Digital Audio Signal Processing, 3rd Edition

Preface for the Third Edition

This 3rd Edition is a revised and extended version of the book. It offers three new chapters (1, 10, and 11) and extensions on a further four chapters (5, 7, 8, and 9). The content of this book is the basis of a course on Digital Audio Signal Processing at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and a course on Multimedia Signal Processing at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. For further study, you can find lecture slides, exercises, Matlab examples, and interactive audio demonstrations on the website.

https://mydasp.com/dasp.

My thanks go to Dr. Martin Holters for the interactive audio demonstrations and maintaining the website http://www.dafx.de . Thanks also to him and Lasse Köper for their contribution to the new Chapter 10 on “Nonlinear Processing”. I would like to thank Daniel Ahlers for his contributions and updates to Chapter 5 on “Audio Processing Systems”. Purbaditya Bhattacharya and Patrick Nowak made contributions to Chapter 7 on “Room Simulation” and are mainly responsible for the new Chapter 11 on “Machine Learning for Audio”. Purbaditya Bhattacharya also made contributions to Chapter 9 on “Audio Coding”. Thanks to both of them. Finally, I would like to thank Etienne Gerat for his refinements and extensions to Chapter 8 on “Dynamic Range Control”. Last but not least, I would like to thank all participants of the lectures over all these years who have been my driving force:‐).

Udo Zölzer

Hamburg, January 2022