US 10,770,052 B2 · Analog recall synthesizer having patch and knob recall

Abstract

A sound generating analog synthesizer that is comprised of potentiometers, a switch or switches and a set of patch jacks has a control system that can be operated in three modes, a manual mode, an automatic mode, and a guided mode; wherein manual mode allows potentiometer and switch positions as well as patch cable connections to be set by hand; wherein automatic mode, automatically sets patch connections as on or off, as well as set potentiometer positions and switch states with electromechanical or electrical devices; and wherein the guided mode provides at least one visual information on how to change the potentiometer positions, switch states, and patch jack connections such that a previously obtained sound can be reproduced.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A sound generating analog synthesizer that is comprised of at least one potentiometer, at least one switch, and at least one patch jack;

and comprising a control system that can be operated in three modes, a manual mode, an automatic mode, and a guided mode;
wherein the manual mode allows said at least one potentiometer, said at least one switch position, and said at least one patch cable connection to be set by hand;
wherein the automatic mode automatically sets patch connections as on or off and sets potentiometer positions and switch states with electromechanical or electrical devices to reach such positions;
and wherein the guided mode provides at least one visual information on how to change the potentiometer positions, switch states, and/or patch jack connections such that a previously obtained sound can be reproduced.

1 more element

A method of generating a predetermined sound on an analog synthesizer comprising:

storing a sound on an analog synthesizer, said analog synthesizer comprising a controller electronically connected to rotate at least one knob, actuate at least one switch, and connect at least one patch connection;
said knob comprising a drive system, a shaft position sensor, and a potentiometer;
wherein said controller rotates said at least one knob by generating instructions to said drive system;
said at least one switch comprising an electronic connection to said controller to turn on or off said switch upon receiving instructions from said controller;
and
said at least one patch connection, comprising at least one patch connection wherein said at least one patch connection controls connection between at least one input of said patch and at least one output of said patch;
wherein storing said sound comprises the positions of the potentiometer, at least one switch, and at least one set of patches;
modifying at least one of the knob, switches, or patches and returning to the stored sound by electronically modifying the at least one knob, switches, or patches to correspond to the positions of the potentiometer, at least one switch, and the at least one set of patches.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/556,331Filed 30 Aug 2019 · continuation

Priority

12 May 2017

Published

US 2019/0385580 A119 Dec 2019

Granted

8 Sep 2020

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G10H 5/002
Instruments in which the tones are generated by means of electronic generators: instruments using voltage controlled oscillators and amplifiers or…
G10H 1/0558
By switches with variable impedance elements: using variable resistors
G10H 7/02
Instruments in which the tones are synthesised from a data store, e.g. computer organs: in which amplitudes at successive sample points of a tone…
G10H 7/10
By calculating functions or polynomial approximations to evaluate amplitudes at successive sample points of a tone waveform: using coefficients or…

Family

Application62/505,534Us provisional application · filed 12 May 2017

Application15/979,127Parent of this continuation · filed 14 May 2018

US 2019/0385580 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Dec 2019

US 10,418,013 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2018/0330708 A1Published application

US 10,770,052 B2This patent

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Analog recall synthesizer having patch and knob recall

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Analog recall synthesizer having patch and knob recall

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Abstract

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