Day
Topics
| Lab
| Week 1, read Chapter 1
| 2.2-Tues
|
introduction, tools, goals / complex numbers
| 1. Building a Comb Filter and Using it
| 2/4-Thur
| ein, einwrap / phasors, beat frequencies
| "
| Week 2, read Chapters 2, 3
| 2/9-Tues
| ... / wave equation, strings
| "
| 2/11-Thur
| ... / sampling, quantizing
| "
| Week 3, read Chapter 4
| 2/16-Tues
| Student reports due (1), discussion
| 2. Using Filters
| 2/18-Thur
| ... / delay as an operator, frequency response
| "
| Week 4, read Chapter 5
| 2/23-Tues
| ... / resons (digital resonators)
| "
| 2/25-Thur
| ... / a lowpass filter, plucked-string filter
| "
| Week 5, read Chapter 6
| 3/2-Tues
| Student reports due (2), discussion
|
3. Tuning and Using Plucked-String Filters
| 3/4-Thur
| ... / allpass filters, tuning
| "
| Week 6, read Chapter 7
| 3/9-Tues
| reverb; temperament of scales
| First project topic due, discussion "
| 3/11-Thur
| algorithmic composition; Fourier series
| "
| Midterm Break
| Week 7, read Chapter 8
| 3/23-Tues
| Student reports due (3), discussion
| if time: pulse trains and buzz generators
4. speech, LPC
| 3/25-Thur
| speech modeling, LPC
| "
| Week 8, read Chapter 9
| 3/30-Tue
| first project due, discussion
| "
| 4/1-Thu
| spatial: hole-in-the-middle, Doppler.
| filter design, algorithms "
| Week 9, read Chapter 10
| 4/6-Tues
| Student reports due (4), discussion
| filter demo, DFT if time
5. filters, phase vocoder
| (three weeks) 4/8-Thu
| DFT, FFT, windows and practical spectrum analysis
| "
| Week 10, read Chapter 11
| 4/13-Tues
| second project topic due,
discussion
| phase vocoder "
| 4/15-Thu
| phase vocoder
| "
| Week 11,
read Chapter 12, 13
| 4/20-Tues
| superstrum
| "
| 4/22-Thu
| AM, FM synthesis
| "
| Week 12, read Chapter 14
| 4/27-Tues
| Student reports due (5), discussion
| work on final project
| 4/29-Thu
| ...
| work on final project
| Reading Period
|
second project
reports and presentations due end of reading period
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