CCRMA@Banff Summer Workshops:

Digital signal processing methods for audio effects used in mixing and mastering will be covered. Topics include techniques for dynamic range compression, reverberation, equalization and filtering, and panning and spatialization, with attention given to digital emulation of analog processors and implementation of time varying effects. Among the effects studied will be single-band and multiband compressors, limiters, noise gates, de-essers, feedback delay network and convolutional reverberators, flangers and phasors, parametric and linear-phase equalizers, wah-wah and envelope-following filters, and the Leslie.

The course material will be presented in morning lecture sessions with afternoon laboratory exercises. The lecture sessions will concentrate on theoretical issues in the design of digital audio effects, and are complemented by laboratory work in which students will develop effects algorithms of their own design.

The course is geared for musicians and recording engineers with an engineering background and for engineers and computer scientists with an interest in music technology. An exposure to digital signal processing, including familiarity with digital filtering and the Fourier Transform is helpful. An introduction to Matlab will be provided, and the course will involve an introduction to programming DSP plugin’s as well. A modest amount of C programming experience is required for the laboratory exercises.