Programming Digital Media

Examples for Programming Digital Media class at Louisiana State University, Spring 2019

• email: tcarso2@lsu.edu
• Office hours: 1pm to 3pm Monday in the Digital Media Center (2006)

Lectures

• 2-12-19 - Web audio basics and sound file players - slides, textbook
• 2-14-19 - Ading effects and intro to synthesis - slides, textbook
• 2-19-19 - Making synthesizers from scratch - slides
• 2-21-19 - Scheduling signals and LFOs - slides
• 2-25-19 - Instruments and Sequencers - slides, textbook
• 2-28-19 - Sound Effects and Sequencers - slides
• 3-6-19 - Rhythm / Scales / Tuning / Distributed smartphone music - slides

Resources

slides

Tone.js

Basics

• Tone.js Github - main repository
• Tone.js API - documentation
• Tone.js Wiki - covers a few things not explained in the API, ex. Time, envelopes
• Tone.js Google Group - ask a question here if you can't get it answered in class
• PDM Online Textbook - in development for highschool class but covers all necessary material

Extras

• Interactive Presets - use to experiment and find new sounds, do not copy presets from here else you add something unique to them.
• Make music with Tone - some tutorials for making more traditional music with Tone
• tone-rhythm - very helpful for making musical phrases with tone
  • Ex. Maria - play Maria with tone. This requires knowledge of importing from npm with the 'import' keyword. It will not work with a script tag.
• Algorithmic Music Tutorial - uses p5 sound but many of the creative ideas are transferable to Tone.js

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Inspiration

• Hackpact - Algorithmic audiovisual sonification studies

Digital Audio

• Digital Sound and Music - explanations and definitions of all things digital sound

JS Basics

Still having trouble with some basics?

• freeCodeCamp
• codecademy
• MDN web docs Javascript - includes some tutorials and the standard javascript reference
• stackoverflow - find answers or ask questions to javacript related things.