Introduction 1. Digital Audio Signals 2. Sampling (Wavetable) Synthesis 3. Digital Filters 4. Modal Synthesis 5. The Fourier Transform 6. Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis 7. Subband Vocoders and Filterbanks 8. Subtractive Synthesis and LPC 9. Strings and Bars 10. Nonlinearity, Waveshaping, FM 11. Tubes and Air Cavities 12. Two and Three Dimensions 13. FOFs, Wavelets, and Particles 14. Exciting and Controlling Sound Models 15. Walking Synthesis: a Complete System 16. Examples, Systems, and Applications A. DFT, Convolution, and Transform Properties B. The Ideal String C. Acoustic Tub D. Sound Examples and Code E. The Synthesis Toolkit in C + +