MULTI-TONE REAL TIME SOUND SYNTHESIZER

摘要

A real-time multi-tone sound synthesizer having improved operating characteristics. The synthesizer implements additive musical synthesis on a gate array (1001) which operates through inputs received from a host computer (1009) or other device. The gate array (1001) includes a plurality of oscillators (1102) which share resources such as memory (1014). The gate array (1001) may be arranged to operate in conjunction with a plurality of other gate arrays (1002) all under common control of a host computer (1009) wherein one gate array in the system operates as the "master" gate array controlling multiplexing of synthesized outputs.