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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.

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Publisher	Stanford Knowledgebase	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2003	Downloads	406
Format	White Papers
Topics	MP3 / Digital Formats, Music Media, Sound Recording

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