Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-01
2005-02-01
Fletcher, Marlon (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S609000, C084S622000, C084S625000, C084S649000, C084S659000, C084S660000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06849795
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a signal processing and signal synthesis technique from a family of signal processing and signal synthesis techniques designed to readily interwork or be used individually in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. A real-time controllable mix of a plurality of multiple output frequency-reduced signals and the cross-products of these signals provides rich animated harmonically partitioned spectra. Mixing parameters may be recalled from stored program control or modulated in real-time by arbitrary control signals, including envelope generators, low-frequency oscillators, and those derived from an original input signal, and specifically including the amplitude of an original input signal. The real-time controllable mix may have multiple outputs and be subjected to further signal processing and multiple-channel amplification. The invention may be used individually or in conjunction with other signal processing and signal synthesis techniques in creating new forms of rich musical timbres. The invention may also be used in spatially-distributed timbre construction.
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