Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1990-01-16
1992-10-20
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84697, 84702, 84DIG10, 84DIG23, 331 78, G10H 1057, G10H 108, G10H 510
Patent
active
051572168
ABSTRACT:
A music synthesizer simulates the musical tones of bowed string and wind instruments. The synthesizer includes a noise generator which generates pulsed noise signals, as well as a resonant system or signal generator which generates deterministic or periodic signals. In one embodiment, the pulsed noise signals are combined with the periodic signals to generate an improved synthesized musical sound. In another embodiment, pulsed noise is added to an excitation signal for energizing a resonating system, which may or may not be dynamically coupled to the excitation generator, resulting in the generation of synthesized sound having appropriate noise characteristics for bowed string and wind instruments.
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The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Witkowski Stanley J.
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