Audio Software Design

4.0 credits

In this course, students will develop skills for designing audio/music applications and creating computer music in C and Max. We will begin with the history of computer music, a survey of audio programming languages, and a review of C. Libsndfile, a C library for reading and writing sound files, will be used to explore topics in sound synthesis, analysis, and digital signal processing. Students will use PortAudio, a C library for real-time audio input/output, to design DSP applications. Max is a visual programming language for interactive audio/music and multimedia. Students are required to watch pre-recorded lectures to learn Max and attend recitations for reviews. They will also practice their programming techniques through a series of programming assignments, a midterm drum machine project in Max, and a final research/design project.