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Viewpoints on the History of Digital Synthesis
Overview The fundamental difficulty of digital synthesis is finding the smallest collection of synthesis techniques that span the gamut of musically desirable sounds with minimum redundancy. It is helpful when a technique is intuitively predictable. Predictability is good, for example, when analogies exist with well-known musical instruments, familiar sounds from daily experience, or established forms of communication (speech sounds). Sound synthesis and signal processing are inherently technical subjects. Although mathematical details will not be presented, this essay assumes familiarity with the engineering concepts behind computer music, particularly a conceptual understanding of a variety of sound synthesis techniques.
| Publisher | Stanford Knowledgebase | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | January 2003 | Downloads | 406 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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