Notes:"Translated from the Italian by Agostino Di Scipio"--Title page verso.
"The authors have revised and upgraded the text for this English edition"--Title page verso.

Other Titles: Suono virtuale.

1. Introduction : digital control application to power electronic circuits
1.1. Modern power electronics
1.2. Why digital control
1.3. Trends and perspectives
1.4. What is in this book
2. The test case : a single-phase voltage source inverter
2.1. The voltage source inverter
2.2. Low-level control of the voltage source inverter : PWM modulation
2.3. Analog control approaches
3. Digital current mode control
3.1. Requirements of the digital controller
3.2. Basic digital current control implementations
4. Extension to three-phase inverters
4.1. The [alpha][beta] transformation
4.2. Space vector modulation
4.3. The rotating reference frame current controller
5. External control loops
5.1. Modeling the internal current loop
5.2. Design of voltage controllers
5.3. Large bandwidth controllers
5.4. Narrow bandwidth controllers
5.5. Other applications of the current controlled VSI
6. Conclusions
7. About the authors.

Virtual Sound is an in-depth tutorial in computer music, complete with user-friendly exercises in Csound that illustrate the theory and practice of each type of sound synthesis and processing. The subjects covered include additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, flow-charts, control signals, vibrato and tremolo, 3-D sound, sampling, analysis and resynthesis, MIDI files and MIDI controls, amplitude and ring modulation, frequency modulation (FM), echo, reverberation, chorus, flanger, phaser, convolution, waveshaping and vector synthesis, granular synthesis, formant synthesis, and physical modeling. If you have a basic understanding of computers and the fundamentals of acoustics, you'll have no trouble reading this book. After having read it, you should be able to use other commercial or research-oriented software with a greater understanding of how it functions.