Music 420 Supplementary Handouts

• Music 420 Citations
• Digital Waveguide Modeling of Musical Instruments
• Tonehole Modeling
• The Wave Digital Tonehole
• Horn Modeling:   (.ps.gz)  (.pdf)
• Truncated Infinite Impulse Response (TIIR) Filters (used in horn modeling):   (.ps.gz)  (.pdf)
• Designing allpass filters for stiff string simulation (.pdf)
• Optimal FIR Interpolation Filter Design :   (.ps.gz)  (.pdf)
• Virtual Analog
• Synthesis of Classical Analog Waveforms:   (.ps.gz)  (.pdf)
• Digitization of the Moog VCF:   (.ps.gz)  (.pdf)
• PhD Theses
  • Maarten van Walstijn, Discrete-Time Modelling of Brass and Reed woodwind Instruments with Application to Musical Sound Synthesis, Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh, June 2002.
  • Stefan Bilbao, Wave and Scattering Methods for the Numerical Integration of Partial Differential Equations, Ph.D. thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University (CCRMA), June 2001.
  • David P. Berners, Acoustics and Signal Processing Techniques for Physical Modeling of Brass Instruments, Ph.D. thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University (CCRMA), June 1999.
• Introduction to Digital Filters