Digital Audio Effects Interactive Demo Applications

A set of Java applications each of which an interactive demonstration application of digital audio effects and processes.

Developed in 2009 to 2010

Copyright (C) 2010 - Andrew Kwok-Fai Lui

The Open University of Hong Kong

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Introduction

There are 11 interactive demo applications included in this package

1. Wave Generator (faifai.audio.WaveGeneratorApplication)
2. Audio Playback (faifai.audio.AudioFilePlaybackApplication)
3. Resampling Demo (faifai.audio.ResamplingDemoApplication)
4. Quantization Demo (faifai.audio.QuantizationDemoApplication)
5. Frequency Masking Demo (faifai.audio.MaskingDemoApplication)
6. Midi Instrument Demo (faifai.midi.MidiInstrumentApplication)
7. Midi Chord Demo (faifai.midi.MidiChordApplication)
8. Midi File Player (faifai.midi.MidiFilePlayerApplication)
9. Midi Instrument Record Demo (faifai.midi.MidiInstrumentSaveApplication)
10. Audio Effect Demo (faifai.audio.EffectApplication)
11. Wave Harmonics Generator (faifai.audio.WaveHarmonicsGeneratorApplication)

Running the Applications

Pre-requisites

1. Java JRE 1.8 or above

Running the Applications Through the Launcher

A launcher application ApplicationLauncher.class is provided for running each of the 11 applications.

1. Download the repository to a folder, assuming that it is /app/DMAudioDemo. The Java classes are found in the bin folder.
2. Execute ApplicationLauncher.class insider the folder

cd /app/DMAudioDemo

java -cp "./bin" ApplicationLauncher

Running Individual Application

Alternatively, each of the 11 applications can be executed from their main classes (as in the above list).

cd /app/DMAudioDemo

java -cp "./bin" faifai.audio.WaveGeneratorApplication

Overview of the Applications

Wave Generator

Class: faifai.audio.WaveGeneratorApplication

• Generate sine, triangle and square, sawtooth, click-sine waveforms
• Set frequency and amplitude
• Visualize the waveform

Wave Harmonics Generator

Class: faifai.audio.WaveHarmonicsGeneratorApplication

• Set frequency
• Set the amplitudes of 4 harmonics
• Visualize the waveform

Audio File Playback

Class: faifai.audio.AudioFilePlaybackApplication

• Load audio file, play and record
• Visualize the waveform

Resampling Demo

Class: faifai.audio.ResamplingDemoApplication

• Upsample and Downsample
• Visualize the waveforms before and after the processing

Quantization Demo

Class: faifai.audio.QuantizationDemoApplication

• Change quantization levels between 8 bits to 1 bit
• Visualize the waveforms before and after the processing

Frequency Masking Demo

Class: faifai.audio.MaskingDemoApplication

• Play two audio signal of different frequencies at the same time.

Instruction: set two signals to the same frequency with one at a significantly lower amplitude than the other. Adjust the weaker signal's frequency (turning it up) until you start hearing it. The difference in frequency is the marked zone. Refer to this page for information about frequency masking

Audio Effect Demo

Class: faifai.audio.EffectApplication

• Supports digital audio processing such as amplify, boost, fade-in, fade-out, and high-pass , low-pass, band-pass and band-reject filters. It also supports reverse and reverb

The Midi Demo

The Midi demo include the following classes.

• Midi Instrument Demo (faifai.midi.MidiInstrumentApplication)
• Midi Chord Demo (faifai.midi.MidiChordApplication)
• Midi File Player (faifai.midi.MidiFilePlayerApplication)
• Midi Instrument Record Demo (faifai.midi.MidiInstrumentSaveApplication)

These demo applications play MIDI sound either interactively or from a Midi file.