Class Notes

Basic concepts of digital audio

Basic facts in sound and music (click on "Sound and Hearing")

Acoustic power levels (Roads, pg. 39).

dB measurements explained

Fletcher-Munson Curves of equal loudness (Moore, pg. 21)

Aliasing (Moore, pg. 46)

Dynamic range of digital systems

The Planet CCRMA site at Stanford

Simple sound generation

Wavetable generation

The Csound Tutorial used in class (see references page for others)

A useful page on subtractive synthesis

Demonstrations (with graphics and sound) of digital filters

The basics of digital filters

Useful stuff on MIDI, including how to read a MIDI implementation chart

The Standard Midi File specification (not official, but largely correct)

The music theory tutorial we used in class

The math of waveguide theory

A review of perceptual encoding compression techniques

An Introduction to MP3 compression

An introduction to room acoustics modeling

The Rosegarden home page