Preface to the Second Edition

This second edition represents a revised and extended version and offers an improved description besides new issues and extended references. The contents of this book are the basis of a lecture on Digital Audio Signal Processing at the Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg-Harburg) and a lecture on Multimedia Signal Processing at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg. For further studies you can find interactive audio demonstrations, exercises and Matlab examples on the web site

http://ant.hsu-hh.de/dasp/

Besides the basics of digital audio signal processing introduced in this second edition, further advanced algorithms for digital audio effects can be found in the book DAFX – Digital Audio Effects (Ed. U. Zölzer) with the related web site

http://www.dafx.de

My thanks go to Professor Dieter Leckschat, Dr. Gerald Schuller, Udo Ahlvers, Mijail Guillemard, Christian Helmrich, Martin Holters, Dr. Florian Keiler, Stephan Möller, Francois-Xavier Nsabimana, Christian Ruwwe, Harald Schorr, Dr. Oomke Weikert, Catja Wilkens and Christian Zimmermann.

Udo Zölzer

Hamburg, June 2008