Musical tone generator with independent time varying harmonics

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4387622
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06284744

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In a musical instrument having one or more tone generators in which a plurality of data words corresponding to the amplitudes of a corresponding number of evenly spaced points defining the waveform of one cycle of a musical signal are transferred sequentially from a note register to a digital-to-analog converter in repetitive cycles at a rate proportional to the pitch of the tone being generated, apparatus is provided for producing tones having independent time-varying harmonic components. A recursive algorithm is implemented which approximates prespecified harmonic-time curves by piecewise segments of exponential functions. Only a small number of stored curve parameters are required to generate the harmonic-time scale factor for a set of harmonic coefficients.

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  • KAWAI MUSICAL INST. MFG. CO., LTD.

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Deutsch, Ralph Sherman Oaks, CA 86 506

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