MUMT 307: Final Projects

Example projects for this course could involve:

modular Max/MSP, Chuck or Pd patches for sound synthesis
implementation of sound synthesis or digital effects (ex., reverberation) algorithms using Max/MSP, STK, Chuck, Matlab or an audio plugin environment
implementation of effects or synthesis algorithms on a microcontroller or in a browser using the Unity or Web Audio APIs
a STFT-based audio processing scheme

Project presentations and reports should include:

a quick summary of your objectives / motivation
the project design / methodology
particular issues that proved challenging / rewarding
example usage / demo
clear citations for tools or resources used that were created by others

As well, all code or patches developed for the project should be linked to the report for download. If your project involves hardware or software not used in the course, you should provide a short video demonstration. Grading will be based on:

presentation (5%): organization, clarity, description of the motivation and general methodology for the project, demonstration of example usage or results
web write-up (5%): well documented / organized, grammatically correct, describes methodology, must cite tools or resources developed by others, discuss problematic issues, contributions, possible improvements or future work
research and/or development (10%): appropriateness of approach, quality of results, scope, diligence, effort

Some example past projects include:

Paul Buser	TinySynth
Jiali Cheng:	Modal Synthesis of the Handpan Sound
Corinee Darche	Implementation of Linear Predictive Coding for Speech Synthesis
Maxwell Gentili-Morin:	Bucket Brigade Device Modeling
Ian Grenville:	Recreating Common Digital Distortion Effects
Adam Gyuris:	Guitar Amplifier Simulator
Margaret Hopkins:	Flugelhorn Additive Synthesis
Yifan Huang:	Formant-Wave-Function Synthesis
Albert Niyonsenga:	Trombone UnMuter
Eto Sun:	Coneko: A Simple Convolution Reverb Plugin