Music 120

Introduction to Audio/Multimedia Application Programming

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Lecture 1 (9/25/06): Introduction

Topics

• Course overview
• Application demos
• Survey

Lecture 2 (10/2/06): Audio Programming (1)

Topics

• Digital audio basics
• Overview of audio APIs
• Stk (and RtAudio)
• Optional: PortAudio and CoreAudio

Assignment 1 (due 10/18/06)

Lecture 3 (10/9/06): Audio Programming (2)

• Callback function
• Duplex mode

• Audio effect & DSP basics
• Stk effect/instrument classes

• Error handling

• Optional: FFTW

Lecture 4 (10/16/06): Plug-ins

• IDEs (Xcode)
• VST Plug-in
• Optional: Pd / Max/MSP extern programming

Lecture 5 (10/23/06): GUI (1) - Cocoa

• Cocoa overview
• OOP & Objective-C
• Xcode & Interface Builder
• StkX & GUI

Assignment 2 (due in three weeks)

Lecture 6 (10/30/06): GUI (2) - Qt

• Qt API
• Qt designer on Linux
• Stk & Qt

Lecture 7 (Friday, 11/3/06): GUI Programming and MVC

• Event (NSEvent)
• View (NSView)
• Model, View, & Controller (MVC) model

Lecture 8 (11/13/06): Image and Graphics with Sound

• Review of Cocoa View programming: NSView
• Images and OpenGL with Cocoa
• MVC

Final project proposal due

Lecture 9 (Friday, 11/17/06): Network Communications

• Audio streaming over network:
  InetWvIn/InetWvOut classes (Stk)
• Open Sound Control (OSC)
• MIDI

Week 10 (12/?/06): Final Project Presentation

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