| Date | Contents |
|---|---|
| Jan. 15 | Introduction, overview, goals, historical notes. |
| Jan. 20 | Intro to the tools. Intro to delay lines. Intro to STK and Pd. |
| Jan. 22 | Application example. |
| Jan. 27 | |
| Jan. 29 | Intro to delay lines and digital feedback. Introduction to waveguides. Assignment 1 due. Paper's choice. |
| Feb. 3 | Digital filters. Download some material here |
| Feb. 5 | The Karplus-Strong algorithm. |
| Feb. 10 | Presentation 1: Jaffe and Smith Karplus-Strong algorithm. Homework 2 due. Electric guitar simulation. |
| Feb. 12 | Project discussion in VCCM lab. Review of second order filters |
| Feb. 17 | SNOW. No classes. |
| Feb. 19 | Presentation 2: McIntyre, Schumacher and Woodhouse paper. More on tubes and strings. |
| Feb. 24 | Second order filters, resonant filters and source-filter synthesis. Modal synthesis. Cook chapter 4. |
| Feb. 26 | From modal synthesis to banded waveguides. Cook chapter 4. Homework 3 due. |
| Mar. 10 | Spectral analysis and synthesis. Cook chapter 5-6. |
| Mar. 12 | More on spectral analysis and synthesis. |
| Mar. 17 | Sound morphing. |
| Mar. 19 | Presentation 3: SMS. More on spectral modeling. In VCCM lab. |
| Mar. 24 | Particle models, FOF. |
| Mar. 26 | Presentation 4: Cook's PhiSM paper. |
| Mar. 31 | Woodwind instruments. |
| Apr. 2 | Presentation 5: woodwind instrument synthesis. |
| Apr. 7 | Physical models of the human voice. |
| Apr. 9 | Presentation 6: singing voice synthesis. Two pages project submission. |
| Apr. 14 | Struck instruments. Presentation 7: piano modeling synthesis. |
| Apr. 16 | Intro to reverberation |
| Apr. 21 | No class |
| Apr. 23 | Waveguide in 2 and 3 dimensions. Presentation 8: the waveguide mesh. In VCCM lab. |
| Apr. 28 | VCMC final presentations and Digitalis concert. |