Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Including amplitude or volume control – Automatic
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-08
2006-08-08
Mei, Xu (Department: 2644)
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Including amplitude or volume control
Automatic
C381S104000, C700S094000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07088835
ABSTRACT:
A digital wavetable audio synthesizer is described. A synthesizer volume generator, which has several modes of controlling the volume, adds envelope, right offset, left offset, and effects volume to the data. The data can be placed in one of sixteen fixed stereo pan positions, or left and right offsets can be programmed to place the data anywhere in the stereo field. The left and right offset values can also be programmed to control the overall volume. Zipper noise is prevented by controlling the volume increment. A synthesizer LFO generator can ad LFO variation to: (i) the wavetable data addressing rate, for creating a vibrato effect; and (ii) a voice's volume, for creating a tremolo effect. Generated data to be output from the synthesizer is stored in left and right accumulators. However, when creating delay-based effects, data is stored in one of several effects accumulators. This data is then written to a wavetable. The difference between the wavetable write and read addresses for this data provides a delay for echo and reverb effects. LFO variations added to the read address create a chorus and flange effects. The volume of the delay-based effects data can be attenuated to provide volume decay for an echo effect. After the delay-based effects processing, the data can be provided with left and right offset volume components which determine how much of the effect is heard and its stereo position. The data is then stored in the left and right accumulators.
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Norris David
Suggs David N.
Legerity Inc.
Mei Xu
Zagorin O'Brien Graham LLP
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