Patent ID: 7610200

Claim:
A system for controlling sound data, comprising: a host; a sound processor coupled to the host, the sound processor including a first control bit associated with a first voice and a second control bit associated with a second voice, the first and second control bits being writable by the host; and a first parameter block associated with the first voice, a second parameter block associated with the first voice, a third parameter block associated with the second voice, a fourth parameter block associated with second voice, wherein the first parameter block, the second parameter block, the third parameter block, and the fourth parameter block are stored in the same memory, the first and second parameter blocks comprising a first plurality of sound control parameters corresponding to the first voice, the third and fourth parameter blocks comprising blocks comprising a second plurality of sound control parameters corresponding to a the second voice, wherein the first and second voices correspond to a plurality of sounds that are played together, and the first control bit, independent of the second control bit, determining which of the first and second parameter blocks are read by the sound processor to generate the first voice, and the second control bit, independent of the first control bit, determining which of the third and fourth parameter blocks are read by the sound processor to generate the second voice.