MUSICAL SOUND SIGNAL GENERATOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance an access speed to a waveform memory, and to increase the number of sound channels. SOLUTION: A quickly page-accessible waveform memory 9 is page-classified by 8 address units of page size p, a sample stored in the final address of each page is stored overlappingly in a top address of the next page. An address counter 11 sums up a readout rate of each sound channel, to generate a sample address, a memory address generating part 12 adds an integer part SAi of the sample address and Int[SAi/(p-1)], to generate an memory address MA. The waveform memory is page-accessed using the memory address MA, two samples are read out thereby from the MA and MA+1, the readout two samples are interpolated based on a fraction SAf of the sample address, the interpolation-finished waveform of each sound channel is summed up to generate a musical sound signal of a plurality of sound channels in every sampling period. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT