Digital Sound Processing

for Music & Multimedia

Andy Hunt & Ross Kirk

CHAPTER 10 Programming for Audio and Visual Synthesis

Chapter 10 covers programming for sound and image. The code examples are written in the University of York's MIDAS language. MIDAS is available for Silicon Graphics machines (download it from this page), and will soon be available for PCs (watch this space). On this page you can listen to the sound examples given in the book.

10.1 Programming at Audio Rate

Chapter 3 describes how sound is represented by numbers.

10.2 The Unit Generator concept

Description of Digital Synthesis in context.
Also see Chapter 1 (esp section 1.9).

10.3 Programming Libraries

Free computer source code can be downloaded from freecode.com

10.4 MIDAS

The MIDAS HOMEPAGE. Read about MIDAS and download it from here.
MIDAS UGPs available.
MIDAS C Programming Library.

10.5 Audio synthesis and signal processing examples

Audio Example	Description
Section 10.5.1	Simple oscillator
Section 10.5.2	Series of tones
Section 10.5.3	Looping sequencer
Section 10.5.4	Sequencer with additive synthesis
Section 10.5.5	Inharmonic shifting of partials
Section 10.5.6	Subtractive synthesis by filtering
Section 10.5.7	FM - four modulation settings
Section 10.5.8	FM - performed by mouse
Section 10.5.9	AM - operated by mouse

10.6 Programming for Audio-Visual Synthesis

Graphics sites on the web.
Audio & Graphics software for downloading.
Real-Time Graphics (an industry newsletter).

10.7 Summary

Multimedia Glossary (alphabetic).
Multimedia index (by category)and loads of links.
General reference about multimedia.
History of media arts.

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