E85.2607 - Advanced Digital Signal Theory (Spring 2010)

Description

Advanced training in standard digital signal processing techniques for audio and music processing. Topics include filters, delay lines, additive and subtractive synthesis and modulation techniques. The course is organized in seminar-style lectures, where the theory will be reviewed. These will be complemented with MATLAB-based assignments.

Course Information

Instructor

Ron Weiss <[email protected]>

Office hours

Wednesdays 13:00 — 15:00
Room 624 Ed Building

Lectures

Thursdays 18:45 — 20:25
ITS Multimedia Center, 35 West 4th Street, 2nd Floor

Textbook

There is no required textbook, but you might find many of the following to be useful references. Any assigned reading will come from freely available sources.

1. DAFX – Digital Audio Effects, U. Zolzer, Editor, Wiley, 2002 (ISBN 0-471-49078-4)
2. A Digital Signal Processing Primer: with Applications to Digital Audio and Computer Music, K. Steiglitz, Addison-Wesley, 1996 (ISBN 0805316841)
3. Julius Smith's many freely available online publications:
   • Introduction to Digital Filters with Audio Applications
   • Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) with Audio Applications
   • Spectral Audio Signal Processing
   • and many others

Grading

Final grades will be based on (approximately) 5 biweekly homework assignments and a more comprehensive final project. Homeworks will require some MATLAB programming (I'm very receptive to Python / SciPy for those with strong preferences).

Details about the final project can be found here.

Syllabus