Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1995-11-22
1997-01-21
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84630, 84631, 84645, 84DIG26, G10H 106
Patent
active
055961592
ABSTRACT:
An audio signal processing system including an input circuit for inputting musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) commands in real time over a plurality of channels, a computer including a central processing unit (CPU) supplied with the MIDI commands for simultaneously synthesizing one or more voices for each of the channels in response to the MIDI commands, each of the voices being generated by one or more of a plurality of predefined audio synthesis algorithms executed in software, a random access memory (RAM) for storing digital voice data representative of each of the voices generated by the CPU, an output circuit for audibly reproducing the voices from the digital voice data stored in the RAM, and wherein the CPU, in generating the voices selects the one or more audio synthesis algorithms based on one or more of the following criteria: the external processing demands placed upon the CPU by other operations being performed by the personal computer, a best match, according to predetermined criteria, between the type of voice required and audio synthesis algorithms available to the CPU, and the availability of wavetable voice data to be buffered into the RAM.
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Fletcher Marlon T.
Invision Interactive, Inc.
Shaw, Jr. Philip M.
Shoop Jr. William M.
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