Digital audio and acoustics for the creative arts - Ballora, Mark (New York, NY Oxford University Press, 2017)
1. Basic acoustics -- The nature of sound events -- Wave propagation -- Speed and velocity -- Frequencies of strings and echoes -- Suggested exercises -- 2. Music and acoustics -- Properties of musical sound -- What is the difference between music and noise? -- Frequency/pitch -- Loudness -- Timbre -- Making waves: building blocks of sound synthesis -- Suggested exercises -- 3. Perceptual issues in acoustics -- What is the difference between consonance and dissonance? -- Sound spectra in time -- Localization of natural events -- Mismatches between measurement and perception -- Auditory scene analysis -- Turn it down! -- Suggested exercises -- 4. Fundamentals of electricity -- Static electricity -- Current, voltage, resistance, and power -- The battery -- Magnetism -- Controlling current: from vacuum tubes to microprocessors -- Electronics and music -- Studio connections -- Suggested exercises -- 5. The basics of digital audio -- Historical context -- Digitizing audio: the big picture -- Characteristics of digital audio -- Filtering -- The digital filtering process -- The digital recording and playback process -- Suggested exercises -- 6. Working with digital audio -- Analysis and processing -- Oversampling and noise shaping -- Perceptual coding -- Storage media -- Hard-disk recording: the convergence of multimedia -- Video streaming and networked music -- Suggested exercises -- 7. Acoustic signatures: room acoustics, microphones, and loudspeakers -- Room acoustics -- Microphones -- Microphone configurations -- Loudspeaker technology -- Suggested exercises -- 8. Treating and mixing audio -- Effects: an introduction -- A few words on length -- Latency -- Delay-based effects -- Building blocks of delay-based effects: comb and all-pass filters -- Delay-based effects -- Spectral effects -- Dynamic effects -- Mixing and signal flow -- Stereophony -- Mastering -- Suggested exercises -- 9. Communication among devices -- MIDI: the big picture -- Connecting MIDI synthesizers -- MIDI messages -- Additions to the MIDI protocol -- Just what do you mean by that? -- Open sound control (OSC) -- Remapping values -- DIY device development -- Suggested exercises -- 10. Digital instruments -- Hardware instruments -- Software instruments -- Sound synthesis -- Algorithmic and interactive composition -- Suggested exercises -- 11. Tales from the trenches: survival tips in specific contexts -- Live sound mixing -- Setting up a recording studio -- Scoring for video -- Networking devices -- Appendix 1: Geometric view of a sine wave -- Phasors, radians, and the unit circle -- Appendix 2: Plotting the sine charts in a spreadsheet -- Creating a basic sine wave plot -- Building on the foundation -- Appendix 3: Overview of logarithms -- Exponents, viewed from another angle -- Appendix 4: Representing numbers -- Numbers are power -- Of what value power? -- Numbers in computers.
Keywords: Music -- Acoustics and physics; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques