Synthesis Theory II: Recommended Readings

Cook, Perry. Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications. Natick, Massachusetts: A.K. Peters; 2002. ISBN 1--56881-168-3. website: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/AKPetersBook.htm (errata)

Introduction to physical modeling.

Serra, Xavier "Musical Sound Modeling With Sinusoids Plus Noise" in Musical Signal Processing. Edited by C. Roads, S. Pope, A. Picialli, and G. De Poli. Swets & Zeitlinger: 1997. Online at: http://www.iua.upf.es/~xserra/articles/msm

Introduction to the theory behind Spectral Modeling Synthesis.

Smith, Julius Digital Waveguide Modeling of Musical Instruments. Draft. http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/waveguide.

Mathematical theory of physical modeling.

Verplank, Bill, Max Mathews and Robert Shaw. Scanned Synthesis. ICMC 2000, Berlin. http://www.billverplank.com/ScannedSynthesis.PDF [local].