•Course for Junior EEs (or those with appropriate signal processing and circuits background)
•Topics Covered
–Music Theory
•Reading the staff, building scales and chords
•Just and Equal temperament – sine waves to notes
–Effects processing
•Simulation of common effects in MATLAB (distortion,
chorus, flanging, delay, ring
modulation, etc)
–Audio Synthesis
–MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface
•Understanding the MIDI standard
•Decoding MIDI files
–Psychoacoustics and Lossy Digital Compression
•Psychoacoustics and human hearing.
•MPEG Audio Layer Standards (MP3, AAC, etc)
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