Electronic musical instrument including tone generator controller capable of conducting efficient control on different types of tone generators

摘要

A controller is arranged as a sub control unit between a CPU as a main control unit and a tone generator system. The main control unit outputs command data having a standard format as an instruction signal. The sub control unit generates and outputs instruction data as an instruction signal in a format according to the type of tone generator system on the basis of the command data. The tone generator system executes generation of a tone signal and processing associated with generation of the tone signal in accordance with the instruction data. The CPU can efficiently control tone generator systems of different types. Data transfer between the CPU and a plurality of tone generator systems of different types can be highly efficiently performed, and the processing load on the CPU can be reduced.