Syllabus

Lecture notes:

• 1 1/08/2004 Introduction
• 2 1/13/2004 Fundamentals of sound (part I)
• 3 1/15/2004 Fundamentals of sound (part II) + Sampling Theory
• 4 1/20/2004 Interfaces
• 5 1/22/2004 I/O
• 6 1/27/2004 Wrapped I/O
• 7 1/29/2004 Collision1, Latency1
• 8 2/05/2004 Collision1, Latency2
• 9 2/10/2004 Collision1, Balance/Panning
• 10 2/12/2004 Non-Sinusoids
• 11 2/17/2004 FM Synthesis 1
• 12 2/19/2004 Signal Detection 1
• 13 2/24/2004 Signal Detection 2
• 14 3/02/2004 FM2 (enveloping)
• 15 3/04/2004 Guest Lecture: David Thiel
• 16 3/09/2004 Drum, Guitar, Explosion
• 17 3/11/2004 Wavetable Synthesis
• 18 3/16/2004 Noise
• 19 3/18/2004 Subtractive Synthesis
• 20 3/23/2004 Spectral Filtering
• 21 3/25/2004 File Formats/Intro Physical Modeling
• 22 4/06/2004 Physical Modeling Springs and Strings
• 23 4/08/2004 3D Physical Modeling/Modal Synthesis
• 24 4/13/2004 Environmental Modeling
• 25 4/15/2004 3D Spatializaion/Wrapup

Assignments:

• 1 Parametric Sinewave (stdout)
• 2 Audio Sinewave Synth (using PABLIO)
• 3A due 2/05 Collision Synth
• 3B due 2/10 Collision Synth
• 3C due 2/17 (optional) Genetic algorithm
• 4 due 2/19 Mixer Part 1
• 5 due 3/09 FM Synth
• 5B due 3/11 (optional) Monophonic Sequencer
• 6 due 3/18 Wavetable Synthesizer
• 7 due 4/06 Subtractive Wind Synthesizer

Exams:

• Midterm: Thursday 2/26/04
• Final: 4:00 Tuesday 4/20/04 (estimated 1 hour, room scheduled for 3)

PABLIO: libpablio.a (gcc), pablio.lib (cl), makefile (cl/nmake makefile), pablio.h, portaudio.h, ringbuffer.h.