Course Description:

Computational acoustic modeling for digital audio effects and sound synthesis

Topics:

• sampled traveling waves
• acoustic simulation using delay lines, digital filters, and nonlinear elements
• comb filters, allpass filters, and artificial reverberation
• delay-line interpolation and sampling-rate conversion
• phasing, flanging, and chorus effects
• computational models of selected musical instruments:
  • plucked, struck (piano), and bowed strings
  • woodwinds (clarinet)
  • flute and organ pipes
  • brasses

Prerequisite: Music 320 (introductory audio signal processing) or equivalent, and Physics 21 (mechanics) or equivalent.

Units: 3-4

Course Materials:

• Weekly Schedule (topics, lecture overheads, readers, assignments, and exam info)
• Detailed Administrative Information
• Reading:
  • Text
  • Optional Supplementary Handouts
  • Recommended Supplementary Reading
• Sound Examples
• Related Sites and Sound Examples on the Web
• Global JOS Index