Music and Computers: Table of Contents Preliminary Information Preface How To Use This Book Acknowledgements Introduction About Jsyn and the Applets CHAPTER 1 The Digital Representation of Sound, Part One: Sound and Timbre 1.1 What is Sound? 1.2 Amplitude 1.3 Frequency, Pitch and Intervals 1.4 Timbre Chapter 2 The Digital Representation of Sound, Part Two: Playing by the Numbers 2.1 The Digital Representation of Sound 2.2 Analog v. Digital 2.3 Sampling Theory 2.4 Binary Numbers 2.5 Bit Width 2.6 Digital Copying 2.7 Storage Concerns 2.8 Compression Chapter 3 The Frequency Domain 3.1 The Frequency Domain 3.2 Phasors 3.3 Fourier and the Sum of Sines 3.4 The DFT, FFT and IFFT 3.5 Problems with the FFT/IFFT 3.6 Some Alternatives to the FFT Chapter 4 The Synthesis of Sound by Computer 4.1 Introduction to Synthesis 4.2 Additive Synthesis 4.3 Filters 4.4 Formant Synthesis 4.5 Introduction to Modulation 4.6 Waveshaping 4.7 Frequency Modulation 4.8 Granular Synthesis 4.9 Physical Modeling Chapter 5 The Transformation of Sound by Computer 5.1 Sampling 5.2 Reverb 5.3 Localization/Spatialization 5.4 The Phase Vocoder 5.5 Convolution 5.6 Morphing 5.7 Graphical Manipulation <— To Title Page