A method of activating electrodes in a multichannel electrode array usingchannel specific sampling sequences is presented. A channel specific samplingsequence is defined for each electrode, the sequence having a particularduration, amplitude, and number of pulses. A weighting factor is applied tothe channel specific sampling sequence. Each electrode in the multichannelelectrode array is then simultaneously activated using sign-correlated pulses,the sign-correlated pulses based on parameters of spatial channel interaction,non-linear compression, and each electrode's weighted channel specificsampling sequence.
