CODING SOUND

This is the site for Coding Sound at Albright College
It's written, compiled and maintained by Mark Baldridge
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Table of Contents

• Introduction to the course
• Lesson 01: Hello Tone
• Lesson 02: Music Box
• Lesson 03: Effects
• Lesson 04: Step Sequencer

• Project: Music Box

Build a "Music Box" that plays a little tune every time it's run ——— 15 Points

• The tune doesn't have to sound "pretty" but should be "interesting" enough to listen to several times
• It should be easy to stop or pause, or it should end when the "tune" ends
• At any point, at least two notes must play simultaneously (may occur throughout)
• At any point, at least one effect must be used which is not Feedback Delay or Auto Wah (these may also be used)
Excellence: On time, and above / beyond the assignment ——— 2 Points
Bonus: Interandom ——— 3 Points
Add a little user input or randomness, so that the "Music Box" doesn't always play the same tune —or you can always suggest a stretch goal of your own!
Total Points Available: 20
DUE DATE: End of Week Three

• Lesson 05: Keyboard Keyboard
• Lesson 06: Hello Oscillator
• Lesson 07: Sound Synthesis 01: Beating
• Lesson 08: Sound Synthesis 02: LFO
• Lesson 09: Sound Synthesis 03: Frequency Modulation
• Lesson 10: Sound Synthesis 04: Envelopes
• Seminar 01: Combining/Expanding Concepts/Skills

• Midterm Project: Musical Instrument

Build a "Musical Instrument" that users can play ——— 25 Points

• It doesn't have to sound "pretty" but should be "interesting" enough that users will continue to play with it for some time
• It should have a at least three user controls, things like volume, effects, envelope or sound style, phase shift, pitch choice
• Users must be able to play at least 3 sounds simultaneously
Excellence: On time, and above / beyond the assignment ——— 2 Points
Bonus: Interface ——— 3 Points
Build your own graphical interface which offers users intuitive or exploratory access to the greatest degrees of freedom —or you can always suggest a stretch goal of your own!
Total Points Available: 30
DUE DATE: End of Week Seven

Documentation, Examples, Demos and Tutorials from Tone.js

• Tone.js Documentation
  Your handy reference
  
• Tone.js Examples
  Choose an example on the left, then find the
  
• Code for each Example
  in the projects github repository
• There are also these demos
  hosted by Tone.js —maybe you'd like to Submit a Project!
• The Tone.js Wiki
  This is a hub for learning Tone.js. You can see the list of tutorials in the right-hand links list

Tutorial Links, Elseweb

• A YouTube playlist of tutorial projects for Tone.js by Gregg Fine, AKA "The Code Creative":
  
• Hello World
• Effects
• Building a QWERTY Keyboard Synthesizer
• Working with Oscillators

• Programming Digital Media (PDM)
  Part of the Digital Design and Emergent Media pathway at Louisiana State University, taught by Matthew Bardin
  Within this course we'll look at:
• Sound With Tone.js
• Basics of Sound: A solid introduction to sound itself, then take these sections out of order:
• Synthesized Sound and Sequencing
• Sound File Playback and Audio Effects
The above PDM content has a great set of videos which accompany it

• Dan Tramte begins a series of videos as part of his Browser Noise series


• David Bouchard has two different series as part of his Generative Processes courses
  • One from 2022
  • And one from 2020
  
  
• Jake Albaugh experiments featuring Tone.js in CodePen
  He also has These examples
  


• Google Creative Lab a few of these examples actually still work, and there's some nice info further down


• Finally, I'm building an eclectic playlist of video tutorials from around the web, some of which you'll find in playlists I link to, above

Extras:

• Lightnote
  For a little music theory