Patent ID: 7777123

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for humanizing a music sequence (S), the music sequence (S) comprising a multitude of sounds (s 1 , . . . , s n ) occurring on times (t 1 , . . . , t n ), the method comprising the steps of, by hardware in combination with software: generating, for each time (t i ) a random offset (o i ), adding the random offset (o i ) to the time (t i ) in order to obtain a modified time (t i +o i ); and outputting a humanized music sequence (S′) wherein each sound (s i ) occurs on the modified time (t i +o i ), characterized in that the power spectral density of the sequence of random offsets has the form: 1 f α wherein f is a frequency, α is a shape parameter of the spectrum and 0<α<2.