Introduction to Sound Processing

Davide Rocchesso “Introduction to Sound Processing"
PHASAR Srl | 2003 | ISBN: 8890112611 | 236 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

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http://profs.sci.univr.it/~rocchess/htmls/corsi/SoundProcessing/SoundProcessingBook/vsp.pdf

I have not found any reviews (even at theassayer), however the preface tells us:

"What you have ... is an introductory book on sound processing. By reading this book, you may expect to acquire some knowledge on the mathematical, algorithmic, and computational tools that I consider to be important in order to become proficient sound designers or manipulators.

The book is targeted at both science- and art-oriented readers, even though the latter may find it hard if they are not familiar with calculus. For this purpose an appendix of mathematical fundamentals has been prepared in such a way that the book becomes self contained. Of course, the mathematical appendix is not intended to be a substitute of a thorough mathematical preparation, but rather as a shortcut for those readers that are more eager to understand the applications.

Indeed, this book was conceived in 1997, when I was called to teach introductory audio signal processing in the course “Specialisti in Informatica Musicale” organized by the Centro Tempo Reale in Firenze. In that class, the majority of the students were excellent (no kidding, really superb!) music composers. Only two students had a scientific background (indeed, a really strong scientific background!). The task of introducing this audience to filters and transforms was so challenging for me that I started planning the lectures and laboratory material much earlier and in a structured form. This was the initial form of this book. The course turned out to be an exciting experience for me and, based on the music and the research material that I heard from them afterward, I have the impression that the students also made good use of it. After the course in Firenze, I expanded and improved the book during four editions of my course on sound processing for computer science students at the University of Verona. The mathematical background of these students is different from that of typical electrical engineering students, as it is stronger in discrete mathematics and algebra, and with not much familiarity with advanced and applied calculus. Therefore, the books presents the basics of signals, systems, and transforms in a way that can be immediately used in applications and experienced in computer laboratory sessions.

Full online contents here:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/sp/

Section Headings:

1 Systems, Sampling and Quantization 1
2 Digital Filters 23
3 Delays and Effects 67
4 Sound Analysis 99
5 Sound Modelling 117

APPENDIX
A Mathematical Fundamentals 145
B Tools for Sound Processing
C Fundamentals of psychoacoustics 207