MP 3330 - Sound Design II: Creative DSP

Credits: 3

In this junior-level production course, students will apply critical listening skills to sculpt and transform sounds using digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. Through instructor demonstrations, technical lectures and readings about processing techniques, applied creative exercises, and critical listening and analysis training, students will learn to distinguish between processing effects, engage with stylistic conventions for applying effects, and utilize the software tools necessary to design sounds using DSP. Students will transform sounds using spectral, dynamic, modulation, granulation, and spatial processing techniques and demonstrate technical and creative skills through the production of sound libraries, audio effect software presets, and short composition projects.

Prerequisites: MP 2330 - Sound Design I: Synthesis

Course Learning Outcomes:

Create sounds based on listening, analysis tools, and knowledge of DSP techniques and control parameters.
Evaluate historical conventions for effects processing in various music styles.
Justify musical application of particular audio effects.