Chapter 2: Creating Digital Music Outline

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 After finishing this chapter you are responsible for being able to describe, define, and compare these concepts:
LabVIEW LAB OBJECTIVES
A. FIRST Engineering Problem: Create digital music using LabVIEW block functions. These are the Chapter 2 Labs (L2.x).

           1. Understand first hand how working with block diagrams allows one to make simple blocks do complex things.
             2. Manipulate and control the parameters of blocks within worksheets
             3. Any LabVIEW labs modified or altered in lab and saved to your flash drive will be uploaded to the Google Groups for our class and named according to the standard convention.

a. Connect blocks by locating input and output links on blocks

b. Change block properties through the use of right mouse

c. Show an ability to do basic trouble shooting on the DSK board setup and cabling.
B. Know and distinguish between the various methods of creating digital music:
            1. Sound Synthesis
            2. Waveform Synthesis
            3. Physical Modeling
C. Be able to:

1.  Distinguish between analog and digital signals. Give a simple analog signal and a sample rate, be able to create a digital signal. Know the difference in the signal notation for each: s(t) vs. s[n]

2.    Given a simple periodic waveform, be able to write the appropriate sinusoid equation to represent the amplitude, frequency, and phase shift of the signal as a function of time.

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