MUMT 307: Useful Links

• McClellan, Schafer, and Yoder, DSP First: A Multimedia Approach, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998. [Very good introductory book on DSP]
• Steiglitz, K., A Digital Signal Processing Primer, Addison-Wesley, 1996. [Great introductory DSP book with audio/music emphasis]
• Udo Zölzer, Digital Audio Signal Processing, John Wiley and Sons, UK, Second Edition, 2008. [available online]
• DAFX: Digital Audio Effects, editors: Xavier Amatriain, Udo Zölzer, Daniel Arfib, John Wiley and Sons, UK, Second Edition, 2002. [available online through McGill]
• Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller Puckette [ongoing book project]
• Introduction to Sound Recording by Geoff Martin [with good introduction to some mathematical concepts]
• Live Electronic Music Tutorial using Pd by Alexandre Torres Porres
• Additive Synthesis Waveform Generator

• Biquad EQ Cookbook
• Interactive Biquad Calculator using EQ Parameters
• Interactive Pole-Zero Calculator

• Pd Download Site
• Pure Data Manual
• The Pure Data Portal
• plug data

Sound and Impulse Response Resources on the Web

• Roy James' List of Publicly Available Room Impulse Responses
• Free Sound Samples
• Iowa Sound Database
• FreeSound.org
• RWC Music Database

• Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (VMPK)
• Audacity
• Reaper DAW
• WaveSurfer
• snd
• sndpeek
• rt_lpc
• RtFFT

Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) Information

• STK Home Page
• STK Class Hierarchy
• STK Tutorial

ChucK Information

• ChucK Home Page
• ChucK Tutorial

• C++ Style Guide
• C++ Tutorial
• C++ Standard Library Quick Reference
• C/C++ Reference
• C++ Tutorials and Resources
• Programming in C, UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C

• Unix Command Summary

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