US3735013A - System for producing an aperiodic vibrato signal - Google Patents

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US3735013A
US3735013A US00182068A US3735013DA US3735013A US 3735013 A US3735013 A US 3735013A US 00182068 A US00182068 A US 00182068A US 3735013D A US3735013D A US 3735013DA US 3735013 A US3735013 A US 3735013A
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  • ..G10h 1/02 dissonant signals are applied to a control input of each [58] Fleld of Search ..84/l.24, 1.25, DIG, 4, tone generator via a gate circuit a divider chain and a 84/D1G. 10, DIG. 11, 1.01, 1.03; 331/106, low pass filten 4 Claims, 2 Drawing Figures SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING AN APERIODIC VIBRATO SIGNAL
  • the invention relates to a system for producing a vibrato signal which varies in frequency in a manner uncorrelated with time, in an electronic musical instrument provided with at least one tone generator.
  • At least one gate circuit having inputs which are connected, as the case may be, through a pulse shaper, to at least two sources of signals which preferably form a discord within an octave, a control input of each tone generator being coupled to an input of one of the gate circuits via at least one divider-by-two chain.
  • a signal which consists of pulses of continuously varying width, which are spaced by intervals which differ from one another in a manner such that the mean pulse duration is one half of the mean period.
  • the combination of the signals applied to the gate circuit is chosen so that the mean period of the signal at the output of the last divid er-by-two chain or at the outputs of the last divider-bytwo chains correspond to the period of the signals usually employed for the vibrato.
  • each last divider-by-two chain is followed by a low-pass filter having a cut-off frequency of a value between one and four times the reciprocal of the mean period of the signal at the output of the last divider-bytwo chain, there will appear at the output of this filter, a low-frequency signal which has the nature of band noise.
  • the frequency of this generator can be varied statistically about its mean value, so that the sound from this generator will assume the nature of a wind instrument, such as a flute, an organ-pipe, etc.
  • each of the signals applied to a gate circuit consists of one of the tone signals produced in the instrument.
  • a particularly advantageous embodiment of a system according to the invention includes a gate circuit which is connected to the control inputs of all the tone generators via each divider-by-two chain and via the lowpass filter, if provided.
  • control input of a tone generator is used in this specification to mean an input to which the application of a signal of varying magnitude results in a frequency variation of the tone generator. This includes, for example, that part of the supply circuit of which the output voltage feeds the generators.
  • the output voltage may be varied by means of the signal from the gate circuit, so that the frequencies of the generators vary.
  • FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a system according to the invention using four gate circuits
  • FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of a system using one gate circuit.
  • l2 tone generators G G are each connected to a divider-by-two chain D D in each of which chains the frequency of the tone of the associated generator is divided by a factor of 2, so that at the outputs of these divider chains, the lower octave tones are available.
  • the system includes four gate circuits P R, which each have three inputs which each are connected to an output of one of the divider chains D D if required, i.e. if the signals at the output of the divider are not sufficiently pulseshaped, through a pulse shaper I, I, respectively.
  • divider chains D D four groups are formed each consisting of three divider Chains b 2 3; 4, 5 6; 1 8, 9; 10 11 12) whereby the tones at the respective outputs of these divider chains form dissonant intervals of a minor second, so that the gate circuit P is connected to the divider chains D D and D the gate circuit P is connected to the divider chains D D and D etc.
  • the outputs of the gate circuits P P are each connected to a second divider chain B B, which each comprise at least one divider-by-two stage, with the result that at the output of each of these divider chains B B, a pulsatory voltage appears, the mean period of which, corresponds to the period of a signal usually employed for producing a vibrato.
  • each of the divider chains B B is connected to a low-pass filter F F respectively, having a cut-off frequency which is between one and four times the reciprocal of the mean period of the signal at the output of the respective divider chain B B
  • the pulsatory signal would cause the generator frequency at the output of the respective divider chain B B to be aperiodically and abruptly shifted, from the minimum frequency to the maximum frequency, whereas now the integrating nature of the low-pass filter F F causes the frequency to vary more gradually.
  • each filter F F is, respectively applied to the control input of one of the four sets of three generators G G and G G G and G respectively, so that the frequency of these generators varies in a manner uncorrelated with time.
  • the outputs of the low-pass filters F F need not necessarily be connected each to the associated set of generators G,, G and G G G and G but may alternatively be connected to any other set of three generators.
  • a different number of gate circuits may be used which each have at least two inputs, provided that each generator is connected to an output of a filter.
  • FIG. 2 shows a particularly advantageous circuit arrangement in which only one gate circuit P is used which has 12 inputs which each are connected to one of the outputs of one of the 12 divider chains D D
  • the output of the gate circuit P here also is connected to a divider chain B the output of which is connected to a low-pass filter F.
  • the output of the low-pass filter F is connected to the control inputs of all twelve generators G G
  • This circuit arrangement provides highly satisfactory results if the frequencies of the signals applied to the gate circuits lie between 1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz, and if the divider stages B 3., again divide these frequencies by a factor of, for example, 16.
  • the cut-off frequency of each of the low-pass filters F E has been chosen to be about 15 Hz.
  • the output of the low-pass filter F must be connected to the control input of this one generator only.
  • the number of signals applied to the gate circuit, the frequency range from which these signals are taken, and the number of divider-by-two chains at the output of each gate circuit, together determine the mean period, the pitch range, and the repetition rate of the vibrato signal.
  • a system for producing a vibrato signal which varies in frequency in a manner uncorrelated with time in an electronic musical instrument comprising:
  • a divider stage connected to said gate circuit at an output thereof;
  • a low pass filter connected between the divider stage and each control input of said tone generators; and divider chains connected between said tone generators and said pulse shapers.
  • the low pass filter has a cut-off frequency lying between approximately one and four times a reciprocal of a mean period of a signal appearing at an output of the divider stage.

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