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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ralph Deutsch, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kawai Musical Instrument Mfg. Co., Ltd., Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ; G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84-122 ; 84-124 ; 84DI / ;
Abstract
In a musical instrument in which a plurality of data words corresponding to the amplitudes of a corresponding number of evenly spaced points defining a cycle of an audible musical waveform are transformed at an average rate corresponding to the fundamental frequency of the tone being generated, a computation means is provided to produce musical tones having an ensemble effect. The computation means comprises a multiplicity of interpolation calculations whereby a sequence of interpolated waveshape points are obtained from two different waveshapes whose data points are addressed from waveshape memories at different memory advance rates.