Course detail
Electronic Musical Instruments
FEKT-BPC-HELAcad. year: 2018/2019
he course focuses on analogue and digital synthesis of audio signals, analogue and digital communication interfaces in music electronics, principles and structure of electronic musical instruments and samplers and their individual parts, and file formats for the transfer of musical information. Laboratory exercises are focused on working with hardware and software analog modelling synthesizers, samplers and other types of electronic musical instruments and the principles of sound signals synthesis in Reaktor software. Part of the laboratory exercises is the realization of own synthesizer in the Reaktor software.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- describe hardware and data transfer of analog and digital communication interface in musical electronics
- describe the structure of the analog modelling instrument and sampler
- explain the principle of the keyboard of electronic musical instrument, wind and string controllers and special control elements,
- design the structure of the digital electronic musical instrument for the given method of synthesis
- implement a software electronic music instrument using function blocks
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Lectures provide the explanation of basic principles, subject methodology, examples of problems and their solutions.
- Laboratory exercises support practical mastering of themes presented in lectures. Active participation of students is required.
Participation at lectures is recommended. Participation at other ways of instruction is checked.
Course is taking advantage of e-learning (Moodle) system.
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Course curriculum
2.Electromechanical musical instruments
3. Linear synthesis of audio signals, additive and subtraction methods
4. Non-linear synthesis of audio signals, shaping and modulation methods
5. Digital synthesis, digital oscillators and wavetable methods
6. Granular synthesis, methods of hybrid synthesis
7. Mathematical and physical modeling of musical instruments
8. Analog and digital communication interfaces in music electronics, CV / Trig interface, MIDI
9. Electronic musical instrument, virtual analog synthesizer
10. Samplers, real-time pitch shifting, vertical and horizontal zones
11. Polyphonic and multitimbral musical instruments
12. Keyboard of electronic musical instrument, wind and string controllers, principles of special control elements
13. Standard file formats for music information transfer
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