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- Introduced Synthesis Toolkit (STK) for students to easily synthesize their own virtual instruments
- A lab that introduces the concepts and paradigms in the programming platform STK.
- A lab that introduces lattice ladder filters in the realm of digital reverb.
- A lab that implements two landmark models of reverberation in the digital effects community. Gives students
a solid understanding of the underlying physics behind reverb as well as how it is approximated in the
digital/virtual world.
- Lab that allows a student to implement time-varying effects. Teaches students the fundamentals behind
such effects, namely the Doppler effect, and giving students opportunities for implementing their own Leslie
speaker and flanger, both of which have had a significant impact on music in the last 50 years.
- A lab that introduces the basic virtual/physical model of a guitar. Students get to implement their own
electric guitar using the STK. Furthermore, the lab steps students through how overdrive and
distortion/feedback occurs in both the physical and the virtual worlds.
- Acoustic Guitar lab that expands on the Electric Guitar lab by introducing two planes of vibration
for a string and a different excitation signal, a measured body response of an actual acoustic guitar.
- A lab that implements a piano. The significant difference between this lab and the acoustic guitar lab is
the introduction and application of dispersion.
- Lectures Supporting Theory Portions of New Labs Created
- Lecture explaining Delay Line interpolation created to further accomodate time-varying effects lab.
- Lecture discussing digital reverb created.
- Delay line and Variable Delay Line Effects lectures created to explain theory behind reverb and time-varying effects labs.
- Lectures discussing the Wave Equation and how it has been digitized to a delay-line-loop has been created.
- Body Factoring lecture discussing impulse response decomposition and re-implementation created.
- Commuted Synthesis lecture supporting acoustic guitar lab created.
- Introduced labs used to analyze data and design parameters for models using Matlab/Octave
- Matlab was used to compute decay times and fitting filters for implementing such decays for implementing
components in a virtual guitar and a virtual reverberator.
- Spectral Analysis was also introduced and well explored in labs analyzing body-factoring and substitution
in the acoustic guitar lab.
- Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol approved for study in progress with partnering high school
(Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA)
- Integration into curriculum already begun for high school Physics Honors.
- Experiment with control group to occur beginning of April
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