Synthesis Theory - Chapter 1
Digital Audio Concepts
- Background: History of Digital Audio Recording
- Basics of Sound Signals
- Frequency and Amplitude
- Time-domain Representation
- Frequency-domain Representation
- Phase
- Importance of Phase
- Analog Representation of Sound
- Digital Representation of Sound
- Analog-to-digital Conversion
- Binary Numbers
- Digital-to-analog Conversion
- Digital Audio Recording versus MIDI Recording
- Sampling
- Reconstruction of the Analog Signal
- Aliasing (Foldover)
- The Sampling Theorem
- Ideal Sampling Frequency
- Antialiasing and Anti-imaging Filters
- Phase Correction
- Quantization
- Quantization Noise
- Low-level Quantization Noise and Dither
- Converter Linearity
- Dynamic Range of Digital Audio
- Decibels
- Dynamic Range of a Digital System
- Oversampling
- Multiple-bit Oversampling Converters
- 1-bit Oversampling Converters
- Digital Audio Media
- Synthesis and Signal Processing
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