CSR offers QSound's MIDI synthesiser in its MusiCore1 audio processor

CSR and QSound Labs Inc. have announced that CSR's MusiCore1 is now being offered with mQSynthT, a powerful wavetable MIDI synthesiser from QSound. CSR's MusiCore1 is the world's first fully featured single-chip stereo audio processor with Bluetooth for mobile phones. QSound's mQSynth provides MusiCore1 with the capability to support a complete spectrum of audio features including polyphonic ringtones, multi-track game audio and user interface sounds.

CSR's MusiCore1 technology presents handset makers with the first practical audio processor architecture for phone designs, saving 75 percent of the cost, and over 36mm2 of space of adding a separate audio processor. Handset makers using CSR's MusiCore1 can, for the first time, have stereo audio along with fully featured Bluetooth on a single chip.

QSound's mQSynth is a wavetable MIDI synthesiser that supports polyphonic ringtone files, game music and interactive real-time sound events using digital wavetable instruments. mQSynth will also support formats including SMF, SP-MIDI, SMAF, mXMF and JSR135.

MusiCore1 can support decoding of all mainstream music file formats including MP3, AAC, WMA and SBC. The efficiency of CSR's mature DSP architecture contributes to MusiCore1's ability to provide a phone with 100 hours of music playback. In addition, MusiCore1 enables sophisticated voice processing in handsets, allowing users to comfortably make calls in noisy environments.

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