Abstract
Apparatus is disclosed whereby an electronic musical tone generator is controlled in response to a musical instrument using mechanically vibrated strings. A bank of digital note filters is associated with each string to find the closest true musical note frequency corresponding to the vibration frequency of the string. The filters operate by computing the autocorrelation function of the string's vibration waveshape and then performing a Fourier transform to obtain the identification of the closest true musical note. An efficient and simple implementation is disclosed for an analog-to-digital signal conversion, the computation of the autocorrelation, and the Fourier transform. Provision is made for introducing frequency changes corresponding to a pitch bend in the vibration frequencies of the string.
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