Audio signal processor providing simulated source distance contr

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1995-06-27

1996-09-10

Cumming, William

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Sound effects

Reverberators

84630, H03G 300

Patent

active

055553060

ABSTRACT:
An audio signal processing system produces an output 24 having an illusory distance effect for a sound source signal S by feeding it via a direct signal path 25 and an indirect signal path 22, 23 passing through early reflection simulation apparatus 1 which feed an output mixing mechanism 9. A control system adjusts the relative delays 3, 4 and relative gains 5, 6 in the direct 25 and indirect 22, 23 signal paths to modify the illusory distance effect so as to substantially maintain the mathematical relationship between the gains and time delays of simulated reflections relative to first sound arrivals at the output 24 encountered for sounds at that source distance in actual rooms. Signal paths 22, 23, 24, 25 may be stereophonic or multichannel using matrix gain coefficients in the early reflection simulator 1, and may produce different simulated distances for different sound positions. A plurality of sound sources S may have different simulated distances while feeding a common early reflection simulator 1.

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