Electric reverberation apparatus

US4181820A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Franz Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH · DE

Inventors

• Barry Blesser · Belmont, US
• Karl O. Bader · Lahr (Eifel), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 1978
• Grant date: Jan 1, 1980
• Expiry date: Apr 21, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10K15/12
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An electronic reverberation apparatus, for producing artificial reverberation on a purely electronic basis with a digital computer, comprises a plurality of loops having different delay times and adapted to form sound repetitions of diminishing intensity. Some of the loops have short delay times and have an all-pass characteristic. Others of the loops have long delay times. The loops are provided with tappings each of which has a particular delay time associated with it. The delay times of the tappings themselves and the sums, differences and quotients of these delay times are in a non-harmonic relationship to one another. Each tapping feeds a corresponding damping element whereby the output from each successive tapping is reduced such that the reduction in energy corresponds to an exponential function, and a delayed and repeated combination of unreverberated input signals is fed to an output from the loop circuit. For naturalness the output of each reverberation delay unit is randomly damped.