Introduction and background

 

Those of us who have an interest in digital sound processing in its various spheres — music technology, studio systems, multimedia — are witnessing the dawning of a new age. The opportunities for our own involvement in the expansion and development of sound transformation, musical performance and composition are quite unprecedented.

These opportunities are brought about by the rapid growth in the availability of competent technology in the form of powerful personal computers equipped with specialised sound-processing units. This technology is supported by software of ever-increasing sophistication, providing access for the ‘man in the street’ to sound processing operations which hitherto were the domain of the specialist ...

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