Musical sound production apparatus and musical
View Patent ↗A control unit controls to access the beat guide file for timings of beats, cues, lyrics, and messages of musical sound data to be reproduced, and controls an image processing unit to display beat guide objects ( 52 a and 52 b ), which respectively represent beat timings and reproducing pitches of selected musical sound data. This allows a user to reproduce musical sound data at will by referring to the beat guide objects ( 52 a and 52 b ) and visually recognizing beat progression, reproducing pitches, cue positions, lyrics, and messages of the musical sound data to be reproduced.
1. A musical sound reproduction apparatus, which is capable of adjusting at least one of a reproducing pitch or beat timings for musical sound data, comprising:
a display unit that displays various information regarding reproduction processing of the musical sound data; and
a control unit that detects a reproducing pitch and a beat timing for the musical sound data, generates object images that represent the detected reproducing pitch and beat timings, controls the display unit to display the generated object images for each musical sound data when there are two or more pieces of musical sound data to be reproduced, and moves and displays object images for each piece of musical sound data at the same speed.
2. The musical sound reproduction apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the object images are first object images deployed at beat positions.
3. The musical sound reproduction apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit combines and displays first object images for musical sound data in sync with beat timings.
4. A computer readable musical sound reproduction program product for adjusting at least one of a reproducing pitch or a beat timing for musical sound data, the computer readable musical sound reproduction program causing a computer to:
display various information regarding reproduction processing of the musical sound data;
detect a reproducing pitch and a beat timing for the musical sound data;
generate object images that represent the detected reproducing pitch and beat timing; and
control a display unit to display the generated object images for each musical sound data when there are two or more pieces of musical sound data to be reproduced, and to move and display object images for each piece of musical sound data at the same speed.
5. The computer readable musical sound reproduction program product, according to claim 4 , wherein the object images are first object images deployed at beat positions.
6. The computer readable musical sound reproduction program product, according to claim 4 , further causing the computer to combine and display first object images for musical sound data in sync with beat timings.