CS4624 Audio

Auditory Demonstrations: IPO, NIU, ASA

• Section 1. Frequency Analysis and Critical Bands
  • Cancelled Harmonics
  • Critical Bands by Masking
  • Critical Bands by Loudness Comparison
• Section 2. Sound Pressure, Power, Loudness
  • The Decibel Scale
  • Filtering Noise
  • Frequency Response of the Ear
  • Loudness Scaling
  • Temporal Integration
• Section 3. Masking
  • Asymmetry of Masking by Pulsed Tones
  • Backward and Forward Masking
  • Pulsation Threshold
• Section 4. Pitch
• Section 5. Timbre
• Section 6. Beats, Combination Tones, Distortion, Echoes
• Section 7. Binaural Effects

Miscellaneous topics

Psychoacoustics: frequency range, masking

Representing Sound Digitally: Nyquist, sampling, quantization, filtering

Processing: DSP, Editing

MIDI: instruments, their characteristics, parameters