Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword: New music and science / John Chowning -- Preface to the second edition ; Acknowledgements ; Preface to the original edition ; I Digital audio. History of digital audio ; Basics of sound signals ; Theory of sampling / Curtis Roads with John M. Strawn -- Sample quantization, conversion, and audio formats ; II Introduction to sound synthesis. History of digital sound synthesis ; Wavetable lookup synthesis ; Time-varying waveform synthesis ; Software synthesis ; III Sound synthesis. Sampling ; Additive synthesis ; Multiple wavetable synthesis ; Wave terrain synthesis ; Granular synthesis ; Subtractive synthesis ; Modulation I: RM, SSM and AM ; Modulation II: FM, PM, PD and GM ; Waveshaping synthesis ; Physical modeling synthesis ; Virtual analog ; Formant synthesis ; Pulsar synthesis ; Waveform segment synthesis ; Concatenative synthesis / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads -- Graphic sound synthesis ; Noise, chaotic, and stochastic synthesis ; IV Mixing and signal processing. Sound mixing ; Dynamic range processing ; Digital filtering / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads -- Convolution / Curtis Roads with Bob L. T. Sturm -- Time delay effects ; Pitch-time changing ; Sound spatialization ; Reverberation ; V Sound analysis. Pitch estimation ; Rhythm recognition and automatic transcription ; Introduction to spectrum analysis ; Spectrum analysis by Fourier methods ; Spectrum analysis by alternative methods ; Spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition / Bob L. T. Sturm -- VI The musician's interface. Musical input devices ; Interactive performance software ; Sequence editors ; Sound editors, DAWs, and audio middleware ; Spectrum editors ; Common music notation editors ; Unconventional score editors ; Instrument and patch editors ; Languages for sound synthesis ; Languages for composition ; Algorithmic composition ; VII Interconnections. MIDI ; Open sound control / Curtis Roads and Matthew J. Wright -- System interconnections -- Appedix A. Machine learning / Bob L. T. Sturm with Curtis Roads

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