Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1988-09-19
1990-10-02
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84611, 84613, 84462, 84477R, G09B 1504, G10G 304, G10H 142, G10H 700
Patent
active
049600311
ABSTRACT:
A method for electronically processing and storing musical information involves separating the musical information into a plurality of segments, each representing some portion of a measure, and assigning a sequential time dimension value to each segment. The musical information is also separated into plurality of channels, with each channel representing a sound source and having a sound dimension value assigned to it. The musical information for a given channel and segment is stored in a memory array by associating the musical information corresponding to a given channel and segment with the memory array node specified by the time dimension value and sound dimension value assigned to the given channel and segment.
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Witkowski Stanley J.
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