Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
  • G10H3/00—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means
  • G10H3/12—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument
  • G10H3/14—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means
  • G10H3/18—Instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means using mechanical resonant generators, e.g. strings or percussive instruments, the tones of which are picked up by electromechanical transducers, the electrical signals being further manipulated or amplified and subsequently converted to sound by a loudspeaker or equivalent instrument using mechanically actuated vibrators with pick-up means using a string, e.g. electric guitar
  • G10H3/186—Means for processing the signal picked up from the strings
  • G10H3/187—Means for processing the signal picked up from the strings for distorting the signal, e.g. to simulate tube amplifiers
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
  • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
  • G10H1/0033—Recording/reproducing or transmission of music for electrophonic musical instruments
  • G10H1/0041—Recording/reproducing or transmission of music for electrophonic musical instruments in coded form
  • G10H1/0058—Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system
  • G10H1/0066—Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system using a MIDI interface

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for storing and generating sound effects using analog devices when playing a musical instrument.
• BESTATIGUNGSKOPIE adjust the potentiometers (potentiometers) in a specific way. Since there is no time for the musicians to perform these settings during a performance, you have to have for each sound effect that you want permanently available to have a corresponding effect device, which is preset to the desired sound effect. For example, if you want to create 13 different sound effects using a specific effects device, you need 13 corresponding effect devices of this type, which are preset to the different sound effects. The (financial) effort is therefore significant.
• the object is to provide a device that allows to save sound effects when playing a musical instrument and using analog devices to produce without having to hold a variety of similar effect devices, the call a certain sound effect is sufficiently fast and easy, so that it can be done during a performance.
• the object is achieved by a device for storing and generating sound effects using analog devices when playing a musical instrument, the device has one or more servo motors, which are connected via shafts with potentiometers of the analog devices, the device means for storing and retrieving the settings of the servomotors and wherein a particular setting of the servomotors of generating a specific sound effect is used.
• a device which has servomotors whose position corresponds to the corresponding position of a potentiometer of the analog device.
• the force between the potentiometer and the servo motor is transmitted via a preferably flexible shaft.
• various settings of the servomotors can be stored, which in turn is linked to the generation of a specific sound effect.
• the servomotor starts moving and adjusts the potentiometer of the corresponding analog device via the intermediate shaft.
• the analogue devices can be conventional effect devices and tube amplifiers, ie, despite the programmability of a large number of sound effects, no loss in terms of the generated sound is to be feared.
• the invention thus combines the high sound quality of analog 5 devices with the programmability and easy accessibility of sound effects, as they were previously able to provide digital devices at best.
• the musician can easily retrieve a particular sound effect by using the device according to the invention, he no longer has to set the corresponding analog device himself, which would hardly be possible during a performance, but the adjustment is made via the servomotors of the device. Accordingly, it is also unnecessary to provide a plurality of similar effect devices to preset different sound effects.
• a specific effect device is necessary only once, since the various desired settings are stored by the device and can be called up directly.
• the number of possible default settings is basically arbitrary and can be, for example, about 100.
• control unit This may be, for example, a control board, as they are available in digital amplifiers.
• the servomotors are connected, which are set in motion by the control unit.
• the control unit can be used to prevent Interference of a metal housing, eg. Aluminum housing to be surrounded.
• the device further comprises a control unit for storing and retrieving the settings of the servomotors, wherein the control unit is connected to the control unit.
• the control unit may be a circuit board as used in digital amplifiers. The musician calls on the control unit, if he wants to set a specific sound effect, a specific actuator setting, which is passed to the control unit, which in turn sets the actuator in lo movement and adjusts the potentiometer via the shaft between actuator and potentiometer.
• the control unit also requires a memory for storing the various actuator settings and controls for the user.
• the analogue devices are in particular typical i5 musical effects devices, as often used by guitarists or bassists.
• analog tube amplifiers and other devices with a potentiometer can be connected to the device, such as light effect devices.
• the analog devices are typically external. It can accordingly be commercially available analogue devices,
• the analog effect devices are typically those effectors that are commonly used by musicians and that alter an audio signal in different ways.
• distorting effect devices level-oriented effect devices, effect devices which cause changes in the 0 frequency range, time-oriented effect devices or delay-time-oriented effect devices are known.
• the effect devices may be selected from the group consisting of: distortion, compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, Chopper, Rectifier, Enhancer, Exciter, Pitch shifter, Harmonizer, Ring modulator, Talkbox, Vibrato, Leslie Cabinet, Auto-Tune, Intonator, Equalizer, Wah-Wah, Time Shifter, Tremolo, Reverb, Delay , Echo Devices, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Scripter.
• the effect devices are floor effect devices, as they are often used by guitarists, since they are operated by the foot.
• the device has a special significance for the use of electric guitars or electric bass.
• the device according to the invention can also be used for other electrical and non-electrical musical instruments, for example acoustic guitars, wind instruments such as trumpet, trombone, saxophones (for example in jazz), Hammond organs, etc.
• the waves arranged between the potentiometers and the servo motors are expediently made flexible in order to simplify the connection of the external analog devices.
• the servomotors can be connected to the control unit via five-pin XLR cable.
• Corresponding cable connections also exist between the control unit and the control unit, wherein any suitable cables can be used.
• control unit control unit
• control unit and actuators may not be spatially separated from each other, so that it may be unnecessary to provide cables between the various subunits.
• the entire device is housed in a housing, but this need not necessarily be the case.
• the device may also have a MIDI control unit which transmits MIDI signals and is connected to the control unit via MIDI cable.
• MIDI devices e.g., so-called MIDI controllers
• Such MIDI devices are readily available commercially. In this way, with the help of the device according to the invention can not MIDI-capable analog
• Devices are indirectly controlled via MIDI. It makes sense that the device also has a visual display device for displaying the respectively selected sound effect.
• a display device can be integrated in particular in the control unit, for example as an LED display.
• the display device can display various program locations (1, 2, 3, ...) and / or certain settings (eg Clean, Crunch, Drive, etc.).
• the device according to the invention is also outstandingly suitable for integration in a so-called "pedal board.”
• a pedal board a plurality of musical effect devices are arranged side by side on a support, so that they can be actuated by the musician's foot also be arranged on the support of the pedal board, wherein expediently the control unit and the control unit are integrated in a compact device.
• the servomotors are usefully arranged in the vicinity of the respective effect devices on the support, so that the flexible waves can be kept short Connection of the servomotors to the control unit of the device is effected simply by means of cables
• the operation of the device (eg for the selection of specific programs) can likewise be effected with the foot via corresponding foot switches integrated into the device or connected thereto.
• FIG 1 shows the structure of the invention
• a control unit 1 is connected via cable 8 to a control unit 2 and to an additional MIDI control unit 3.
• the control unit 1 is also connected via cables 8 with corresponding servomotors 4, which can adjust the potentiometers of the effect devices 5 and the tube amplifier 6 via flexible shafts 7.
• the control unit 2 forwards the corresponding information to the control unit 1, which causes a movement of the corresponding control motor 4.
• the Movement of the servo motor 4 in turn is transmitted via the shaft 7 directly to the potentiometer of the corresponding effect device 5 or the tube amplifier 6, that is, the setting of the servomotor 4 correlates directly with the representation of the potentiometer on the corresponding analog device 5, 6.
• FIG 1 all components of the device are shown separately, it is of course possible to provide all the components in a housing, so that in general only the previously existing effect devices 5 and the tube amplifier 6 are to be connected to the device.

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