<p>To effectively demonstrate the strength of using digital signal processing when producing sound effects, a sound effects demo is used at the lectures of the course TSRT78, Digital signal processing, which is given at the university in Linköping.</p><p>The amount of effects, that in an instructive way can be used for an educational purpose, are many and the existing version of the sound effects demo is somewhat limited in its range of effects.</p><p>This reports main focus lies in the presentation of what kind of effects which can be interesting in this kind of demo. All of the effects are presented with their background theory and examples on how they can be implemented in software, mainly with the focus on MATLABTM. Investigations on how well the effects can be run in realtime, in the toolbox SimulinkTM, has been made.</p><p>In the report there is also a presentation of a new version of the sound effect demo that has been produced with user friendlieness and further updates in mind. In the new demo all of the effects are implemented, according to their presentations. The report finishes with suggestions for further work on the sound effects demo.</p>

To effectively demonstrate the strength of using digital signal processing when producing sound effects, a sound effects demo is used at the lectures of the course TSRT78, Digital signal processing, which is given at the university in Linköping. The amount of effects, that in an instructive way can be used for an educational purpose, are many and the existing version of the sound effects demo is somewhat limited in its range of effects. This reports main focus lies in the presentation of what kind of effects which can be interesting in this kind of demo. All of the effects are presented with their background theory and examples on how they can be implemented in software, mainly with the focus on MATLABTM. Investigations on how well the effects can be run in realtime, in the toolbox SimulinkTM, has been made. In the report there is also a presentation of a new version of the sound effect demo that has been produced with user friendlieness and further updates in mind. In the new demo all of the effects are implemented, according to their presentations. The report finishes with suggestions for further work on the sound effects demo.

This diploma thesis deals with pitch shifting methods of acoustical signals. The theoretic part of this thesis involves description of three different pitch shifting techniques, these are the method using a modulated delay line, PICOLA method and method using a phase vocoder. The first two methods represent the processing in time domain, the third method represents the processing in frequency domain. In relation with the PICOLA method, the thesis also mentions algorithms for pitch estimation. The practical part demonstrates the use of these methods. There is described a sampler virtual musical instrument based on the playback of the sounds stored in memory. In this part the particular units providing the required functionality are described. The generating of sounds is controlled by the MIDI protocol. In the sampler is implemented the PICOLA method.

The main subject of this work represents the time-frequency signal analysis. Firstly, it intends to provide the most essential theoretical background with focus on the continuous wavelet transform, where also a comparison of the key features with its close relative the short-time Fourier transform is performed. Afterwards, there follows a demonstration of the purpose with a practical example. The particular aim is to create a phase vocoder solution for modifying the length of a sound record duration and pitch shifting. Here, in this place, the functional principles, design, procedure of assembling, outputs and achieved results are well documented.