Music – Instruments
Patent
1981-11-25
1984-01-10
Isen, F. W.
Music
Instruments
84 103, 364718, G10H 100
Patent
active
044247303
ABSTRACT:
An electronic musical instrument which can be manufactured at low cost using a system of generating frequency information corresponding to the note of each key as a frequency number on a non-real time basis. The electronic musical instrument is provided with a frequency number memory for storing the frequency number corresponding to the note of each key and delivering the frequency number corresponding to key information from a key assignor, means for executing an operation in units of the delivered frequency number a plurality of times and transferring the operation result to a buffer memory upon each execution of the operation, and a memory for storing the results of the operation executed the plurality of times.
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Snell, Design of a Digital Oscillator which will Generate up to 256 Low-Distortion Sine Waves in Real Time, Computer Music Journal, vol. 1, No. 2, Apr. 1977.
Isen F. W.
Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
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