Audio Anecdotes II: Tools, Tips, and
Techniques for Digital Audio (v. 2)
A Superb Reference, Resource, And Research Tool
This collection of articles provides practical and relevant tools, tips, and
techniques for those working in the digital audio field. Volume II, with
contributions from experts in their fields, includes articles on: Field
recording
Synthesis
Signal processing - Spatialization - Computer techniques & tools - Music
theory - Sound design
Sound in nature
An enclosed CD-ROM provides demos, source code, and examples.
Audio Anecdotes is an invaluable tool for anyone who uses digital sound in
the creation of computer-generated works: Musicians

Game developers
Sound producers, and others
Personal Review: Audio Anecdotes II: Tools, Tips, and
Techniques for Digital Audio (v. 2)
Like Greenbaum's previous work in this series, this book is packed full of
articles on all phases of audio processing and synthesis. It is to the audio
processing world what the "Graphics Gems" series is/was to the graphics
programming world. Continuing the tradition from the first volume, this
volume presents additional processing techniques, explores new areas,
and teaches some basic concepts.
The book begins with a section of tips on how to make good recordings in
various environments. The next section goes into the technicalities of
sound synthesis, more precisely oscillator control and subtractive
synthesis. Section 3 is a continuation from Volume 1, in that it continues
with a discussion of basic signal processing operators like filters and
transforms. A particularly interesting paper in this section is the concluding
chapter, on integer arithmetic-based fast Fourier transforms.Section 4 is
about spatialization. It doesn't exactly reveal what happens inside your
Sennheiser Toltec processor, but it covers the basic ideas. Low-level must-
know techniques, such as circular FIFOs and framing, are covered in some
detail in section 5. Section 6 presents some popular tools, such as the SoX
library,which is the swiss army knife of sound processing programs, and
the wonderful synthesis toolkit by Perry Cook which is featured in his own
book, "Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications". It was a surprise
to see a page on the QED package. QEDesign is an easy-to-use, multi-
platform advanced digital filter design package. It is completely menu-
driven and user intuitive, affording almost a non-existent start-up and
learning curve. it is neither unique nor the best, but it's just a page out of
the entire book. Music theory is the topic of section 7. This may be a
foreign language for many engineers, as well as a foreign approach. For
example, the authors explain what consonance and dissonance are, and
how they fit in the sound scale, but there is no discussion of what
physically happens, or, to be more precise, what psycho-physically
happens. Auditory displays and auditory feedback are central to section 8,
on sound design. The final section, section 9, reads almost like a Scientific
American article on sounds in nature. It is very instructive. A very useful
glossary of audio terminology concludes the book.
I highly recommend this book as a supplemental reference to anyone
involved in the fascinating world of audio processing. However,this is really
not for recording engineers, as there is much mathematics, signal
processing, programming, and even some music theory involved.
I notice that Amazon does not show the table of contents, so I do that here:
Preface ix
Introduction xiii
1. Field Recording 1

A Quick Field Recording Primer for the Adventurous Sound Effects
Recordist Mike Caviezel 3
Holding on for Dear Life: Recording the Automobile Mike Caviezel 13
A Brief Introduction to Binaural Recording Gordon Hempton Ken
Greenebaum 23
2. Synthesis 27
Ambient Synthesis with Random Sound Fields Hesham Fouad 29
Band Limited Oscillators Using Wave Table Synthesis Phil Burk 37
Subtractive Synthesis without Filters John Lazzaro John Wawrzynek 55
3. Signal Processing 65
Finite Impulse Response Filters Stuart Allman 67
Infinite Impulse Response Filters Stuart Allman 79
Replacing Analog Filters with DSP by Using the Bilinear Transform
Stuart Allman 93
Floating Point Fast Fourier Transform Hal Chamberlin 101
Fast Fourier Transform Using Integer Math Hal Chamberlin 127
4. Spatialization 141
Spatialization with Stereo Loudspeakers Hesham Fouad 143
Spatialization with Multiple Loudspeakers Ville Pulkki 159
5. Computer Techniques 173
No Need to Shout: Volume Controls and the Digital Sound
Convergence Ken Greenebaum 175
Count in Frames! (Not Samples or Bytes) Ken Greenebaum 183
Introduction to the Ring Buffer FIFO Queue Ken Greenebaum 193
Wrapped I/O Ken Greenebaum 209
6. Computer Tools 225
SoX Sound Exchange Library Chris Bagwell 227
The Synthesis ToolKit (STK) in C++ Perry R. Cook Gary Scavone 237
The QEDesign Filter Design Package Chris Bore 255
7. Music Theory 257
Basic Music Theory: Notation, Scales, and Chords Benjamin
Tomassetti 259
Basic Music Theory: Rhythm and Meter Benjamin Tomassetti 289
8. Sound Design 303
Designing the Auditory Narrative: A Methodology for Sound Design
Maribeth J. Back 305
Sound as Information: An Introduction to Auditory Display Rob Tannen
329
Auditory Feedback for Computer Devices Linda A. Roberts Cynthia A.
Sikora 341
9. Nature 361
Brainwave Entrainment through Binaural Sound Jeffrey Thompson 363
Introduction to Bioacoustics Jeffrey Greenebaum 375
Glossary of Audio Terms 395
Contributor Biographies 429
Index
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