Preface

This book was written for my introductory course in digital audio signal processing, which I have given at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) since 1984. The course was created primarily as a first course in digital signal processing for entering Music Ph.D. students in the Computer Based Music Theory and Acoustics program. Due to the nature of CCRMA research, this book will emphasize audio and music applications, although the material on the subject of digital filters itself is not specific to audio or music. A recommended co-requisite is [84], which contains a more detailed development of the mathematics of signals and spectra in the discrete-time case. A shorter precursor to this book was published in [79].

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Subsections

• Outline
• Book Series Overview
• Acknowledgments
• Errata

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.