Patent ID: 7751913

Claim:
A method for reducing power consumption of a sound processor, comprising: providing a sound processor access to at least one register having a plurality of bits corresponding to sound operations capable of being performed by the sound processor, the sound processor being capable of processing multiple 2-D and 3-D voices; allowing a host processor to write a value to at least a portion of the plurality of bits in the at least one register during sound processing to selectively disable individual operations performed by the sound processor; and using the at least one register a to enable or disable any combination of sound processor operations including; effects performed on the voices, a DAC interface, 3-D voices in 2-D mode, a number of 3-D and 2-D voices processed, and which voices are to be processed; and further including using the said at least one register to disable effects performed on the voices including any combination of; cross-talk cancellation, reverb, master volume, low-frequency oscillators (LFO), and pitch envelopes.