Drum and percussion synthesizer

Details Drum and percussion synthesizer Drum and percussion synthesizer

1994-02-10

1995-07-18

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84730, G10H 300, G10H 132

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054343500

ABSTRACT:
A percussion synthesizer comprising a generally triangular body with a triangular upper surface upon which a plurality of piezoelectric transducers are mounted. Side surfaces adjacent the top surface and intersecting same at angles between 180 and 270 degrees also carry transducers. The outputs from the transducers are provided to a MIDI interface that transmits standard musical instrument digital interface data to a sound reproduction device. The identity of the transducer provides the pitch information for the MIDI interface and the velocity is calculated from the time rate of change of the output voltage from the piezoelectric transducers.
An improved transducer having superior cross talk suppression capabilities is also disclosed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4418598 (1983-12-01), Klynas
patent: 4867028 (1989-09-01), Jones
patent: 5223655 (1993-06-01), Watanabe et al.

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