摘要:
A music tone pitch shift apparatus which converts an original audio signal into digital data by way of pulse code modulation (PCM), shifting the pitch, and converting the pitch shifted digital data into an analog signal. The PCM digital data is stored in a ring memory at a given sampling speed, and is read out of the memory by a pair of identical read circuits at a common read addressing speed corresponding to the desired pitch. One of the read circuits starts reading from the opposite address location to the other on the ring memory. Since the read addressing speed is set faster than the write addressing speed when increasing the pitch, and vice versa, overtaking or lapping between the addresses could occur. In switching alternately the read circuits from a now-outputting side to a switching-to side, the read address on the switching-to side circuit is stopped increasing at an address location where a zero-amplitude data has been read, until a zero-amplitude data in phase with that which the switching-to side circuit has read is read by the now-outputting side circuit and the switching is made, immediately before the overtaking or lapping occurs on the now-outputting side circuit. Thus, a smooth connection of the pitch shifted audio signals can be made without including such amplitude modulated components as in the cross fade method, and therefore, a high-quality music tone pitch shift operation can be realized.
摘要:
A digital audio signal processing technique in which the harmonic content of the output signal varies with the amplitude of an input signal. The preferred embodiment includes an analog to digital converter with sample and hold, a digital signal memory with playback control apparatus, timing circuits, a RAM look-up table to perform non-linear transformation and finally a digital to analog converter. The input signal, which can be an arbitrary audio signal or a digital signal representative of such a signal, is modified by a non-linear transformation means and outputted for reproduction in audible form or stored for subsequent processing.
摘要:
Truncate processing is performed so that a new tone is not generated before the envelope waveform is finished but the new tone is produced after the volume of the previous tone is sufficiently diminished, by which the new tone can be produced with a satisfactory feeling of attack. Further, the envelope waveform is not abruptly interrupted and cleared in a moment but is decayed at a constant and high speed, thereby preventing the generation of noise such as a click. Moreover, demanded speed data is provided for each tone, by which it is possible to produce repective tones not at a demanded speed like the least common multiple but at an optimum speed for each tone and to make the previous tone generation proceed to the next tone generation without producing noise such as a click.
摘要:
A double buffer system of a small storage capacity is employed for reducing the noise generation in musical waveforms. The operations of the buffers are utilized for performing an interpolation between waveforms and between successive sample points of each waveform, whereby the number of sample points of the waveform being read out is increased to smooth its level variation, producing a good quality musical tone as if it were obtained by quantizing the synthesized musical waveform.
摘要:
Two waveshapes corresponding to an attack portion and a part of portion succeeding the attack portion of a tone to be produced are stored in a waveshape memory. The waveshape of the attack portion is read out once and thereafter the other waveshape is repetitively read out. In order to connect smoothly the repetitively read out waveshape, an interpolation operation is performed in specified sections at the end and at the beginning of the waveshape. A tone waveshape to be finally formed is constituted by the other waveshape itself in other section than the specified sections and by a new waveshape formed by the interpolation operation in the specified sections in the other waveshape, thereby realizing the smooth connection of the repetitive read out waveshapes.
摘要:
A digital audio workstation organizes musical information in a visually consistent manner, such that it is easier for the user to see and to manipulate the content in a song. The organization includes a multitrack music stream, which depicts multiple adjacent streams (or “tracks”) of musical content playing in parallel; a Play Bar, which is a visual plane intersecting the music stream; and two or more data layers, which are spatially aligned with the underlying musical stream, but each of which contains a specific type of musical data which can be viewed and manipulated in isolation. This approach to visual organization of music information has some major benefits to the user. Many different kinds of musical content and transformations can be depicted in a clear and consistent manner, making it easier for the user to see and manipulate the song.
摘要:
Techniques are disclosed relating to generating music content. In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more musical attributes based on external data and generating music content based on the one or more musical attributes. Generating the music content may include selecting from stored sound loops or tracks and/or generating new tracks based on the musical attributes. Selected or generated sound loops or tracks may be layered to generate the music content. Musical attributes may be determined in some embodiments based on user input (e.g., indicating a desired energy level), environment information, and/or user behavior information. Artists may upload tracks, in some embodiments, and be compensated based on usage of their tracks in generating music content. In some embodiments, a method includes generating sound and/or light control information based on the musical attributes.
摘要:
An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of keys respectively specifying different pitches when operated; a memory; and a sound processor. In response to a current operation of a current key, which is one of the plurality of keys, the sound processor retrieves the information stored in the memory for a previous operation, if any, of a previous key, which is a same as the current key or is another one of the plurality of keys, and performs a prescribed processing on a beginning part of the waveform data generated for the current operation of the current key in accordance with the retrieved information stored in the memory for the previous operation of the previous key so as to generate processed waveform data in response to the current operation of the current key. The resulting processed waveform data can be configured to better mimic artists' performance of an original instrument.
摘要:
Trigger devices, systems, and methods for sensing a strike on a vibratory membrane. A trigger device includes an optical sensor positioned a distance from the vibratory membrane and a processing device. The optical sensor includes an emitter that emits modulated light towards the vibratory membrane and a receiver that receives the modulated light that has reflected off the vibratory membrane and generates an electrical signal corresponding to the received modulated light. The electrical signal includes a peak corresponding to a detected strike on the vibratory membrane. The processing device isolates the peak from the electrical signal and generates one or more of a signal and data corresponding to the electrical signal.
摘要:
A device for reading waveform data of a musical tone from a primary storage device and transferring the read waveform data to a secondary storage device for tone reproduction includes a processor configured to perform: retrieving, for each waveform of a plurality of waveforms that represent a musical tone stored in the primary storage device, segment group information from the primary storage device; retrieving the plurality of waveforms that represent the musical tone from the primary storage device, the waveform group retrieval process retrieving a waveform or waveforms, among the plurality of waveforms, that have the same segment group information as a group; and writing, as a single group, the waveform or waveforms, among the plurality of waveforms, that have the same segment group information onto one of prescribed storage segments that are storage regions of prescribed sizes in the secondary storage device.