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0. Motivating Computer Music
1. Sound and Digital Audio
2. Synthesis and Vectorized Computation
3. Additive Synthesis
4. Scores and Timbre
5. The Frequency Domain
6. Modulation Synthesis
7. Sampling Theory
8. The Discrete Fourier Transform
9. Filters
10. Frame-based Processing
11. Sample-based Synthesis
12. Physical Modeling
13. Delay-based Effects
14. Statistical Models
15. Psychoacoustics and Tuning
16. Compression and MIDI
17. Real-time Computer Music
18. Music AI
19. Computer Music Horizons
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11. Sample-based Synthesis

11. Sample-based Synthesis#

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This chapter is planned but not yet written.

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