US Patent Issued to Roland on Nov. 18 for "Arpeggiator, recording medium and method of making arpeggio" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,871, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Arpeggiator, recording medium and method of making arpeggio" was invented by Akihiro Nagata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takaaki Hagino (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a synthesizer 1, the highest note number is set from the allowed Oct width and the lowest note number of a sound production part in a setting table 11e, and if the note number of an Arp note memory 12b is not between the lowest note number and the highest note number, the note number of one octave unit is added to or subtracted from the note number of the Arp note memory 12b. Consequen...