ELEN E4896

Music Signal Processing

Audio and room/open air acoustics: frequency and time-domain characteristics.
Microphones and speakers for stereo and surround sound (design, characteristics, and placement).
A/D and D/A conversion, dithering, digital audio wire and file formats.
Mixing 1 ? Design and architecture of analog and digital mixers. Case studies: Behringer MX3242X and Yamaha 02R96.
Mixing 2 ? The mixing process, with an introduction to mastering.
Digital Audio Effects 1 ? Filters, Delays, Modulators and Demodulators
Digital Audio Effects 2 ? Nonlinear processing, spatial effects, time-segment and time-frequency processing.
Digital Audio Workstations 1 ? Design and architecture. Case study: Digidesign Pro Tools.
Digital Audio Workstations 2 ? Automation, soft-wired instruments, control surfaces. Case studies: Digidesign ProControl, Propellerheads Reason and ReWire.
Synthesizers and samplers, introduction to sound synthesis algorithms.