Method and device for generating a tone

Details Method and device for generating a tone Method and device for generating a tone

1999-09-02

2000-03-21

Donels, Jeffrey

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

G10H 700

Patent

active

060405155

ABSTRACT:
In a case where tone waveform sample data are to be arithmetically formed by software, there are installed, within a virtual device driver routine of an operating system, a MIDI processing routine for converting a received MIDI event into tone generator control data and a waveform forming processing routine for arithmetically forming tone waveform sample data for one frame. The MIDI processing routine is triggered by a software interrupt signal that is generated in response to a MIDI event produced from an application software program such as a sequencer software program, and the waveform forming processing routine is triggered by a hardware interrupt signal that is generated upon completion of tone reproduction for one frame.

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