Audio Anecdotes II: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio

by Greenebaum ,Ken

• ISBN13: 9781568812144
• ISBN10: 1568812140
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781040187050
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: A. K. Peters

Summary

The second volume in this collection continues the exploration and coverage of topical issues in digital audio. It is written for a professional audience of users and draws on the experience of experts who are at the cutting edge of their subject.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xiii
Field Recording	1	(26)
A Quick Field Recording Primer for the Adventurous Sound Effects Recordist	3	(10)
Mike Caviezel
Holding on for Dear Life: Recording the Automobile	13	(10)
Mike Caviezel
A Brief Introduction to Binaural Recording	23	(4)
Gordon Hempton
Ken Greenebaum
Synthesis	27	(38)
Ambient Synthesis with Random Sound Fields	29	(8)
Hesham Fouad
Band Limited Oscillators Using Wave Table Synthesis	37	(18)
Phil Burk
Subtractive Synthesis without Filters	55	(10)
John Lazzaro
John Wawrzynek
Signal Processing	65	(76)
Finite Impulse Response Filters	67	(12)
Stuart Allman
Infinite Impulse Response Filters	79	(14)
Stuart Allman
Replacing Analog Filters with DSP by Using the Bilinear Transform	93	(8)
Stuart Allman
Floating Point Fast Fourier Transform	101	(26)
Hal Chamberlin
Fast Fourier Transform Using Integer Math	127	(14)
Hal Chamberlin
Spatialization	141	(32)
Spatialization with Stereo Loudspeakers	143	(16)
Hesham Fouad
Spatialization with Multiple Loudspeakers	159	(14)
Ville Pulkki
Computer Techniques	173	(52)
No Need to Shout: Volume Controls and the Digital Sound Convergence	175	(8)
Ken Greenebaum
Count in Frames! (Not Samples or Bytes)	183	(10)
Ken Greenebaum
Introduction to the Ring Buffer FIFO Queue	193	(16)
Ken Greenebaum
Wrapped I/O	209	(16)
Ken Greenebaum
Computer Tools	225	(32)
SoX Sound Exchange Library	227	(10)
Chris Bagwell
The Synthesis ToolKit (STK) in C++	237	(18)
Perry R. Cook
Gary Scavone
The QEDesign Filter Design Package	255	(2)
Chris Bore
Music Theory	257	(46)
Basic Music Theory: Notation, Scales, and Chords	259	(30)
Benjamin Tomassetti
Basic Music Theory: Rhythm and Meter	289	(14)
Benjamin Tomassetti
Sound Design	303	(58)
Designing the Auditory Narrative: A Methodology for Sound Design	305	(24)
Maribeth J. Back
Sound as Information: An Introduction to Auditory Display	329	(12)
Rob Tannen
Auditory Feedback for Computer Devices	341	(20)
Linda A. Roberts
Cynthia A. Sikora
Nature	361	(34)
Brainwave Entrainment through Binaural Sound	363	(12)
Jeffrey Thompson
Introduction to Bioacoustics	375	(20)
Jeffrey Greenebaum
Glossary of Audio Terms	395	(34)
Contributor Biographies	429	(6)
Index	435