Electronic musical instrument

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1985-09-09

1989-02-14

Witkowski, Stanley J.

Music

Instruments

84 124, 84 127, 84 128, G10H 108, G10H 700

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RE0328626

ABSTRACT:
More than one sub-intervals or time-windows are provided in a one-cycle period of a musical tone selected at a keyboard of an electronic musical instrument. Each time-window passes a sine wave having a frequency predetermined for the time-window. The envelope of the spectrum of a time-window is determined by the shape and the width of the time-window, and the envelope of the spectrum of a sine wave passed from the time-window will become the convolution of the spectrum of the time-window and the frequency of the sine wave. The total area of the frequency spectrum included as frequency components of a musical tone can be covered by several time-windows, each having a different length and passing a sine wave of a different frequency. An amplitude control means controls the amplitude of each sine wave independently. The controlled amplitude level determines the spectrum intensity of the frequency region influenced by the corresponding sine wave. When the levels of all the sine waves are properly controlled, the resultant harmonic contents will be a desired one which produces a desired tone quality.

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