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The computer music tutorial / Curtis Roads.

By: Roads, Curtis [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]Edition: Second edition.Description: xxviii, 1257 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262044912 (hardback).Subject(s): Computer music -- Instruction and study | Computer sound processing | Software synthesizers | Computer composition (Music)Additional physical formats: Online version:: Computer music tutorialDDC classification: 780.285
Contents:
I. Digital Audio. History of digital audio ; Basics of sound signals ; Theory of sampling / Curtis Roads with John M. Strawn ; Sample quantization, conversion, and audio formats -- II. Introduction to Sound Synthesis -- History of digital sound synthesis ; Wavetable-lookup synthesis ; Time-varying waveform synthesis ; Software synthesis -- III. Sound Synthesis. Sampling ; Additive synthesis ; Multiple wavetable synthesis ; Wave terrain synthesis ; Granular synthesis ; Subtractive synthesis ; Modulation I: RM, SSM, and AM ; Modulation II: FM, PM, PD, and GM ; Waveshaping synthesis ; Physical modeling synthesis ; Virtual analog ; Formant synthesis ; Pulsar synthesis ; Waveform segment synthesis ; Concatenative synthesis / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads ; Graphic sound synthesis ; Noise, chaotic, and stochastic synthesis -- IV. Mixing and signal processing. Sound mixing ; Dynamic range processing ; Digital filtering / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads ; Convolution / Curtis Roads with Bob L. T. Sturm ; Time delay effects ; Pitch-time changing ; Sound spatialization ; Reverberation -- V. Sound analysis. Pitch estimation ; Rhythm recognition and automatic transcription ; Introduction to spectrum analysis ; Spectrum analysis by Fourier methods ; Spectrum analysis by alternative methods ; Spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition / Bob L. T. Sturm -- VI. The Musician's interface. Musical input devices ; Interactive performance software ; Sequence editors ; Sound editors, DAWs, and audio middleware ; Spectrum editors ; Common music notation editors ; Unconventional score editors ; Instrument and patch editors ; Languages for sound synthesis ; Languages for composition ; Algorithmic composition -- VII. Interconnections. MIDI ; Open sound control / Curtis Roads and Matthew J. Wright.
Summary: "A comprehensive overall survey of the tools and techniques used in the field of computer music, aimed at beginners as well as intermediate and advanced users"-- Provided by publisher.
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General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.285 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00197678
General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.285 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00197681
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Expanded, updated, and fully revised-the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students.

Essential and state-of-the-art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads's step-by-step presentation orients musicians, engineers, scientists, and anyone else new to computer and electronic music.

The new edition continues to be the definitive tutorial on all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, and psychoacoustics, but the second edition also reflects the enormous growth of the field since the book's original publication in 1996. New chapters cover up-to-date topics like virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, and instrument and patch editors. Exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, the second edition adds hundreds of new figures and references to the original charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs in order to explain basic concepts and terms.

Features
New chapters- virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, instrument and patch editors, and an appendix on machine learning Two thousand references support the book's descriptions and point readers to further study Mathematical notation and program code examples used only when necessary Twenty-five years of classroom, seminar, and workshop use inform the pace and level of the material

Bibliography: (pages 1099-1232) and index.

I. Digital Audio. History of digital audio ; Basics of sound signals ; Theory of sampling / Curtis Roads with John M. Strawn ; Sample quantization, conversion, and audio formats -- II. Introduction to Sound Synthesis -- History of digital sound synthesis ; Wavetable-lookup synthesis ; Time-varying waveform synthesis ; Software synthesis -- III. Sound Synthesis. Sampling ; Additive synthesis ; Multiple wavetable synthesis ; Wave terrain synthesis ; Granular synthesis ; Subtractive synthesis ; Modulation I: RM, SSM, and AM ; Modulation II: FM, PM, PD, and GM ; Waveshaping synthesis ; Physical modeling synthesis ; Virtual analog ; Formant synthesis ; Pulsar synthesis ; Waveform segment synthesis ; Concatenative synthesis / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads ; Graphic sound synthesis ; Noise, chaotic, and stochastic synthesis -- IV. Mixing and signal processing. Sound mixing ; Dynamic range processing ; Digital filtering / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads ; Convolution / Curtis Roads with Bob L. T. Sturm ; Time delay effects ; Pitch-time changing ; Sound spatialization ; Reverberation -- V. Sound analysis. Pitch estimation ; Rhythm recognition and automatic transcription ; Introduction to spectrum analysis ; Spectrum analysis by Fourier methods ; Spectrum analysis by alternative methods ; Spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition / Bob L. T. Sturm -- VI. The Musician's interface. Musical input devices ; Interactive performance software ; Sequence editors ; Sound editors, DAWs, and audio middleware ; Spectrum editors ; Common music notation editors ; Unconventional score editors ; Instrument and patch editors ; Languages for sound synthesis ; Languages for composition ; Algorithmic composition -- VII. Interconnections. MIDI ; Open sound control / Curtis Roads and Matthew J. Wright.

"A comprehensive overall survey of the tools and techniques used in the field of computer music, aimed at beginners as well as intermediate and advanced users"-- Provided by publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Curtis Roads is Professor of Media Arts and Technology, with an affiliate appointment in Music, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Microsound and Composing Electronic Music- A New Aesthetic .

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