Envelope-controlled dynamic layering of audio signal processing and synthesis for music applications

摘要

Parallel operations on the amplitude envelope of a single-channel or multiple-channel electronic instrument or vocal signal may be used to control rich layered audio signal processing and/or audio synthesis environments. The controllable layered audio signal processing and audio synthesis environments may comprise dedicated or shared processor and synthesis elements, respectively, though use of pre-mixing and merging operations. Detection operations performed on the envelope of an applied audio signal may include level detection operations, rate sign (i.e., level increasing versus decreasing) detection operations, and rate magnitude detection operations. These operations may control rich layered audio signal processing environments and/or audio synthesis environments directly, while other embodiments may incorporate the use of state machines in the control chain. The applied audio signal may be pre-processed by signal processing before application to envelope detection, and combinations of such envelopes may be used. Hysteretic effects may be invoked across increasing and decreasing variation in envelope parameters.