• Laboratory 7: Percussion, Piano, and Instrument Synthesis

Week 7

• Homework: Percussion and Keyboard Instruments
• Reading: Rossing, chapters 13-14

Laboratory 7: Percussion, Piano, and Instrument Synthesis

• Listen and analyze McGill samples.
• Listen/record/analyze various real percussion instruments.
• Listen/record/analyze piano sounds. Look for partial stretching.
• Review impulsive vs. steady oscillatory regimes and their particular implications.
• Pitched vs. Unpitched: Implications for synthesis.
• Synthesis approaches for various instruments: STK examples.