Adaptive computation in a digital tone synthesizer

Details Adaptive computation in a digital tone synthesizer Adaptive computation in a digital tone synthesizer

1979-04-25

1980-11-04

Truhe, J. V.

Music

Instruments

84 101, G10H 102

Patent

active

042312787

ABSTRACT:
In a musical instrument having one or more tone generators in which a plurality of data words corresponding to the amplitudes of a corresponding number of evenly spaced reference points defining the waveform of one cycle of an audio signal are transferred sequentially from a note register to a digital-to-analog converter in repetitive cycles at a rate proportional to the pitch of the tone being generated, apparatus is provided for adaptively computing the set of data points in response to values of preselected harmonic coefficients. The computation apparatus advances past all harmonic coefficients of smaller magnitude than a selected threshold thereby reducing the computation time and making the instrument capable of responding to time varying tonal changes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4085644 (1978-04-01), Deutsch et al.

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