The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

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World Scientific, 2007 - Music - 331 pages
This is the first book to develop both the theory and the practice of synthesizing musical sounds using computers. Each chapter starts with a theoretical description of one technique or problem area and ends with a series of working examples (over 100 in all), covering a wide range of applications. A unifying approach is taken throughout; chapter two, for example, treats both sampling and wavetable synthesis as special cases of one underlying technique. Although the theory is presented quantitatively, the mathematics used goes no further than trigonometry and complex numbers. The examples and supported software ? along with a machine-readable version of the text ? are available on the web and maintained by a large online community.The Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music is valuable both as a textbook and as professional reading for electronic musicians and computer music researchers.
 

Contents

1 Sinusoids Amplitude and Frequency
1
2 Wavetables and Samplers
27
3 Audio and Control Computations
59
4 Automation and Voice Management
89
5 Modulation
119
6 Designer Spectra
149
7 Time Shifts and Delays
175
8 Filters
225
9 Fourier Analysis and Resynthesis
267
10 Classical Waveforms
301
Bibliography
323
Index
327
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