, a time-domain waveform signal representing a waveform of the target sound based on the first acoustic feature amount; and generating, for each of the plurality of time points, a second acoustic feature amount based on the time-domain waveform signal. The input data at the first time point includes the second acoustic feature amount generated before the first time point.

A music piece analyzer includes: a key candidate determiner configured to analyze music data to determine a plurality of key candidates; and a key selector configured to extract each one of the plurality of key candidates, detect keys corresponding to related keys from among remaining ones of the plurality of key candidates supposing that the extracted one of the plurality of key candidates is a main key, on each extracted one of the plurality of key candidates, calculate a related key score in accordance with the number of the keys corresponding to the related keys, and select a key of a music piece in accordance with the related key score from among the plurality of key candidates.

Systems and methods for enabling the generating and modifying of sound elements is provided. A sound engine includes or is linked to one or more sound modification interfaces that enable one or more users to access a digital waveform generator/modifier utility (digital audio generator, digital envelope generator), so as to graphically map aspects of that audio waveform's generation, by tracing one or more Bezier paths defined that can be processed by the sound engine, so as to define or modify aspects of the waveform, such as its frequency, pitch and amplitude envelopes, harmonic structure, the timing or pitch of component waveform elements, or directly upon the waveform. The sound engine enables user manipulation of the Bezier paths, including touch input modification of the paths (e.g. dragging, forming etc.) that define or modify fundamental qualities of the corresponding waveform.

An apparatus to detect, analyze, record, and display audio data, including an input unit to allow a user to input musical notes corresponding to the audio data, a processor to analyze the musical notes and to save the musical notes into a file, and a display unit to display notes corresponding to the musical notes on a virtual instrument.

In various applications, the system provides a method for processing audio signals, including: receiving, by a processor, a digital audio signal from a recorded audio file; analyzing, by the processor, the digital audio signal to identify pitch distortion caused by changes in momentary sound level; determining, by the processor, an amount of compensation of the audio signal to correct the identified pitch distortion; dynamically adjusting, by the processor, the digital audio signal by the compensation amount to correct the identified pitch distortion; and outputting, by the processor, the digital audio signal to an audio transducer device of a listener to improve a listening experience for the listener of the recorded audio file.