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- explain basic analog and digital methods audio signals synthesis,
- describe hardware and data transfer of analog and digital communication interface in musical electronics
- describe the structure of the analog modelling instrument and sampler
- explain the principle of the keyboard of electronic musical instrument, wind and string controllers and special control elements,
- design the structure of the digital electronic musical instrument for the given method of synthesis
- implement a software electronic music instrument using function blocks

The knowledge of basic laws and quantities in electrical circuits is required as well as the knowledge of the characteristics of electric circuit elements, circuit behaviour with inertia elements, periodical and non-periodical signal spectra, continuous- and discrete-time systems. The student who enrols on the course should be able to use instruments for the measurement of electrical voltage, waveform generators and oscilloscopes.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in article 7 of the BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
- Lectures provide the explanation of basic principles, subject methodology, examples of problems and their solutions.
- Laboratory exercises support practical mastering of themes presented in lectures. Active participation of students is required.
Participation at lectures is recommended. Participation at other ways of instruction is checked.
Course is taking advantage of e-learning (Moodle) system.

Evaluation of study results follows the Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT and the Dean's Regulation complementing the Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT. Up to 20 points are awarded for correct results and elaboration of all laboratory exercises and 20 points for designing own synthesizer in the Reaktor software. The minimal scope of the elaboration of particular laboratory exercises and complementary questions are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantor of the course and updated for every academic year. Up to 40 points are given for the final written examination and it is necessary to get at least 15 points for its successful completion. Up to 20 points are awarded for the final oral examination which consists of 10 groups of questions according to the course syllabus.

1. History of musical electronics
2.Electromechanical musical instruments
3. Linear synthesis of audio signals, additive and subtraction methods
4. Non-linear synthesis of audio signals, shaping and modulation methods
5. Digital synthesis, digital oscillators and wavetable methods
6. Granular synthesis, methods of hybrid synthesis
7. Mathematical and physical modeling of musical instruments
8. Analog and digital communication interfaces in music electronics, CV / Trig interface, MIDI
9. Electronic musical instrument, virtual analog synthesizer
10. Samplers, real-time pitch shifting, vertical and horizontal zones
11. Polyphonic and multitimbral musical instruments
12. Keyboard of electronic musical instrument, wind and string controllers, principles of special control elements
13. Standard file formats for music information transfer

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The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the operation principle and use of analog and digital music electronics.

It is obligatory to work through all laboratory exercises in regular or alternative terms and design own software synthesizer to complete the course. Other forms of checked instruction are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantor of the course and updated for every academic year.

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Forró, D., MIDI - komunikace v hudbě. Grada, Praha 1993. (CS)
Russ, M., Sound Synthesis and Sampling. Focsal Press, 1996. ISBN 0-240-51429-7 (EN)
SHEPARD, Brian K. Refining sound: a practical guide to synthesis and synthesizers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, xxv, 237 stran. ISBN 978-0199922963 (CS)
Sýkora, R., Krutílek, F., Včelař, J., Elektronické hudební nástroje a jejich obvody. SNTL, Praha, 1981. (CS)

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