Prerequisite: Music 171
Textbook: none
Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:20-3:40 in Mandeville B206
Instructor: Professor Miller Puckette , CRCA room 7, 858-534-4823, msp@ucsd.edu, https://msp.ucsd.edu/
Office Hours: Mandeville B206, after class
TA: Momilani Ramstrum, mramstrum@ucsd.edu

This is a continuation of Music 171, but using the Pd program instead of Max/MSP. Pd is free and you can run it on Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX. Get it at https://www.msp.ucsd.edu/software.html .

Classes and asignments will be handled much as they were in Music 171. We plan to assign five exercises, a midterm and a final.

Preliminary list of topics (about one per week):

1. amplitudes and frequencies, controls and signals

2. wavetable oscillators and samples

3. sequencers and envelope generators

4. PWM and filtering

5. Graphics in Pd using GEM

6. delays and delay effects

7. amplitude and frequency modulation

8. nonlinear techniques and waveshaping

9. control techniques: analysis tools

10. control techniques: timing