Midterm Exam Review Topics
Note that exam questions will be based on 1) Readings you've done from Music and Computers (Chapters 1-4), 2) Viewing and Listening assignments meant to enrich our understanding of the course material, and 3) HW Assignments 1 - 3. Below is a full list of the material.
- Sound and Timbre
- Amplify, Amplitude, Attack, Attenuate, Audification, Auditory icons/earcons, Auditory display, Auditory System, Auralize, Base-2 Log Perception, Basilar membrane, Compressions, Decay, Eardrum, Envelope, Fletcher-Munson Curves, Frame, Frequency, Intensity, Perception, Period, Pitch Pressure Equilibrium, Psychophysical, Psychoacoustic, Rarefactions, Resonance, Sound Wave, Sonification, Sustain, Transposition, Tone, Transducer, Transposition
- Digital Representation of Sound
- Aliasing, Analog Function, Analog to Digital Converter, Audio Filtering, Band-limited waveforms, Compression, Digital to Analog Converter, Foldover, Function, Low-pass filter, Non-band-limited waveforms, Nyquist Frequency, Nyquist Sampling Theorem, Passband, Perceptual Encoding, Quantization, Redundancy Elimination, Sampling, Sampling Rate, Sampling Resolution, Staircasing, Stairsteps, Time Series, Undersampling, µ-law
- The Frequency Domain
- Frequency Domain, Lower Envelope, Melograms/Melographs, Peak Envelope, Phase Shift, Phasors, Root Mean Squared, Running Average Envelope, Time Domain Waveform, Upper Envelope
- FFT
- Aperiodic Sounds, Fast Fourier Transform, Fourier Analysis, Fourier Coefficients, Fourier Expansion, Fourier Synthesis, Fourier’s Theorem, Frequency Bands/Bins, Fundamental Frequency, Harmonics, Nonperiodic Sounds, Overtones, Partial Frequency, Periodic Function, Spectral Components
- Sound Synthesis
- Additive Synthesis, Filter, Noise, Phase Increment, Pink Noise, Red Noise, Sample values, Sound Synthesis, White Noise
- Filters & Formants
- Band Pass Filter, Band Reject Filter, Center Frequency, Comb Filter, Cutoff Band, Delays, Filter, FIR Filters, Formant Synthesis, Formants, Half Power Point, High Pass Filter, IIR Filters, Low Pass Filter, Notch Filter, Passband, Resonance, Resonant Structure, Sound/Tone Sculpting, Stopband, Subtractive Synthesis, Transition Band
- Modulation & Waveshaping
- Amplitude Modulation, Carrier Wave, Chebyshev Polynomials, Demodulation, Frequency Modulation, Fuzz Box, Granular Synthesis, Modulated Signals, Modulating Wave, Modulation, Oscillator, Physical Modeling, Sampled Grains, Sidebands, Sinusoidal Grains, Sound Bursts/Grains, Sound Clouds, Table-based Waveshaping, Transfer Function, Tremolo, Vibrato, Waveshape, Waveshaping
- Web Audio
- <audio>, Loading, Scheduling, Filtering, & Playing Sounds with WebAudio, AudioContext, AudioNode, AudioParam, BiquadFilterNode, BufferLoader, GainNode, VolumeSample, XMLHttpRequest
- Audacity (of course)
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