Method and apparatus for producing an electronic representation of a musical sound using coerced harmonics
CA 2053545 C · Owner: Starkey, David T. · Inventors: Lee, J. Robert; Starkey, David T.
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A technique for digitally processing a counterpart of a musical sound first transforms a set of time-domain samples of the sound into frequency-domain counterparts and then gradually coerces the frequency-domain counterparts into integer multiples of a fundamental frequency of the sound.
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- Filed December 6, 1991 and granted October 22, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 6, 2011.
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