The audio programming book

This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by readers with varying levels of programming expertise, it not only provides the foundations for music and audio development but also tackles issues that sometimes remain mysterious even to experienced software designers. Exercises and copious examples (all cross-platform and based on free or open source software) make the book ideal for classroom use. Fifteen chapters and eight appendixes cover such topics as programming basics for C and C++ (with music-oriented examples), audio programming basics and more advanced topics, spectral audio programming; programming Csound opcodes, and algorithmic synthesis and music programming. Appendixes cover topics in compiling, audio and MIDI, computing, and math. An accompanying DVD provides an additional 40 chapters, covering musical and audio programs with micro-controllers, alternate MIDI controllers, video controllers, developing Apple Audio Unit plug-ins from Csound opcodes, and audio programming for the iPhone. The sections and chapters of the book are arranged progressively and topics can be followed from chapter to chapter and from section to section. At the same time, each section can stand alone as a self-contained unit. Readers will find The Audio Programming Book a trustworthy companion on their journey through making music and programming audio on modern computers.

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An overview of the C language with some elements of C++ / Victor Lazzarini and Richard Boulanger -- Programming in C / Richard Dobson -- Audio programming in C / Richard Dobson -- Working with audio streams / Gabriel Maldonado -- Introduction to program design / John ffitch -- Introduction to digital audio signals / Victor Lazzarini -- Time-domain audio programming / Victor Lazzarini -- Spectral audio programming basics : the DFT, the FFT, and convolution / Victor Lazzarini -- The STFT and spectral processing / Victor Lazzarini -- Programming the phase vocoder / Victor Lazzarini -- Understanding an opcode in Csound / John ffitch -- Spectral opcodes / Victor Lazzarini -- A modular synthesizer simulation program / Eric Lyon -- Using C to generate scores / John ffitch -- Modeling orchestral composition / Steven Yi -- Command-line tools reference / Jonathan Bailey -- Debugging software with the GNU debugger / Jonathan Bailey -- Soundfiles, soundfile formats, and libsndfile / Victor Lazzarini -- An introduction to real-time audio IO with PortAudio / Victor Lazzarini -- MIDI programming with PortMIDI / Victor Lazzarini -- Computer architecture, structures, and languages / John ffitch --…