Electronic sound synthesizer

• US 4,783,812 A
• Filed: 08/05/1986
• Issued: 11/08/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation), Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kaneoka, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Isen, Forester W.
• Application Number:
  US06/893,341
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: 84/1.01, 84/1.19, 84/1.22, 84/1.23, 84/1.26, 84/1.27, 381/61, 381/119
• US Class Current: 381/61
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/04 by additional modulation
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/04 in which amplitudes are read at varying rates, e.g. according to pitch
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/02 Synthesis of acoustic waves synthesis of speech G10L13/00

Abstract

An electronic source synthesizer that employs frequency modulation. Wave-form data of both a fundamental wave and a modulated wave are stored in a RAM as 6-bit digital data. A sine wave signal is produced by modulation wave frequency data and the wave-form data from the RAM. The sine wave signal is multiplied with amplitude data of the modulation wave to obtain the modulation index data (J(t)). The frequency data (w_c) of the fundamental wave and the modulation index data are multiplied. A result of the multiplication provides a read out address of the RAM for storing the wave-form data of the fundamental wave, thereby changing the read out speed of the RAM. The digital data read out from the RAM is converted to an analog sound signal by a D/A converter. Amplitude data (A) of the fundamental wave is pulse-width modulated, and the digital data from the RAM is gated by the modulated pulse. Thus the output of the D/A converter is activated and, forms a sound signal represented by the equation e=A sin J(t) w_c t.

Claims

1. An electronic sound source apparatus comprising;

a first addressable memory means for storing fundamental wave wave-form data as a digital value,

an operating means for producing a modulation index (J(t)<

B(t) (C+Sin w_m t) that changes with time according to modulation envelope data and modulation wave wave-form data w_m t, and wherein C is a constant,

a first multiplying means for multiplying fundamental wave frequency data (w_c) and said modulation index data J(t), and

means for applying the multiplied result of said first multiplying means to said first memory means as read out address data, thereby changing a rate at which said fundamental wave wave-form data is read out of said first memory means, and further comprising;

a D/A converting means for converting the digital value read out from said first memory means into an analog signal to produce a sound signal (e=Sin J(t)·

w_c t).

2. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said operating means includes a second multiplying means that produces said modulation index data (J(t)) based upon a modulation wave wave-form data of modulating frequency (w_m) and said modulation envelope data.

3. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 2, wherein said operating means includes a second memory means for storing said modulation wave wave-form data as a digital value, said modulation wave wave-form data being read out from said second memory means according to said modulation frequency (w_m) and then being applied to said second multiplying means.

4. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises means for providing a fundamental wave envelope data (A(t)), and changing means for varying said rate at which said fundamental wave wave-form data is read out of said first memory means on the basis of said fundamental envelope data (A(t)), such that the amplitude of the output sound signal from said D/A converting means is altered based upon said rate.

5. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 4, wherein said changing means includes a means for outputting a pulse signal having a duration correlated with said fundamental wave envelope data, and a gate means for gating the output of said first memory means by said pulse signal.

6. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises means for providing said fundamental wave envelope data (A(t)), means for outputting a time-width signal having a time width corresponding to said fundamental wave amplitude, and an activating means for activating the output of said D/A converting means in response to said time-width signal.

7. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 6, wherein said activating means includes means for gating the fundamental wave wave-form data of said first memory means by said time-width signal.

8. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 7, which further comprises a power source for applying a DC voltage to said D/A converting means, wherein said activating means includes means for activating and deactivating said power source in response to said time-width signal.

9. A sound source apparatus for electronic equipment in accordance with claim 7, wherein said activating means includes an analog switch which receives the output of said D/A converting means, and is controlled by said time-width signal.

10. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises a main unit containing said first memory means, operating means, first multiplying means and D/A converting means, and means for setting said data including an external memory means removably connected to said main unit.

11. An electronic sound source apparatus comprising;

a wave-form data output means for outputting wave-form data, said wave form data having a plurality of bits,

means for producing amplitude data of a modulation envelope signal,

means for outputting a time-width signal having time-width corresponding to said amplitude data,

a D/A converter means for converting the wave-form data from said wave-form data output means into an analog signal, and

an activating means for activating said D/A converter in response said time-width signal.

12. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 11, wherein said activating means includes means for gating the wave-form data from said wave-form data output means by said time-width signal.

13. A sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 12, which further comprises a power source for applying DC voltage to said D/A converter, wherein said activating means includes means for activating and deactivating said power source in response to said time-width signal.

14. An electronic sound source apparatus in accordance with claim 12, wherein said activating means includes an analog switch which receives the output of said D/A converter, and is controlled by said time-width signal.