The teaching synergy of digital music and SP

Teaching signal processing to senior students can be an enjoyable task, provided that they already have a good background in MATLAB programming and filter theory. We describe a laboratory assignment where students have to synthesize music in different ways: additive; FM; through physical modeling; using wavetables. In each case, we emphasize the SP concepts involved and we show good examples of the results achieved. With small but certain improvements over the last few years, we keep increasing the number of future professionals that will work in DSP.