Rockin’ Patent – “Method Of Synthesizing A Musical Sound”

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,018,121 Filed: 2 May 1975 In the name of: (The Board of Trustees of) Leland Stanford Junior University Title: Method Of Synthesizing A Musical Sound What’s claimed: “A method of synthesizing a musical sound composed of a plurality of component frequencies and characterized by a time-varying amplitude envelope having a time-varying attack portion, a substantially steady-state portion and a time-varying decay portion, the steps comprising, generating a signal ωc to define a carrier frequency in the audio range, generating a signal ωm to define a modulation frequency in the audio range, generating a signal I(t) to define a […]