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This is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject. NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people. On some of them I lost the original commentor's name. Sorry about that. If you have additions or correction to this information, please mail me. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body).
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Title: Computer music in C / Phil Winsor & Gene DeLisa.
Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : TAB Books (Windcrest label), c1991.
Subjects: Computer sound processing.
Computer composition.
C (Computer program language)
Midi programming
ISBN: 0-8306-3637-4 (p) : $22.95
It has a C source disk for the PC available for $25.
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Title: Mind over MIDI / edited by Dominic Milano ; by the editors
of Keyboard magazine.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1987.
Series Name: The Keyboard magazine basic library
Other Series Names: Keyboard synthesizer library.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
ISBN: 0-88188-551-7 (pbk.) : $12.95
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Title: MIDI- und sound-buch zum Atari ST. English
Title: MIDI and sound book for the Atari ST / Bernd Enders and
Wolfgang Klemme.
Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M & T Pub., c1989.
Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study.
Computer sound processing.
MIDI (Standard)
Atari ST computers--Programming.
ISBN: 1-55851-042-7 : $17.95
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Atari ST Introduction to MIDI Programming
Len Dorfman and Dennis Young
ISBN 0-916439-77-1
Bantam Books,Inc.
666 5th Avenue
New York,New York
10103
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Title: Music through MIDI : using MIDI to create your own
electronic music system / Michael Boom.
Publisher: Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press, c1987.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Subjects: Musical instruments, Electronic.
Subjects: Electronic music--Instruction and study.
Subjects: Computer sound processing.
ISBN: 1-55615-026-1 (pbk.) : $19.95
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Title: The MIDI drummer : by a drummer for a drummer -- / by David
Crigger.
Publisher: Newbury Park, CA : Alexander Pub., c1987.
Subjects: Electronic percussion instruments--Instruction and study.
MIDI (Standard)
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Title: MIDI for guitarists / by Bob Ward and Marty Cutler ;
Publisher: London ; New York : Amsco Publications ; New York, NY, USA
Exclusive distributors: Music Sales Corp., c1988.
Subjects: Electric guitar--Instruction and study.
MIDI (Standard)
ISBN: 0-8256-1126-1 (U.S.)
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Title: MIDI for musicians / by Craig Anderton.
Publisher: New York : Amsco Publications, c1986.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
ISBN: 0-8256-1050-8 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0-8256-2214-X (pbk. : cover)
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Title: MIDI guitar : a complete applications directory for the
modern guitarist / [by Rey Sanchez ; forward [sic] by
Randy Bernsen].
Publisher: Miami, FL : CPP/Belwin, c1988.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
Electric guitar.
ISBN: 0-89898-544-7 : $15.95
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Title: Midi guitar and synthesis : the basics of guitar synthesis
/ by Paul Youngblood.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Co., c1989.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
Electric guitar.
ISBN: 0-88188-886-9 : $14.95
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Title: The MIDI home studio / by Howard Massey.
Publisher: London ; New York : Amsco Publications ; New York, NY, USA
: Music Sales Corp. [distributor], c1988.
ISBN: 0-8256-1127-X (U.S.)
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Title: The MIDI manual / David Miles Huber.
Publisher: Carmel, Ind., USA : Howard W. Sams, c1991.
ISBN: 0-672-22757-6, 250pp.
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Title: The MIDI programmer's handbook / Steve De Furia and Joe
Scacciaferro, Ferro Technologies.
Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Pub., c1989.
ISBN: 1-55851-068-0, 250 pp. Paperback. $24.95 Mix Bookshelf part # 3539C
*** This book is now out of print ***
New, advanced MIDI desk reference is perfect for programmers and MIDI power
users. The heart of the book is a summary and explanation of every MIDI
command, in hex, binary, decimal and English. Also features detailed
discussion of software design concerns, synchronization formats, MTC,
sample dump, MIDI files and system exclusive processing.
It discusses writing software to handle MIDI information at the application
level. In other words, they assume you have already written or otherwise
obtained access to the necessary code to talk to your hardware to send and
receive the MIDI data. This approach frees the entire discussion from
being tied to any particular hardware or programming approach. Instead, it
spends its time on that which is valuable to the experienced programmer.
Issues such as MIDI file format, timing (SMPTE, MTC, etc), parsing MIDI
data and processing it, MIDI sample dump standard, etc. are all handled in
fine detail.
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THE MIDI IMPLEMENTATION BOOK, Defuria & Scacciaferro
Contains complete documentation of MIDI commands implemented by more than
200 instruments. This data has come directly from hardware manufacturers
and allows you to find MIDI functions of specific instruments, compare
features of similar instruments and choose equipment to meet specific
applications. A standard, one-page implementation chart is used for each
product. 1986, 216 pp. $19.95
Mix Bookshelf, 1-800-233-9604 (US & Canada). Doesn't say who publishes
it, and its terribly out-dated (1986), but they might have published
another addition by now.
The MIDI System Exclusive Book by Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferra.
Third Earth Productions, Pompton Lakesm N.J. Distributed by Hal
Leonard Books. Sorry no ISBN.
The MIDI Resource Book. Same guys. ISBN 0-88188-587-8
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Title: MIDI programming for the Macintosh / Steve De Furia and Joe
Scacciaferro.
Publisher: Redwood City, CA : M&T Books, 1988.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
Macintosh (Computer)--Programming.
ISBN: 1-55851-021-4 : $22.95
ISBN: 1-55851-022-2 (book & disk) : $39.95
ISBN: 1-55851-023-0 (disk) : $20.00
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Title: C Programming for MIDI / Jim Conger.
Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Books, 1989.
501 Galveston Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
Subjects: MIDI, C, sequencing
This book shows how to use the basic features of an MPU-401 interface.
Includes a disk with MS-DOS code.
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Title: MIDI sequencing in C / Jim Conger.
Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Books, 1989.
501 Galveston Drive Redwood City, CA 94063
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
C (Computer program language)
Sequential processing (Computer science)
ISBN: 1-55851-045-1 (book) : $24.95
ISBN: 1-55851-047-8 (disk) : $20.00
ISBN: 1-55851-046-X (set) : $39.95
This book continues where the provious one lefts off.
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Title: MIDI systems and control / Francis Rumsey.
Publisher: London ; Boston : Focal Press, 1990.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
ISBN: 0-240-51300-2 : $14.95 (U.S.)
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Title: MIDI, the ins, outs & thrus / by Jeff Rona ; edited by
Ronny S. Schiff.
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : H. Leonard Books, c1987.
Notes: "A complete guide to the understanding, use, and buying of
MIDI instruments"--Cover.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Computer sound processing.
ISBN: 0-88188-560-6 (pbk.) : $12.95
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Title: MIDI : a comprehensive introduction / Joseph Rothstein.
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : A-R Editions, c1992.
Subjects: MIDI (Standard)
Series: The Computer music and digital audio series ; v. 7
ISBN: 0-89579-258-3 : $39.95
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Microsoft Press put out a book on midi programming. I
think that this is rather a weak book, but it might serve
as an introduction for non-computer folk.
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Several other books are out that were written by musicians.
They are interesting as a intro to using midi, but contain
a dearth of info from my perspective. As a programmer, I
have the wrong perspective to sort these out.
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Real Time MIDI performance interfaces
Dannenberg, "...computer accompaniment..." ICMC87, ICMC85(??)
(maybe "Bloch and Dannenberg", don't have it handy)
X. Chabot ??
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Title: Build a better music synthesizer / Thomas Henry.
Publication Info: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Tab Books, c1987.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Construction.6
ISBN: 0-8306-0255-0 : $17.95
ISBN: 0-8306-2755-3 (pbk.) : $11.45
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Musical Applications of Microprocessors
Hal Chamberlin
ISBN 0-8104-5773-3
1980, still in print.
I have seen two editions: mine from the early 80's, and a hardback
that my friend has from the late 80's. His has 68000 assember
for an FFT routine.
Hayden Book Company, Inc.
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Rochelle Park, NJ
This covers analog and digital sound synthesis from an experimenter's
perspective, not much math, lots of algorithms and circuits. If you want
to solder and program in your garage and make lots of weird sounds, this is
the bible. Lots of BASIC programs, but they're very short, just to
demonstrate algorithms. It's a few years old now and the electronic
devices used in the book are dated, but the explanations and principles are
still valid. It discusses things such as real time synthesis, play back of
stored soundwaves, sampling, running multiple D-As in parallel, software
for computing soundwaves (it even covers Fast Fourier Transforms) and more.
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Title: Computer music : synthesis, composition, and performance /
Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse.
Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books, c1985.
Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study.
Computer composition.
ISBN: 0-02-873100-X
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Moore, F. Richard. Elements of Computer Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1990.
$38.00 + $4.00 shipping UPS surface
ISBN: 0-13252-552-6
Lots of stuff on software synthesis, and more, all centered around cmusic
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This book is very well "A syntesist's Guide to Acoustic Instruments"
Amsco Publications,New York, 1987
author: H.Massey
I found the Howard Massey "Sysnthesists Guide to Acoustic Instruments"
to be a pretty good book for general synthesizer knowledge, mostly
because it doesn't try to explain the specifics of a synth.
..David Elliott
..dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
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Schottstaedt, Bill. "The Simulation of Natural Instrument Tones Using
Frequency Modulation with a Complex Modulating Wave." Computer Music
Journal 1, 4 (1977): 46-50.
also in:
Roads, Curtis and John Strawn, ed.The Foundations of Computer Music.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
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J. Chowning
"The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Frequency
Modulation"
J. Audio Eng. Soc. 21, no. 7 (1973):526-534
[This is the standard reference.]
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J. Chowning and D. Bristow
"FM Theory and Applications by Musicians for Musicians"
Yamaha Music Foundation, Tokyo, 1986
ISBN 4-636-17482-8
[Could be difficult to find.]
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Marc LeBrun
"A derivation of the Spectrum of FM with a Complex Modulating Wave."
Computer Music Journal Volume 1, Number 4. 1977, pages 51-52.
Also in Roads and Strawn, Foundations of Computer Music.
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Marc LeBrun
"Digital Waveshaping Synthesis"
Journal of the AES, 27(4), 1979: 250-266
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J.A. Moorer
"The synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Discrete
Summation Formulae"
Music Department, Stanford U., 1975 (Report no. STAN-M-5.)
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Moore, F. Richard. "Table Lookup Noise for Sinusoidal Digital Oscillators."
Computer Music Journal 1, 2 (1977): 26-29. Reprinted in Curtis Roads,
ed. _Foundations of Computer Music_ (MIT Press, 1985).
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Chareyron, J. "Digital Synthesis of Self-modifying Waveforms by Means of Linear Automata", Computer Music Journal, Vol 14 No. 4, 1990.
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Title: The synthesizer / John Bates.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Music Dept., 1988.
Series Name: Oxford topics in music
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Juvenile literature.
Musical instruments, Electronic--Juvenile literature.
Computer music--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
Musical instruments, Electronic.
Computer music--History and criticism.
ISBN: 0-19-321337-0
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Title: The synthesizer and electronic keyboard handbook / David
Crombie ; [foreword by Thomas Dolby].
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1984.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study.
Electronic keyboard (Synthesizer)
ISBN: 0-394-72711-8 (pbk.) : $13.95
ISBN: 0-394-54084-0 : $25.00
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Title: Synthesizer basics / by Dean Friedman.
Publisher: New York : Amsco Publications : Exclusive distributor,
Music Sales Corp., c1986.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0-8256-2409-6 (pbk.)
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Title: Synthesizer basics / by the editors of Keyboard magazine.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1984.
Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library ; v. 1
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study.
Electronic music--Instruction and study.
ISBN: 0-88188-289-5 (pbk.) : $8.95
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Title: Synthesizer basics / edited by Brent Hurtig from the pages
of Keyboard magazine. (rev. ed)
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1988.
Series Name: The Keyboard magazine basic library
Notes: Cover subtitle: The musician's reference for creating,
performing, and recording electronic music.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study.
Electronic music--Instruction and study.
ISBN: 0-88188-714-5 (pbk.) : $12.95
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Title: Synthesizer orchestration : a creative approach for the
arranger and synthesist includes cassette recording of
musical examples / by Steve Quinzi.
Publisher: Miami Fla. : Studio 224, c1987.
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Title: Synthesizer programming / edited by Dominic Milano ; by the
editors of Keyboard magazine.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, c1987.
Series Name: Keyboard synthesizer library
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0-88188-550-9 (pbk.)
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Title: Synthesizer technique / by the editors of Keyboard
magazine.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1987.
Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0-88188-715-3 (pbk.) : $12.95
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Title: Casio FZ-1 & FZ-10M digital sampling synthesizer : the
essential guide to practical applications / Joe
Scacciaferro, Steve DeFuria.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, USA : Hal Leonard Books, c1988.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0-88188-967-9 : $14.95
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Title: Synthesizermusik und Live-Elektronik : geschichtliche,
technologische, kompositorische und padagogische Aspekte
der elektronischen Musik / Gunther Batel, Dieter Salbert.
Publisher: Wolfenbuttel : Moseler, c1985.
Subjects: Electronic music--Instruction and study.
Computer music--Instruction and study.
Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 3-7877-3534-8
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Title: Synthesizers and computers / by the editors of Keyboard
magazine.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1985.
Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library ; v. 3
Notes: Contributions by Bob Moog and others.
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Title: Synthesizers and computers / edited by Brent Hurtig.
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1987.
Series Name: Keyboard magazine basic library
Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study.
Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
MIDI (Standard)
ISBN: 0-88188-716-1 (pbk.) : $12.95
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Title: Electronic music: a handbook of sound synthesis & control
[by] M. L. Eaton.
Publisher: [Kansas City, Mo., ORCUS, 1969]
Series Name: ORCUS technical publication, TP-3003
Subjects: Electro-acoustics.
Electronic music--Instruction and study.
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Title: Electronic music circuits / by Barry Klein.
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : H.W. Sams, c1982.
Series Name: Blacksburg continuing education series
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Construction.
Electronic circuits.
ISBN: 0-672-21833-X (pbk.) : $16.95
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Title: Electronic music synthesizers / by Delton T. Horn.
Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books, c1980.
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0-8306-9722-5 : $9.95
ISBN: 0-8306-1167-3 (pbk.) : $5.95
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Title: Electronic music technology / NRI.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : McGraw-Hill Continuing Education Center,
c1988.
Subjects: Oscillators, Electric--Programmed instruction.
Musical instruments, Electronic--Programmed instruction.
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Author: Kettelkamp, Larry.
Title: Electronic musical instruments : what they do, how they
work / Larry Kettelkamp ; foreword by Herbert Deutsch.
Publisher: New York : W. Morrow, 1984.
Notes: Explains the principles of electronic music, discusses the
uses of such electronic instruments as oscillators,
synthesizers, electronic organs, and sound processors, and
gives advice on performing and recording electronic music.
Subjects: Musical instruments, Electronic.
Musical instruments, Electronic.
Electronic music.
ISBN: 0-688-02781-4
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Title: The Art of electronic music / compiled by Tom Darter ;
edited by Greg Armbruster.
Publisher: New York : Quill, c1984.
Notes: "...Edited from material originally published in Keyboard
magazine from 1975 to 1983"--T.p. verso.
Subjects: Electronic music--History and criticism.
Musical instruments, Electronic.
Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
Musicians--Interviews.
ISBN: 0-688-03106-4 (pbk.) : $15.95
ISBN: 0-688-03105-6
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Title: The liberation of sound : an introduction to electronic
music / by Herbert Russcol ; new introduction by Otto
Luening ; preface by Jacques Barzun.
Publisher: New York : Da Capo Press, 1994.
Series : Da Capo Press music reprint series
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Subjects: Electronic music--History and criticism.
ISBN: 0-306-76263-3 : $35.00
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Moorer, James A. and Grey, John: "Lexicon of Analyzed Tones";
Computer Music Journal, volume 1 Number 2, volume 1 number 3,
volume 2 number 2, volume 2 number 3, and continuing.
The first installment of the lexicon was an analysis of a violin tone.
The second analyzed Clarinet and Oboe tones, and the third presented an
analysis of a trumpet tone.
These analyses included spectral plots (time versus amplitude for the first
21 partials), spectrographic plots (frequency versus amplitude), and amplitude
and frequency versus time plots for the first sixteen partials. Additional
information is given about formants of the instruments and the analysis
and resynthesis methods which the authors used (The analysis was done with
a Heterodyne Filter algorithm). While the authors claim that the tones
were resynthesized and were nearly indistinguishable from the originals, they
ARE only single, specific notes played on a specific example of the original
instrument, so, while they would be a good starting point for re-synthesis of
an instrument, they are by no means sufficient.
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Title: The acoustical foundations of music / John Backus.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: New York : Norton, c1977.
Subjects: Music--Acoustics and physics.
ISBN: 0-393-09096-5 : $10.95
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Author : Douglas, Alan
Title : Electronic Musical Instrument Manual
Published: 1961 (sorry no more info available)
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Title: Electronic music composition for beginners / Robert Train
Adams.
Publisher: Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown, c1986.
Subjects: Electronic composition.
ISBN: 0-697-00457-0 (pbk.)
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Languages for Computer Music/Real Time Control
Mathews (The Music "N" languages) (No reference handy)
Dannenberg et al, "Arctic...", CMJ 10(4)
Dannenberg "Canon", CMJ???, "Fugue" ICMC89
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TITLE: The music machine : selected readings from "Computer music journal" /
ed. by Curtis Roads
IMPRINT: Cambridge, Masschusetts, [etc.] : MIT Press, 1989 * XIV, 725 p. :
ill. ; 26 cm
NAMES: Roads, Curtis
ISBN: 0-262-18131-2 m
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TITLE: Informatique et musique : session musicologique de l'International
computer music conference organisee par l'equipe ERATTO [a] Paris,
IRCAM, 24 octobre 1984 / [textes reunis et presentes par Helene
Charnasse]
IMPRINT: Ivry-sur-Seine : Elmeratto, 1988 * 145 p. ; 30 cm
SERIES: Publications Elmeratto
NAMES: Charnasse, Helene * (1984 ; Parijs)
ISBN: 2-902671-07-5 m
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AUTHOR: Manning, Peter
TITLE: Electronic and computer music / [by] Peter Manning
EDITION: Repr.
IMPRINT: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988 * VI, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 0-19-311923-4 m p * 0-19-311918-8 v
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AUTHOR: Davis, Deta S.
TITLE: Computer applications in music : a bibliography / [by] Deta S. Davis
IMPRINT: Madison, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, 1988 * XVIII, 537 p. ; 24 cm
SERIES: The computer music and digital audio series ; vol. 4
ISBN: 0-89579-225-7 $49.95
TITLE: Computer applications in music : a bibliography, supplement 1
/ Deta S. Davis.
SERIES: The Computer music and digital audio series ; v. 10
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AUTHOR: Bartle, Barton K.
TITLE: Computer software in music and music education : a guide / by Barton
K. Bartle
IMPRINT: Metuchen, N.J., [etc.] : Scarecrow Press, 1987 * XIV, 252 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 0-8108-2056-0 m
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TITLE: Foundations of computer music / ed. by Curtis Roads [and] John Strawn
EDITION: 3rd print.
IMPRINT: Cambridge, Massachusetts, [etc.] : MIT Press, 1987 * XX, 712 p. ; 23
cm
NAMES: Roads, Curtis * Strawn, John
ISBN: 0-262-68051-3 m * 0-262-18114-2 v
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TITLE: Computer music / [ed.-in-chief: Anthony I. Wasserman]
IMPRINT: New York : ACM, 1985 * 120 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
SERIES: Computing surveys ; vol. 17, nr. 2. 0360-0300
NAMES: Wasserman, Anthony I.
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Title: Computer Music Association source book : activities and
resources in computer music / compiled and edited by Craig
R. Harris and Stephen T. Pope.
Publisher: [San Francisco, CA, USA] (P.O. Box 1634, San Francisco
94101-1634) : The Association, c1987.
Subjects: Computer Music Association--Directories.
Computer music--Directories.
Computer music--History and criticism--Bibliography.
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Title: Computers and musical style / David Cope.
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : A-R Editions, c1991.
Series: The Computer music and digital audio series ; v. 6
Subjects: Computer composition.
ISBN: 0-89579-256-7 (hardcover)
The book includes (LISP) source code to significant parts of his EMI
system (Experiments in Musical Intelligence). For the non-technical reader
there is a brief introduction to LISP programming. There are numerous
examples of programs applied to examples from musical literature, (Bach,
Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky and many others). The program produces an
analysis of the regularities in two or more pieces of the same style and
uses these as "signiatures" to generate a new piece in that style. Cope's
methodology is derived from a mixture of classical AI (or rule based)
models and linguistic grammars (Augmented Transition Network).
The results are interesting and can be remarkable. But I have to add that
there are significant problems with the methods. The system seems good at
capturing very local phenomena, (such as cadence formulae), but is
ill-conditioned for capturing more global aspects of musical structure
(such as melodic coherence, harmonic interest, &c). These problems have
been acknowledged by the author but I think they are unsolvable in the
current working paradigm.
Michael Casey (mkc@media.mit.edu)
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Title: New music composition / David Cope. Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books, c1977. Subjects: Composition (Music) ISBN: 0-02-870630-7
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Ames, C. 1982, Protocol: Motivation, Design and Production of a
Composition for Solo Piano, "Interface", 2:11.
Cope, D., 1987, An Expert System for Computer-Assisted Composition,
"Computer Music Journal", 11:4.
Loy, G., 1985, Programming with Computers- a Survey of Some
Compositional Formalisms and Music Programming Languages, in "Current
Directions in Computer Music Research", ed. Max Matthews and John
Pierce, Cambridge: MIT press.
Loy, G. 1991, Connectionism and Musiconomy, "International Computer
Music Conference Proceedings", CMA, 1991.
Schottstaedt, W., 1989, Automatic Counterpoint, in "Current Directions
in Computer Music Research", ed. Max Matthews and John Pierce,
Cambridge: MIT press.
Todd, P., 1989, A Connectionist Approach to Algorithmic Composition,
"Computer Music Journal", 13:4.
Winograd, T., 1968, Linguistics and the Computer Analysis of Tonal
Harmony, "Journal of Music Theory", 12:1
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM
edited by
Peter M. Todd and D. Gareth Loy
MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM is now available from MIT Press. This 280-pp. book
contains a wide variety of recent research in the applications of neural
networks and other connectionist methods to the problems of musical listening
and understanding, performance, composition, and aesthetics. It consists of a
core of articles that originally appeared in the Computer Music Journal, along
with several new articles by Kohonen, Mozer, Bharucha, and others, and new
addenda to the original articles describing the authors' most recent work.
Topics covered range from models of psychological processing of pitches,
chords, and melodies, to algorithmic composition and performance factors. A
wide variety of connectionist models are employed as well, including
back-propagation in time, Kohonen feature maps, ART networks, and Jordan- and
Elman-style networks. We've also included a discussion generated by the
Computer Music Journal articles on the use and place of connectionist systems
in artistic endeavors. A more detailed description of the book is provided
below (from the jacket text), along with the complete table of contents.
MUSIC AND CONNECTIONISM can be found in bookstores that carry MIT Press
publications, or can be purchased directly from MIT Press by calling their
toll-free order number, 1-800-356-0343, and giving the operator this catalog
number: 1CSAT 503, and this book code: TODMH. By phone and mail-order, the
price is $39.95; in stores, it will probably be $45 (there is some confusion
with the publisher on this point, so I wanted to give out the detailed
information for phone orders to save people some money).
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Music and Connectionism
edited by Peter M. Todd and D. Gareth Loy
As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always
been a difficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connectionist
paradigm, now beginning to provide insights into many realms of human
behavior, offers a new and unified viewpoint from which to investigate the
subtleties of musical experience. Music and Connectionism provides a
fresh approach to both fields, using techniques of connectionism and parallel
distributed processing to look at a wide range of topics in music research,
from pitch perception to chord fingering to composition.
The contributors, leading researchers in both music psychology and neural
networks, address the challenges and opportunities of musical applications of
network models. The result is a current and thorough survey that advances our
understanding of musical perception, cognition, composition, and performance
and of the design and analysis of networks.
Music and Connectionism is based on a core of articles originally appearing as
two special issues of the Computer Music Journal. These have been augmented
with addenda covering more recent research by the authors. The book opens
with tutorial chapters introducing neural networks in a musical context and
relevant aspects of previous computer music research, making this a
self-contained text. There are many new chapters, along with new section
introductions, summaries of related work, and a final debate on the artistic
implications of connectionist methods.
Peter M. Todd is a doctoral candidate in the PDP Research Group of the
Psychology Department at Stanford University. Gareth Loy DMA is an
award-winning composer, member of the Board of Directors of the Computer Music
Association, lecturer in the Music Department of UC San Diego, and member of
the technical staff of Frox Inc.
Contents:
Preface and Introduction
Peter M. Todd and D. Gareth Loy
Part 1: Background
Machine Tongues XII: Neural Networks
Mark Dolson
Connectionism and Musiconomy
D. Gareth Loy
Part 2: Perception and Cognition
A Neural Net Model for Pitch Perception
Hajime Sano and B. Keith Jenkins
Connectionist Models for Tonal Analysis
Don L. Scarborough, Ben O. Miller, and Jacqueline A. Jones
The Representation of Pitch in a Neural Net Model of Chord Classification
Bernice Laden and Douglas H. Keefe
Pitch, Harmony, and Neural Nets: A Psychological Perspective
Jamshed J. Bharucha
The Ontogenesis of Tonal Semantics: Results of a Computer Study
Marc Leman
Modeling the Perception of Tonal Structure with Neural Nets
Jamshed J. Bharucha and Peter M. Todd
Using Connectionist Models to Explore Complex Musical Patterns
Robert O. Gjerdingen
The Quantization of Musical Time: A Connectionist Approach
Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing
Part 3: Applications
A Connectionist Approach to Algorithmic Composition
Peter M. Todd
Connectionist Music Composition Based on Melodic, Stylistic, and
Psychophysical Constraints
Michael C. Mozer
Creation By Refinement and the Problem of Algorithmic Music Composition
J.P. Lewis
A Nonheuristic Automatic Composing Method
Teuvo Kohonen, Pauli Laine, Kalev Tiits, and Kari Torkkola
Fingering for String Instruments with the Optimum Path Paradigm
Samir I. Sayegh
Part 4: Conclusions
Letter from Otto Laske
Responses to Laske by Todd and Loy
Further Research and Directions
Peter M. Todd
List of Author Addresses
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BOOK ANNONNCEMENT
Representations of Musical Signals
edited by Giovanni De Poli, Aldo Piccialli, and Curtis Roads
Published by MIT Press, 1991
ISBN 0-262-04113-8, 478 pages, hardcover, US$ 50.00
Representations of Musical Signals describes a new generation of digital
audio and computer music systems made possible by recent advances in
digital signal processing theory, hardware design, and programming
techniques. It explores new representations of musical signals that can
have profund effects on the way musicians conceive of and realize musical
ideas. In particular, the book focuses on models that combine time-domain
and frequency-domain representations (grains, wavelets, and physical
models), visual programming and advanced user interfaces, and that
incorporate musical knowledge using artificial intelligence techniques and
adaptive neural net- works. The 14 contributions take up issues of how
musical signals should be displayed to musicians, engineers, and scientists
who want to work with them, how professionals can work with the
representations to accomplish musical tasks, how systems can be designed to
permit working with multiple views of the same signal, and how representations of musical signals should be organized to promote efficient
communication between devices using these signals.
Representations of Musical Signals is aimed at the expanding group of
musicians, engineers, and scientists who are interested in innovative
approache to digital audio and computer music. We expect that this book
will be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in computer music,
musical acoustics, and digital audio signal processing.
Giovanni De Poli is a member of the faculty of the Department of
Electronics and Informatics at the University of Padua. Aldo Piccialli is
a member of the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of
Naples. Curtis Roads is a composer and consulting editor of Computer Music
Journal.
INDEX
Contributors xi
Preface xiii
I. TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSICAL SIGNALS 1
Overview
A. Piccialli 3
1. Timbre Analysis by Synthesis: Representations,
limitations, and Variants for Musical Composition
J. C. Risset 7
2. Application of Time-Frequency and Time-Scale
Methods (Wavelet Transforms) to the Analysis,
Synthesis, and Transformation of Natural Sounds
R. Kronland-Martinet and A. Grossman 45
3. Analysis, Transformation, and Resynthesis of
Musical Sounds with the Help of a Time-Frequency
Representation
D. Arfib 87
4. Wavelet Transforms that We Can Play
G. Evangelista 119
II. GRANULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSICAL SIGNALS 137
Overview
G. De Poli 139
5. Asynchronous Granular Synthesis
C. Roads 143
6. Pitch-Synchronous Granular Synthesis
G. De Poli and A. Piccialli 187
III. PHYSICAL MODEL REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSICAL SIGNALS 221
Overview
G. De Poli 223
7. The Physical Model: Modeling and Simulating the
Instrumental Universe
J. Florens and C. Cadoz 227
8. The Missing Link: Modal Synthesis
J. M. Adrien 269
9. Synthesizing Singing
J. Sundberg 299
IV. ARCHITECTURES AND OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS OF
MUSICAL SIGNALS 321
Overview
C. Roads 323
10. Music, Signals, and Representations: A Survey
Garnett 325
11. An Object-based Representation for Digital
Audio Signals 371
12. New Generation Architectures for Music and
Sound Processing
S. Cavaliere 391
V. PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING REPRESENTATIONS
OF MUSICAL SIGNALS 413
Overview
A. Piccialli 415
13. Understanding Music Cognition: A Connectionist View
C. Lischka 417
14. Qualitative Aspects of Signal Processing Through
Dynamic Neural Networks
R. D'Autilia and F. Guerra 447
Name Index 463
Subject Index 467
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 11:16 MET
From: HENKJAN@NL.UVA.LET.ALF
Subject: New book on Computer Music, Music Cognition and AI
NEW BOOK ON COMPUTER MUSIC, MUSIC COGNITION AND AI
The research presented in "Music, Mind and Machine: Studies in Computer
Music, Music Cognition and Artificial Intelligence" by Peter Desain and
Henkjan Honing finds its basis in the fields of musicology, psychology and
computer science. Nowadays each of these domains is linked to the other in
various research disciplines. In computer music, ways to design machines to
make music are explored. In music cognition, mental processes that perceive
and apprehend music are investigated. In artificial intelligence the mind is
approached as a machine - and machines are built to learn more about the
mind.
The articles collected in this volume focus on the perception and
representation of musical time and temporal structure, commonly identified
as a research area crucial to the understanding of the complex processes that
enable us to enjoy and perform music. Most of the theories are illustrated
with small concrete computer programs. As such it could serve as a text book
for courses in the field of computer music and music cognition.
Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing have collaborated for the last seven years
at the City University, London and the Centre for Knowledge Technology,
Utrecht. They combine their different backgrounds in computer science,
psychology, and music, and share a fascination with the computational
modelling approach to music perception and performance. Peter Desain
currently works on rhythm perception at the University of Nijmegen,
Henkjan Honing does research on the formalisation of musical knowledge at
the University of Amsterdam.
CONTENTS
I. Overview
Introduction
Tempo curves considered harmful
II. Perception
The quantization problem: traditional and connectionist approaches
Quantization of musical time: a connectionist approach
A connectionist and a traditional AI quantizer, symbolic
versus sub-symbolic models of rhythm perception
A (de)composable theory of rhythm perception
Autocorrelation and the study of musical expression
III. Representation
Issues in the representation of time and structure in music
Time functions function best as functions of multiple times
Towards a calculus for expressive timing in music
IV. Methodology
Lisp as a second language: functional aspects
Parsing the Parser, a case study in programming style
LOCO: a composition microworld in logo
POCO: an environment for analysing, modifying, and generating
expression in music
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From: rower@acf3.nyu.edu (Robert Rowe)
Subject: Book Announcement: Interactive Music Systems
Date: 28 Oct 92 21:43:55 GMT
Interactive Music Systems
Machine Listening and Composing
Robert Rowe
For the growing number of professionals in computer music -- composers,
performers, and teachers -- who are looking for more from the computer
music systems that are now available, _Interactive Music Systems_ provides
the first comprehensive survey and evaluation of new computer programs that
can analyze and compose music in live performance.
Although Rowe focuses primarily on musical motivations and possibilities of
interactive systems, he also takes up such practical considerations as how
to build, analyze, and extend these systems, and he looks at the impact of
music theory, music cognition, and artificial intelligence on the design of
interactive systems and on ensemble performance. He describes in detail
both the theory and practice of his own real-time interactive music
program, Cypher, and further illustrates basic concepts and characteristic
issues using the graphic MIDI programming environment Max.
In a concluding chapter, Rowe assesses developments in hardware and
software with implications for the evolution of interactive systems,
including their implementation in multiple-processor environments, the
impact of real-time digital signal processing, and extended prospects for
sensing performance gesture.
Interactive Music Systems CD-ROM This supplement to Interactive Music
Systems contains audio and program examples that document a variety of
systems and the music they produce. An extensive library of Macintosh
software allows the user to experiment with or adapt existing interactive
systems. Some parts of the library require the presence of underlying
software environments, such as SmallTalk, LISP, or Opcode's Max language.
The program discussed most extensively in the text, Robert Rowe's Cypher,
will run on any Macintosh computer with no additional software required.
Both the book ($35) and the CD-ROM ($19.95) can be ordered from The MIT
Press/55 Hayward Street/Cambridge, MA 02142/ USA
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 10:42:21 -0400
From: laske@edu.bu.cs (Otto Laske)
Subject: Understanding Music with AI
Dear Colleagues,
UMAI, "Understanding Music with AI" has appeared at the
AAAI Press, distributed by The MIT Press. Its ISBN is 0-262-52170-9
Ballup. It has a foreword by Marvin Minsky, and comprises 21
chapters on music cognition and cognitive musicology.
Otto Laske
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Machine Models of Music
From Minsky to Mozart
edited by Stephan Schwanauer and David Levitt
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993
ISBN 0-262-19319-1 $45
Machine Models of Music brings together representative models ranging from
Mozart's "Musical Dice Game" to a classical article by Marvin Minksy and
current research to illustrate the rich impact that artificial intelligence
has had on the understanding and composition of traditional music and to
demonstrate the ways in which music can push the boundaries of traditional AI
research.
The authors include prominent figures in linguistics (Johan Sundberg,
Ray Jackendoff), computer science and AI (Fred Brooks, Marvin Minsky,
Terry Winograd, Herbert Simon, Peter Neumann), music theory (Allen
Forte), composition (Fred Lerdahl, Charles Ames), psychoacoustics
(Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Jamshed Bharucha), and the odd middle
ground of "computer music" (James Moorer, Hiller and Isaacson).
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Title: Electronic musician.
Publisher: [Oklahoma City, OK : Polyphony Pub. Co., c1985-
Subjects: Electronic music--Periodicals.
Previous Title: Polyphony 0163-4534 (DLC)sn 78002183 (OCoLC)4380626
ISSN: 0884-4720
Internet: emeditorial@pan.com
For subscription requests, magazine contributions, and letters to the editor.
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Title: Keyboard.
Publisher: [Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Music Industry Publications]
Subjects: Keyboard instruments--Periodicals.
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Title: Keyboard.
Publisher: [Cupertino, Calif. : GPI Publications], c1981-
Publisher: Vol. 7, no. 7 (July 1981)-
Previous Title: Contemporary keyboard 0361-5820 (DLC) 76641315
(OCoLC)2246955
ISSN: 0730-0158
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Title: Computer music journal
IMPR.: Cambridge, MA
ISBN: 0148-9267
---------------------- DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ----------------------
"Discrete-Time Signal Processing"
Allan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1989
SERIES: Prentice Hall signal processing series
ISBN: 0-13-216771-9
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C LANGUAGE ALGORITHMS FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Paul M. Embree and Bruce Kimble
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990
xvi + 456 pp. + diskette. Price $44.00, 480pp.
ISBN 13-133406-9
The book includes introductory chapters into DSP, programming tips for
style and efficiency, chapters on filtering, FFT, image processing.
All code in the text is included on the diskette (MS-DOS).
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Introductory Digital Signal Processing
with Computer Applications
by Paul A. Lynn & Wolfgang Fuerst
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Copyright 1989, latest reprint January 1992
ISBN 0-471-91564-5
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First Principles of Discrete Systems and Digital Signal Processing
by Robert D. Strum and Donald E. Kirk
ISBN: 0-201-09518-1
Addison-Wesley 1988
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"PC-DSP" by Oktay Alkin (Prentice-Hall
1990, ISBN 0-13-655200-5). This book is essentially a user's manual
for the accompanying software package.
Here is an interactive software package for performing common digital
signal processing design and analysis calculations quickly and easily.
Within PC-DSP's menu-driven environment, you can generate, analyze, and
process data without needing to remember command syntax.
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Title: Digital processing of signals / Bernard Gold and Charles M.
Rader, with chapters by Alan V. Oppenheim and Thomas G.
Stockham, Jr.
Publ: Malabar, Fla. : Krieger, 1983, c1969.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill,
1969. (Lincoln Laboratory publications)
Subjects: Signal processing--Digital techniques.
ISBN: 0-89874-548-9