Methods and apparatuses according the present embodiments derive the sound of a Hammond tonewheel organ from the equal-tempered tuning of its tonewheels and drawbar registration design, as well as its vibrato/chorus processing and pickup distortion. In embodiments, as a reverberation effect, the modal processor simulates a room response as the sum of resonant filter responses, providing precise, independent and interactive control over the frequency, damping, and complex amplitude of each mode. As an effects processor, the modal processor provides pitch shifting and distortion by simple manipulations of the mode output sinusoids.

Methods and apparatuses according the present embodiments derive the sound of a Hammond tonewheel organ from the equal-tempered tuning of its tonewheels and drawbar registration design, as well as its vibrato/chorus processing and pickup distortion. In embodiments, as a reverberation effect, the modal processor simulates a room response as the sum of resonant filter responses, providing precise, independent and interactive control over the frequency, damping, and complex amplitude of each mode. As an effects processor, the modal processor provides pitch shifting and distortion by simple manipulations of the mode output sinusoids.

An effect unit based on dynamic circuit modeling method that can change effect wirelessly, comprises a sound effect algorithm database, a mobile APP client and a sound effect device. The mobile APP client checks updates of the sound effect algorithm database, downloads new sound effect algorithms to the local device and displays the same in the form of a list, and the sound effect algorithms are downloaded to the sound effect device in a wireless communication mode by opening the wireless communication function of the mobile APP client; analog signals sent by an electrophone are converted into digital signals by ADC, the digital signals are processed by a DSP sound effect algorithm in the sound effect device, then the digital signals are converted into analog signals by DAC, and the analog signals are output by sound effect output equipment.

An effect unit based on dynamic circuit modeling method that can change effect wirelessly, comprises a sound effect algorithm database, a mobile APP client and a sound effect device. The mobile APP client checks updates of the sound effect algorithm database, downloads new sound effect algorithms to the local device and displays the same in the form of a list, and the sound effect algorithms are downloaded to the sound effect device in a wireless communication mode by opening the wireless communication function of the mobile APP client; analog signals sent by an electrophone are converted into digital signals by ADC, the digital signals are processed by a DSP sound effect algorithm in the sound effect device, then the digital signals are converted into analog signals by DAC, and the analog signals are output by sound effect output equipment.

An electronic instrument comprising an elongated member, comprising a plurality of detectors aligned in the elongated member, each detector for detecting a finger-sized object in the vicinity thereof and for providing a corresponding signal; a processing unit operatively connected to the plurality of detectors, the processing unit for receiving the signals from the plurality of detectors and for generating a signal indicative of a sound to generate and a sound generating unit operatively connected to the processing unit and wherein the processing unit is located inside the elongated member.

An electronic instrument comprising an elongated member, comprising a plurality of detectors aligned in the elongated member, each detector for detecting a finger-sized object in the vicinity thereof and for providing a corresponding signal; a processing unit operatively connected to the plurality of detectors, the processing unit for receiving the signals from the plurality of detectors and for generating a signal indicative of a sound to generate and a sound generating unit operatively connected to the processing unit and wherein the processing unit is located inside the elongated member.

According to one implementation, a sonic field sound system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a sound modulation software code. The sound system further includes an acoustic object coupled to an input of the computing platform via a capacitance sensing unit. The acoustic object has one or more input interface(s) coupled to an output of the computing platform, and also has a resonant cavity having at least one outlet. The hardware processor is configured to execute the sound modulation software code to generate a waveform for driving the one or more input interface(s) of the acoustic object via the output of the computing platform to produce a sound.

An effect unit based on dynamic circuit modeling method that can change effect wirelessly, comprises a sound effect algorithm database, a mobile APP client and a sound effect device. The mobile APP client checks updates of the sound effect algorithm database, downloads new sound effect algorithms to the local device and displays the same in the form of a list, and the sound effect algorithms are downloaded to the sound effect device in a wireless communication mode by opening the wireless communication function of the mobile APP client; analog signals sent by an electrophone are converted into digital signals by ADC, the digital signals are processed by a DSP sound effect algorithm in the sound effect device, then the digital signals are converted into analog signals by DAC, and the analog signals are output by sound effect output equipment.

An effect unit based on dynamic circuit modeling method that can change effect wirelessly, comprises a sound effect algorithm database, a mobile APP client and a sound effect device. The mobile APP client checks updates of the sound effect algorithm database, downloads new sound effect algorithms to the local device and displays the same in the form of a list, and the sound effect algorithms are downloaded to the sound effect device in a wireless communication mode by opening the wireless communication function of the mobile APP client; analog signals sent by an electrophone are converted into digital signals by ADC, the digital signals are processed by a DSP sound effect algorithm in the sound effect device, then the digital signals are converted into analog signals by DAC, and the analog signals are output by sound effect output equipment.

A musical sound processing apparatus includes: a first generation part configured to generate a plurality of first signals in which at least one of a frequency characteristic and a time response of each of a plurality of processing unit signals obtained from a musical sound signal is modified; and a second generation part configured to generate a plurality of second signals in which at least one of a frequency characteristic and a time response of a noise signal associated with one or more of the plurality of processing unit signals is replaced with at least one of a frequency characteristic and a time response of the corresponding first signal.