Patent ID: 8145496

Claim:
A programmed system for creating, storing and triggering combinations of effects to be used on a digital audio stream, comprising: a host sequencer responsive to a master system clock; slice selecting means for selecting at least one sample from the audio stream and gesture defining means for defining a stutter edit gesture to be applied to said at least one sample over a specified gesture length, with each effect incorporated in said gesture having at least one respective parameter which varies over the gesture length in accordance with a respective user-defined curve, wherein said stutter edit gesture has a user determined start time and end time and includes a successive retriggerings of said one or more samples, with each retriggering having not only a respective user defined length but also a user defined amplitude envelope, the length and amplitude envelope of successive said retriggerings are independently varied within each said stutter edit gesture in accordance with respective user defined curves to thereby form a sequence of time varying staccato effects; and said stutter edit gesture is applied to the selected samples by the host sequencer under the control of said master system clock.