Abstract:
A disclosed wireless remote control apparatus includes a sensor, such as a capacitive sensing plate, and measurement circuitry coupled to the sensor. The measurement circuitry takes real time measurements of an electrical parameter from the sensor. The parameter, such as a capacitance or charge on the plate that relates to an electrical field in the vicinity of the sensor, represents a detection of position or movement of a member within a substantially continuous range in proximity to the sensor. In an example of a ring embodiment of the remote control device, the sensor detects position and/or movements in relation to the operator's finger. The remote control apparatus includes a wireless transmitter for wireless transmission of encoded messages and a controller. The controller controls the transmitter, to set durations of intervals between the message transmissions as a function of the measurements of the electrical parameter.
Abstract:
A Harmonic Generator for audio applications and a Pre-Amplifier circuit are combined to form a Harmonic Generator and Pre-Amplifier circuit. The Harmonic Generator is formed from a Buffer Circuit responsive to an input program signal for buffering the input program signal and for providing a buffered input program signal. A Modulator Circuit is coupled to receive the buffered input program signal and generates harmonics in response to changes in amplitude of the program input signal to provide a modulated input program signal. A Summing Circuit adds the buffered input program signal and the modulated input program signal to provide a composite modulated input program signal. The Pre-Amplifier is coupled to receive the composite modulated input program signal and process the signal in three audio frequency bands to provide a compensated output signal that includes harmonics generated by the modulator.
Abstract:
An amplifier circuit for providing a combined clean and dirty output signal from an electric guitar. The circuit has a panning pedal that has two potentiometers attached thereto so that movement of the panning pedal results in two continuously varying ranges of resistances being produced by the potentiometers. The output signal of the guitar is provided to the panning pedal and the resistance values of the potentiometers determine the proportion of the guitar output that is to be provided to a clean pre-amp stage (122) and the proportion that is to be provided to a dirty pre-amp stage (120). The clean pre-amp stage amplifies the output signal substantially without distortion and the dirty pre-amp amplifies the signal so as to produce a satured output signal. The outputs of the clean pre-amp stage and the dirty pre-amp stage are then combined to produce an output signal.
Abstract:
A system measures performance activity of a user using a motion capture device, such as one or more knee sleeves each a plurality of inertial-measurement unit. Captured motion characteristic data is classified against previously captured data and then mapped to particular audio effects, which are then altered in different ways depending on the classification and provided the user. The audio feedback works to improve the user's performance of the activity by changing between negative and positive feedback depending on the user's performance. The system regularly measures the motion capture data, altering audio effects provided to the user, until the user reaches an improvement goal.
Abstract:
A disclosed wireless remote control apparatus includes a sensor, such as a capacitive sensing plate, and measurement circuitry coupled to the sensor. The measurement circuitry takes real time measurements of an electrical parameter from the sensor. The parameter, such as a capacitance or charge on the plate that relates to an electrical field in the vicinity of the sensor, represents a detection of position or movement of a member within a substantially continuous range in proximity to the sensor. In an example of a ring embodiment of the remote control device, the sensor detects position and/or movements in relation to the operator's finger. The remote control apparatus includes a wireless transmitter for wireless transmission of encoded messages and a controller. The controller controls the transmitter, to set durations of intervals between the message transmissions as a function of the measurements of the electrical parameter.
Abstract:
A multi-channel noise reduction system provides improved noise reduction with direct instrument tracking of all channels. In a two channel noise reduction system, both channels detect and track the input level and dynamic range of the guitar directly with one channel of dynamic noise reduction between the guitar and the input of a guitar amplifier to eliminate the noise of the instrument and another channel of noise reduction connected in the effects loop of the guitar amplifier. Multiple channels of noise reduction can be implemented with separated threshold controls and with low level expansion and dynamic filtering being combined so as to detect and track the input level and dynamic range of the guitar directly. A buffer amplifier can be used to feed the direct guitar signal to the detectors of the noise reduction system and the input of a stereo guitar system.
Abstract:
A distortion device includes a transconductance stage, a current amplifier stage electrically coupled to the transconductance stage, and a transformer portion electrically coupled to the current amplifier stage. The transconductance stage includes a first capacitor to provide a ground to a resistor, and voltage across the resistor develops a current through a second capacitor to the current amplifier stage. The current amplifier stage includes a positive half cycle and a negative half cycle. The positive half cycle and the negative half cycle amplify the current from the transconductance stage and supply the amplified current to a primary winding of a transformer in the transformer portion, and the output of the transformer portion includes a low-level signal.
Abstract:
The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular; a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described, The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δ f , The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P ; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P ; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of F Δ f ; with F being a resolution factor, with F ≥1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F .
Abstract:
An audio apparatus is suitable for generating crowd sounds from an audio signal is disclosed in which the apparatus comprises modulation means operable to modulate a noise signal in response to the audio signal to generate a modulated noise signal, and diffusion delay means. The diffusion delay means is operable to apply a series of two or more delay operations, the input signal to a first such delay operation in the series being the modulated noise signal, and input to each subsequent delay operation in the series being the output signal generated by a preceding delay operation. Each delay operation comprises modifying that operation's input signal by the addition of a delayed version of that operation's input signal.