- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (5 Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0805316841
- ISBN-13: 978-0805316841
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 698,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book by Ken Steiglitz is directed to the new market of DSP users brought about by the development of powerful and inexpensive software tools to analyze signals. These new tools allow sophisticated manipulation of signals but do not provide an understanding of the theory or the foundation for the techniques. This easy-to-understand introduction develops an intuitive approach to the development of the mathematics of DSP and uses examples from areas of the spectrum familiar to beginners together with thought provoking questions and suggested experiments.
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This new book by Ken Steigliz offers an informal and easy-to-understand introduction to digital signal processing, emphasizing digital audio and applications to computer music. A DSP Primer covers important topics such as phasors and tuning forks; the wave equation; sampling and quantizing; feedforward and feedback filters; comb and string filters; periodic sounds; transform methods; and filter design. Steiglitz uses an intuitive and qualitative approach to develop the mathematics critical to understanding DSP.
A DSP Primer is written for a broad audience including:
- Students of DSP in Engineering and Computer Science courses.
- Composers of computer music and those who work with digital sound.
- WWW and Internet developers who work with multimedia.
- General readers interested in science that want an introduction to DSP.
Features:
- Offers a simple and uncluttered step-by-step approach to DSP for first-time users, especially beginners in computer music.
- Designed to provide a working knowledge and understanding of frequency domain methods, including FFT and digital filtering.
- Contains thought-provoking questions and suggested experiments that help the reader to understand and apply DSP theory and techniques.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those of us who aren't especially mathematically inclined this is a great introduction to the world of Digital Signal Processing.
As it says in the title this primer focuses on applications to digital audio and computer music, so if you're looking for more of a 'general-purpose' guide to DSP then you might look elsewhere. However if you need to learn the basics of sounds, transforms and filters then this book is for you!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A beginners book on DSP which explains some basic DSP concepts in plain Engish, rather than going into the the maths.
The main focus is DSP from the music perspective and covers comb filters, tuned string filters and Fast Fourier Transform.
Strengths: A straightforward getting started book.
Weaknesses: No applications code. Does not cover adaptive filtering or the bi-linear transform. Would later need to purchase a reference book.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Accessible DSP Text geared for those interested in audio
19 Dec 2005
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This is a different kind of digital signal processing textbook in just about every way. To begin with, chapter one starts out talking about sinusoids in the context of tuning forks, when just about every other DSP book under the sun starts with a review of linear systems. This is good, in that throughout the book your eye is kept on the ball of actual audio applications. This can be somewhat troublesome in that the author sometimes has to delve into mathematics that the typical DSP student may not be ready for - the wave equation and elementary partial differential equations for example. The author ultimately does get the job done, however, explaining the DFT, FFT, z-transform, and filter design all within the context of audio signals. It is true that only the last chapter is explicitly labeled "Audio and Musical Applications". However, this only means that the author is discussing complex applications in this chapter only, after the groundwork has been laid for all of the theory. I would especially recommend this book to people interested in computer music that need to get up to speed on DSP. Such students may also appreciate "DSP Filter Cookbook" by John Lane. It is all about the implementation of audio filters and contains C++ source code and schematics. If you are a traditional student of DSP and digital audio does not interest you, you might want to go a more traditional route starting out with "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Lyon and proceeding on to a more advanced text such as "Discrete Time Signal Processing" by Oppenheimer or "Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications" by Proakis.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Great DSP intro w/ good math coverage
4 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
As a mechanical engineer who is working more and more often with DSP-based control systems, this book served me as a great refresher course. It was perfect for me because it covers all the necessary math, but doesn't get into a lot of nitty-gritty proofs.
I was sort of put off by the subtitle "with Applications to Digital Audio and Computer Music" because I'm more interested in designing DSP-based control systems than music, but I was not disappointed. Everything the author presents is of utility in designing feedback control systems as well (although he doesn't necessarily point this out), and his writing style is extremely engaging and lucid. His enthusiasm actually makes the book fun to read, despite the highly technical subject.
I'm now able to chunk together some pretty cool systems using Matlab, Simulink, and the knowledge I picked up in A Digital Signal Processing Primer.
(Caveat: this book will probably not be of much help to non-engineers or to people who don't much like math. It's *not* a book about how to make cool noises with your computer.)
23 of 28 people found the following review helpful
good DSP primer, needed more on the audio/music applications
5 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
I bought this expecting a thourough primer for audio software development (soft realtime signal generation, filtering, many examples, some code). Nope. Just calculus. It reads very well, it is a great book, but it does not show you how to implement using software or even pseudocode.
For easy fun-to-read coverage on theoretical DSP, and for a small taste of DSP with respect to audio (1 small chapter), this book is five stars.
Since it wasn't what I needed (jeez, who does make a book like what I want anyway? I want to write a modular synth in software, lots of FX, filters, etc..), I give it only 3 stars.. :(
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