Patent ID: 7935879

Claim:
A computer-based method of audio generation and manipulation comprising the steps of: selecting one or more adjacent previously defined subintervals from one or more adjacent measures of a respective audio track of an audio stream to thereby define a micro edit time interval that is repeated in subsequent measures in accordance with a defined time signature; designating a number of micro events into which said micro edit time interval will be divided; setting a micro edit slope which determines how the distribution of the individual micro events is varied in time within the micro edit time interval; and creating an edited audio track with said designated number of micro events distributed in accordance with the same said designated micro edit slope for each subsequent occurrence of said micro edit time interval; setting a starting gap width for a first gap adjacent a first said micro events; setting an ending gap width for a last gap adjacent a last said micro event, said starting gap width being different than said ending gap width; and designating a gap slope for the width of intermediate gaps between said first gap and said last gap.