Numbers and Notes: An Introduction to Musical Signal Processing

Numbers and Notes: An Introduction to Musical Signal Processing is a comprehensive book on the world of digital audio. Beginning with the essential properties of acoustic waves, Numbers and Notes reveals the physics of sound in musical terms. Later chapters discuss the perception of sound, mathematics of digital audio effects, and techniques for analysis of audio. The often difficult-to-comprehend Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm is explained with music in mind, and many musical applications of the FFT are described here. Two appendices discuss the design of analog, frequency-dependent circuits and how to compute their transfer functions, as well as coding examples of computing the FFT in Mathematica, Matlab, and C.

Both seasoned DSP engineers and budding musicians with an interest in music software have something to look forward to in Numbers and Notes.