Electronic sound generator increasing range of operation - generates sounds corresp. to data on scanned bar code or reproduces music

摘要

The device includes a scanner (7,107,M2) for scanning a bar code (BC). The bar code (BC) represents coded characters. The scanner (7,107,M2) provides several corresponding codes. Noise or music attributes are allocated parameters of control data for the noise or music synthesis. Each parameter is allocated a predetermined value corresponding to the scanned data. A memory (23,25,123,M1) stores data groups controlled by noise attributes. Each group includes at least one data element to control an attribute of the desired sound. A selector (17,117,MC), connected to the memory (23,25,123,M1) selects sound attributes and selects at least one data element of at least one group in dependence on the scanner output. A sound generator (31,131,M4), produces a sound with at least one attribute corresponding to the bar code (BC). ADVANTAGE - Resulting sound has random and unexpected qualities and no input is needed by user to change output.