US 12,094,440 B2
Electronic musical instrument, sound production method for electronic musical instrument, and storage medium
Hiroki Sato, Tokyo (JP); and Hajime Kawashima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/344,804.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-109089 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0407474 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G10H 1/14 (2006.01); G10H 1/46 (2006.01)
CPC G10H 1/0008 (2013.01) [G10H 1/14 (2013.01); G10H 1/46 (2013.01); G10H 2210/066 (2013.01); G10H 2210/571 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic musical instrument, comprising:
a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data;
a sound source that produces musical sounds; and
a processor configured to perform the following:
when a user plays a set plural number of the performance elements simultaneously within a set time period, thereby defining a chord playing, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a first timbre and a sound of a second timbre, both corresponding to a pitch data specified by the set plural number of the performance elements played by the user; and
when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements is not the chord playing, instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the first timbre corresponding to the pitch data specified by the user performance and not instructing the sound source to produce the sound of the second timbre.