Digital timing system for an electronic musical instrument

Details Digital timing system for an electronic musical instrument Digital timing system for an electronic musical instrument

1974-11-12

1976-04-27

Hix, L. T.

Music

Instruments

84 125, 84 126, 235152, 235197, G10H 102

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039526232

ABSTRACT:
Timing signals of adjustable rate are estabilished digitally in an electronic musical instrument through the use of digital timing numbers. A selected one of such numbers is repetitively added to the contents of an accumulating adder at a fixed rate. A train of timing pulses is obtained from one bit output of the adder; the rate of these pulses is directly related to the value of the selected timing number. Alternatively, consecutively updated parallel bit timing codes can be obtained from plural bit outputs of the accumulating adder. These timing codes, which are incremented or decremented in value by amounts established by the selected timing number, are useful for directly addressing a memory containing a set of musical instrument factors that are to be utilized on a time dependent basis.

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