Music software development specials

General information 2024-2025

• MMus 1, 2 and BAT year 4
• Main topics: Systems design and programming, DSP, AI

Possible subjects

Systems design

• programming languages and tools (including IDEs, frameworks...)
• design methods and tools
• hardware and tools
• using AI for coding and hardware design
• debugging
• documenting
• application domains of languages and tools
• plugins and plugin hosts

DSP

• Data sonification
• Audio fingerprinting (Shazam)
• Audio watermarking (Rights protection)
• (Polyphonic) pitch detection
• Pitch envelope
• Timbre analysis
• Onset detection
• Tempo extraction
• Tempo envelope
• Rhythm detection
• Physical modeling
• Additive synthesis
• Instrument discrimination
• Transformation (input -> output), filtering, effects
• Synthesis
• Plugins
• Use of AI in DSP

DSP tools

• Sonic Visualiser
• Matlab / Open Octave
• Essentia
• Jupyter (Python)
• AI/machine learning

AI and machine learning

• Myths and Merits of AI
• generative AI vs controlling AI
• AI tools
• AI approaches
• building NN architectures from scratch