Chapter 6

The audio quantization -law is described in the web page

http://www.epanorama.net/documents/telecom/ulaw_alaw.html

A discussion of the use of FM to create synthetic sound is at

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mphoenix/dss/dss.html

An extensive list of audio file formats is available in

http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/info/AudioFormats/

CD audio file formats are somewhat different. The main music format is called "red book audio." A good description of various CD formats is at

http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/info/MultimediaInfo/Info/cd.html

For a DVD audio FAQ, see:

www.digitalaudioguide.com/faq/dvd-audio/faq_2.htm

A General MIDI Instrument Patch Map can be found at URL

http://www.midistudio.com/Help/GMSpecs_Patches.htm

and a General MIDI Percussion Key Map is at

http://midistudio.com/Help/GMSpecs_PercMap.htm

A good tutorial on MIDI and wavetable music synthesis is linked from

http://kingfisher.cms.shu.ac.uk/midi/main_p.htm

A link to a java program for decoding MIDI streams

http://www.jsresources.org/examples/index.html

And a good source for locating internet sound/music materials is

http://d4.dir.scd.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/multimedia/audio/

A neat guide + code to programming MIDI -- parsing MIDI files and using MIDI events is

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/MIDI_Star.aspx

Prof. Barry Truax is an expert on electronic music. His acoustics handbook is at

http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/index.html

This site includes a good search engine on sound, as well.

Finally, an excellent all-around resource on sound generally, including a great deal of information on definitions of terms, signal processing, and sound perception is the performing-arts oriented site at

http://www.sfu.ca/sca/Manuals/ZAAPf/i/index.html