Patent ID: 7356373

Claim:
A method for improving sound quality of synthesized tones produced on an audio producing component in an electronic device, the electronic device comprising: a first player; a first file storage for storing one or more data files so as to allow the first player to produce one or more tones for playing on the audio producing component, wherein the first player is capable of producing said tones based on said one or more data files in a real-time manner up to M-polyphony and wherein the tones so produced contain characteristics of a sound synthesizer, where M is a positive integer; a different second player; and a second file storage for storing one or more recording files so as to allow the second player to produce sounds on the audio producing component in a real-time manner, wherein the sounds produced by the second player based on one or more recording files contain characteristics of a recorded sound, said method comprising: converting at least one of said one or more data files for producing in a non real-time manner at least one converted file having a second player compatible format; and providing the converted file to the second player so as to produce sounds on the audio producing component in a real-time manner, wherein the sounds produced by the second player based on the converted file contain some characteristics of a sound synthesizer of N-polyphony, wherein N is a positive integer greater than M.