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7592532 Method and apparatus for remote voice-over or music production and management  
A desktop application and supporting web site for recording voice-over or music sessions is introduced, wherein the production staff and talent may be in separate remote locations. The application...
7589272 Bandlimited digital synthesis of analog waveforms  
A method for generating a bandlimited digital signal, includes generating a sequence of digital samples of a waveform, such as a sawtooth, square, or pulse waveform. The waveform has a...
7544879 Tone generation processing apparatus and tone generation assignment method therefor  
A plurality of tone generator devices include respective waveform data memories, and each of the waveform data memories is exclusively usable by the corresponding tone generator device, not...
7521622 Noise-resistant detection of harmonic segments of audio signals  
Respective pitch values are estimated for an audio signal. Candidate harmonic segments of the audio signal are identified from the estimated pitch values. Respective levels of harmonic content in...
7518053 Beat matching for portable audio  
Beat matching for two audio streams extracts beats from each, computes a conversion ratio from one stream to the other stream by an initial beat alignment plus a stability-maintaining beat...
7507894 Sound data encoding apparatus and sound data decoding apparatus  
A processing load at the time of playing back sound data having a loop part is reduced. A sound data encoding apparatus comprises a block dividing means that divides the sound data into blocks...
7504576 Method for automatically processing a melody with sychronized sound samples and midi events  
A method of automatically processing a melody is disclosed. A computing resource is provided for generating or processing a series of MIDI events as part of an automatic music algorithm. A memory...
7482530 Signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program  
A signal processing apparatus and method is disclosed by which signal components of different musical intervals of an audio signal can be obtained with a small amount of arithmetic operation. A...
7462773 Method of synthesizing sound  
There is provided a method of synthesizing a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) having wave table support. The wave table sample information is modified based on the newly searched loop...
7459625 Waveform processing apparatus with versatile data bus  
A waveform data processing apparatus has a bus that transfers data signals representative of waveform data. A plurality of transmitting nodes transmit the data signals to the bus. A plurality of...
7442868 Apparatus and method for processing ringtone  
Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing a ringtone in a wireless terminal. Position data of sound source samples corresponding to ringtone contents are extracted in advance and then...
7439441 Musical notation system  
An integrated system and software package for creating and performing a musical score including a user interface that enables a user to enter and display the musical score, a database that stores a...
7427709 Apparatus and method for processing MIDI  
Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing MIDI in a wireless terminal capable of controlling a volume of sound source samples when the MIDI is played. According to the method, a...
7425673 Tone output device and integrated circuit for tone output  
In a tone output device 100 , an oscillator 102 outputs a clock 141 that is emitted by a crystal resonator. A multiplication circuit 103 outputs a clock 142 that is generated by...
7423214 System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist  
A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of...
7414187 Apparatus and method for synthesizing MIDI based on wave table  
An apparatus and a method for synthesizing a MIDI based on a wave table are provided. According to the method, sound samples of a plurality of instruments stored in a wave table are compressed and...
7390953 Waveform data interpolation device and waveform data interpolation program  
With a decimal-fraction address representing a position between two continuous sample values and input from a decimal-fraction address calculation block ( 5 - 2 ) assumed as x, a product-sum block...
RE40364 Tone signal processing apparatus with intermittent clock supply  
A music apparatus is constructed for processing a music tone signal in response to a clock signal at each sampling period. In the music apparatus, a clock generator generates the clock signal. A...
7332668 Wavetable audio synthesis system  
The present invention relates to an audio synthesis system for performing wavetable audio synthesis. The system comprises an instrument database, an analysis module, a memory, a judgment module,...
7321094 Electronic musical instrument  
An electronic musical instrument internally stores automatic performance data. The electronic musical instrument reads automatic performance data to perform an automatic performance, while...
7276655 Music synthesis system  
The invention relates to a music synthesis system for synthesizing a corresponding digital music output according to commands from a music data file. The music data file comprises a plurality of...
7256339 Predator recordings  
The movement of animals may be controlled by recording a sound which initiates movement in an animal and combining that movement initiating sound with additional sounds to produce music. A...
7214870 Method and device for generating an identifier for an audio signal, method and device for building an instrument database and method and device for determining the type of an instrument  
In a method for generating an identifier for an audio signal including a tone generated by an instrument, a discrete amplitude-time representation of the audio signal is generated at first, wherein...
7211721 System and methods for memory-constrained sound synthesis using harmonic coding  
Systems ( 100 or 300 ) and methods ( 400 or 500 ) are provided for selecting a post-compression waveform from a post-compression waveform table ( 106 ) and supplying it to a synthesis engine (...
7151215 Waveform adjusting system for music file  
A waveform adjusting system for a music file suitable in hand held devices is described. A music file includes a plurality of tones, and the waveform adjusting system includes a maximum magnitude...
7119267 Portable mixing recorder and method and program for controlling the same  
There is provided a portable mixing recorder which enables a user to readily produce music using overdubbing and/or other recording techniques while suppressing degradation of sound quality to the...
7116328 Information-processing apparatus, image display control method and image display control program  
The present invention is intended to provide a information processing apparatus that includes information accumulating means for accumulating image motion information, display means for displaying...
7105734 Array of equipment for composing  
The invention relates to a novel array or piece of equipment ( 100 ) for providing assistance while composing musical compositions at least by means of acoustic reproduction during and/or after...
7096186 Device and method for analyzing and representing sound signals in the musical notation  
Sound signal is received which contains sound characteristics to be represented in musical notation. The characteristics, such as a volume level of the sound signal, are extracted out of the...
7081578 Musical performance information compression apparatus, and musical performance information decoding apparatus  
A musical performance information compression apparatus or the like of the present invention has a primary code production unit which separates SMF or the like into information of a relative time...
7058462 Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program  
An audio data processing means registers one of audio data extracted from a music CD as one of sound sources for an entertainment apparatus. The audio data processing means has an audio data...
7041892 Automatic generation of musical scratching effects  
The invention relates to a method for generating electrical sounds and to an interactive music player. According to the invention, an audio signal in digital format, which lasts for a...
7039477 Device and method for processing tone data by controlling sampling rate  
From a storage device storing waveform sample data sampled at a given sampling rate, the waveform sample data are read out asynchronously with the given sampling rate and temporarily stored in an...
7038119 Dynamic control of processing load in a wavetable synthesizer  
A wavetable synthesizer is controlled by dynamically determining a present CPU loading estimate associated with a song being played by the wavetable synthesizer. An interpolation degree is...
6995309 System and method for music identification  
A system and method that allows users to find a song name, artist and performance without having to proceed through many false results. In one aspect, the system and method use signal matching to...
6992245 Singing voice synthesizing method  
A frequency spectrum is detected by analyzing a frequency of a voice waveform corresponding to a voice synthesis unit formed of a phoneme or a phonemic chain. Local peaks are detected on the...
6972362 Method and device for generating electronic sounds and portable apparatus utilizing such device and method  
An electronic sound generation device is adapted to start arithmetic processing with a start signal. When the arithmetic processing is not completed in a period between two sampling signals of a...
6921856 PERFORMANCE TONE PROVIDING APPARATUS, PERFORMANCE TONE PROVIDING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR USE IN THE SYSTEM, PERFORMANCE TONE PROVIDING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE PROGRAM  
There is provided a performance tone providing apparatus that enables the user to listen to musical tones sounded from a desired musical instrument according to his/her performing operation even if...
6909924 Method and apparatus for shifting pitch of acoustic signals  
A method for shifting a pitch of acoustic signals, which are expressed in terms of a series of digital signals, to an optional pitch, uses a compacting and/or expanding process on the time axis and...
6900381 Method for removing aliasing in wave table based synthesizers  
A method and apparatus are provided for changing the pitch of a tabulated waveform in wavetable based synthesizers. Harmonics that normally would be aliased before a transposition process are...
6881892 Method of configurating acoustic correction filter for stringed instrument  
A method is provided for designing an acoustic correction filter applicable to a stringed instrument, which is composed of a string member operable to undergo a vibration, a support member for...
6867357 Enhanced mechanical acoustic sound generation system and method  
Enhancing the sound quality of a mechanical acoustic sound generation device that has a plurality of notes that have a perceived low sound quality by digital sampling the corresponding notes of a...
6867356 Musical tone generating apparatus, musical tone generating method, and program for implementing the method  
There is provided a musical tone generating apparatus that is capable of generating more natural musical tones even when musical tone waveform data is generated at a recording sampling frequency...
6858790 Digital sampling instrument employing cache memory  
A digital sampling instrument for multi-channel interpolatative playback of digital audio data stored in a waveform memory provides improved interpolation of musical sounds by use of a cache memory.
6856923 Method for analyzing music using sounds instruments  
A method for analyzing digital-sounds using sound-information of instruments and/or score-information is provided. Particularly, sound-information of instruments which were used or which are being...
6787689 Fast beat counter with stability enhancement  
A real time, multi-function beat counting system used in machine perception of musical rhythms employs a high speed stable algorithm including down sampling and group summing of the original...
6762357 Resonance apparatus, resonance method and computer program for resonance processing  
Resonance is realized at a desired plurality of tone pitches even after the musical tone signals of a plurality of channels have been synthesized; synthesized musical tone signals are successively...
6734351 Apparatus and method for sampling and storing audio information and apparatus for outputting audio information  
An apparatus for sampling partial audio information from audio information and storing it in a memory device provided with: a sampling device for sampling the partial audio information from the...
6640257 System and method for audio control  
The present invention comprises a system that provides a convenient and easy-to-use means for controlling audio input and output for recording. The system includes a first input adapted to receive...
6639142 Apparatus and method for processing waveform data to constitute musical performance data string  
A waveform data processing apparatus includes a waveform data recording device which records waveform data representing waveform samples, and a waveform events track recording device which records,...
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