Acoustic Effect Assignment Control for Tone Color Parts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for assigning acoustic effects to musical tone signals are limited, often wasting resources by applying the same effects to different tone color parts and requiring users to manage complex setting information, which can lead to undesirable sound outcomes.
Innovation Solution
An acoustic-effect assignment controlling apparatus with multiple acoustic-effect adding units that independently add effects to each tone color part based on tone color information, featuring a judging and assigning unit that optimizes the assignment of effects to minimize resource wastage and ensure desired sounds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user manually assigns insertion effects to performance parts, then the user can control which effects are applied, but the user must understand complex setting information about effect algorithms
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages effect assignments by detecting when tone color information changes and autonomously reassigning effects to appropriate performance parts, eliminating the need for users to manually manage complex effect algorithm settings while still achieving desired sound outcomes
2Ease of operation
If the system automatically searches for and assigns insertion effects to performance parts, then the user does not need to manage setting information, but the same effect algorithm may be assigned to different insertion effects uselessly consuming limited resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors tone color information changes and uses this feedback to intelligently reassign effects, detecting when effects can be shared across performance parts and preventing wasteful duplication of effect algorithms while maintaining automatic assignment benefits
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables one effect algorithm to serve multiple performance parts simultaneously by detecting when the same effect is appropriate for different tone color parts, allowing limited effect resources to be used more efficiently across the entire system
3Adaptability or versatility
If the number of insertion effects to be assigned is limited, then the system has manageable resources, but assigning effects without attention to the limit simply squanders the limited insertion effects
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors the limited effect resources and tone color changes, using feedback to make intelligent assignment decisions that prevent squandering of effects while maximizing the use of available insertion effects across performance parts
Data Source
AI summary
When it is determined that Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect is found, CPU 13 assigns the Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect to a tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed, and when it is determined that Insertion Effect Block 20n for adding the same acoustic effect is not found, CPU 13 sets acoustic-effect information included in tone color information set to the tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed, thereby assigning the Insertion Effect Block 20n to the tone color part PTs whose tone color information has been changed.