resources

textbooks

• Designing Sound by Andy Farnell (acoustics and PureData (Pd) examples; required)
• Math of the Fourier Transform with Audio Applications (Julius Smith's online book which we will use parts of)

related books and materials

digital signal processing

• 1 Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
  • 2 Introduction to Digital Filters
  • 3 Physical Audio Signal Processing
  • 4 Spectral Audio Signal Processing

Fourier Transforms

• http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
• The college library has a number of books on the Fourier Transform, as well as its math background: linear algebra, calculus, and complex numbers.

audio software & coding in Python libraries and resources

• https://wiki.python.org/moin/Audio/
• https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic

C/C++

• http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ - read/write sampled sound
• http://www.portaudio.com/ - audio I/O library
• http://musicdsp.org/ - C/C++ digital signal processing code collection
• http://www.alsa-project.org/ (linux audio)

software

• Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
• Max - virtual electronic instruments ($)
• Ableton Live - audio editing workstation ($)

other

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plgiarism
• creative commons