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The audio programming book

This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by readers with varying levels of programming expertise, it not only provides the foundations for music and audio development but also tackles issues that sometimes remain mysterious even to experienced software designers. Exercises and copious examples (all cross-platform and based on free or open source software) make the book ideal for classroom use. Fifteen chapters and eight appendixes cover such topics as programming basics for C and C++ (with music-oriented examples), audio programming basics and more advanced topics, spectral audio programming; programming Csound opcodes, and algorithmic synthesis and music programming. Appendixes cover topics in compiling, audio and MIDI, computing, and math. An accompanying DVD provides an additional 40 chapters, covering musical and audio programs with micro-controllers, alternate MIDI controllers, video controllers, developing Apple Audio Unit plug-ins from Csound opcodes, and audio programming for the iPhone. The sections and chapters of the book are arranged progressively and topics can be followed from chapter to chapter and from section to section. At the same time, each section can stand alone as a self-contained unit. Readers will find The Audio Programming Book a trustworthy companion on their journey through making music and programming audio on modern computers
eBook, English, ©2011
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2011
1 online resource (xxiii, 889 pages) : illustrations
9780262289245, 9780262288606, 0262289245, 0262288605
831625447
An overview of the C language with some elements of C++ / Victor Lazzarini and Richard Boulanger
Programming in C / Richard Dobson
Audio programming in C / Richard Dobson
Working with audio streams / Gabriel Maldonado
Introduction to program design / John ffitch
Introduction to digital audio signals / Victor Lazzarini
Time-domain audio programming / Victor Lazzarini
Spectral audio programming basics : the DFT, the FFT, and convolution / Victor Lazzarini
The STFT and spectral processing / Victor Lazzarini
Programming the phase vocoder / Victor Lazzarini
Understanding an opcode in Csound / John ffitch
Spectral opcodes / Victor Lazzarini
A modular synthesizer simulation program / Eric Lyon
Using C to generate scores / John ffitch
Modeling orchestral composition / Steven Yi
Command-line tools reference / Jonathan Bailey
Debugging software with the GNU debugger / Jonathan Bailey
Soundfiles, soundfile formats, and libsndfile / Victor Lazzarini
An introduction to real-time audio IO with PortAudio / Victor Lazzarini
MIDI programming with PortMIDI / Victor Lazzarini
Computer architecture, structures, and languages / John ffitch
Glossary / John ffitch with Richard Dobson, Victor Lazzarini, and Richard Boulanger
An audio programmer's guide to mathematical expressions / John ffitch
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