Patents Assigned to Franz Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
  • Patent number: 4181820
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignee: Franz Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Barry A. Blesser, Karl-Otto Bader