Spring 2004 Synthesis Seminar Schedule

Week 1: Organizational stuff and overview

Week 2: Review I

Digital audio concepts

Spectrum analysis and FFTs

Week 3: Review II

Classical synthesis approaches and components

Digital filter basics

Week 4: Stk, PortAudio, PortMIDI

Stk classes

Stk example code

PortAudio overview

PortMIDI overview

Week 5: Synthesis engine design; modal synthesis

Drum machine demo (Bill Preder)

FM synthesis demo (Louis Gorenfeld)

Cello synthesis demo (Steven Lee)

Real-time synthesis engine design (patch language issues)

Week 6: Modal synthesis

Modal synthesis (Cook's approach)

Mode estimation: Chladni patterns

Week 7: Modal synthesis (con't)

Modal synthesis (Van den Doel's approach)

Week 8: Resonance modeling

Continuous excitation (Van den Doel)

Banded waveguides

Formant synthesis

Week 9: Physical modeling with waveguides I

Synthesis engine preliminary demos

Plucked string synthesis

Commuted synthesis model

SKINI file demonstrating mandolin parameters

Week 10: Physical modeling with waveguides II

Synthesis engine demos; discussion of extensions

Two clarinet models

Week 11: Physical modeling with waveguides III

Blown bottle model

Flute model

Week 12: 2- and 3-dimensional structures

2-D structures with waveguides

2-D structures with modal synthesis

Week 13: Particle models

Week 14: break

Week 15: Real-time timbre analysis; controllers