Digital Sound Processing

5.1 Types of Electronic Music Equipment
•  Different types of equipment sorted by manufacturer.
• MIDI Controllers (a range of common and unusual MIDI control devices).
• Links to Digital Audio devices.
• Summary of digital recording devices., and links to Video Recording media.
• Development of the Compact Disc (CD). How CDs work(1) and (2).
• CD-R.
• DAT links.
 
5.2 Methods of Digital Sound Generation
• Beginner's Synthesiser overview, including different types of synthesis.
• History and development of sound synthesis.
• On-line help with MIDI and recording.
• Synthesis methods - an overview with links.
• Tutorial on synthesis and MIDI.
• Introduction to additive synthesis(1) and (2).
• Subtractive synthesis (overview) and a more detailed tutorial.
• Frequency Modulation (FM) (overview) and a more detailed tutorial.
• Physical Modelling (overview) and a more detailed tutorial.
• Digital Synthesis Tutorial - lots of technical detail from a telecommunications perspective.
• Wavetable synthesis tutorial.
• C++ code for a sinewave oscilator.

 
5.3 Methods of Digital Sound Processing

•  A guide to using effects and delay/reverb.
• The Effects Database - user reviews and comments from all manufacturers.
• A brief description of different effects.
• Detailed Tutorials (including diagrams and sound examples) on delay, reverb, flanging, chorus, phasing, Ring Modulation.
• Harmony Central's links on audio programming.

Includes C++ code for delay, reverb, variable delay for chorus & flanging.
 
• FFT description and source code.
 
• DSP general questions & resources.
• Links for Programmers of DSP for music.
• The Music-DSP discussion list & resources.
 
5.4 Digital sound generation techniques
• Amplitude Modulation
• Circuit for ADSR generator.
• Frequency modulation
• Detailed tutorial on the Fourier Series and the Fourier Transform.
• Introduction to sampling, and a sampling tutorial (from Kurzweil).
 
5.5 Digital sound processing techniques
• Digital Sound Effects Processing.
• Introduction to Digital Filters (an on-line book chapter).
• The on-line Digital Filter Primer.
• Digital Filters and the z-transform.
• Complex Numbers: Introduction & Tutorial
• 'Dr Math' describes the Unit Circle!
• More on Filter Design.
• Audio Programming for filters and effects.

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