Part I · Chapters 1–9
Wavetable Synthesis
How Synthesis Problems Created DSP Concepts
Follow the instrument problems that made modern synthesis mathematics necessary.
- 01Available nowRead
Electrical Tone and the Harmonic Idea
Harmonics, additive synthesis, spectra, and the Telharmonium.
- 02Available nowRead
Making Electronic Oscillation Performable
LC oscillation, heterodyning, gesture, and articulation.
- 03Available nowRead
When the Studio Became the Instrument
Fixed sound, tape editing, signal chains, modulation, and stored control.
- 04Available nowRead
Voltage Control and Modular Thinking
Control and audio rate, envelopes, LFOs, patch graphs, and subtractive synthesis.
- 05Available nowRead
Sound from Numbers
Sampling, PCM, Nyquist, quantization, buffers, and computational signal graphs.
- 06Planned in Part I
The Stored-Waveform Oscillator
Table lookup, phase accumulation, frequency increment, and wrap.
- 07Planned in Part I
Reading Between Stored Samples
Periodic interpolation, guard samples, reconstruction error, memory, and CPU.
- 08Planned in Part I
Fourier Analysis Becomes a Construction Tool
Fourier series, transforms, leakage, windows, and spectral construction.
- 09Planned in Part I
Why Early Digital Oscillators Sounded Digital
Aliasing, fold maps, discontinuities, quantization, and measurement.