Digital Audio Signals -- Sampling (Wavetable) Synthesis -- Digital Filters -- Modal Synthesis -- The Fourier Transform -- Spectral Modeling and Additive Synthesis -- Subband Vocoders and Filterbanks -- Subtractive Synthesis and LPC -- Strings and Bars -- Nonlinearity, Waveshaping, FM -- Tubes and Air Cavities -- Two and Three Dimensions -- FOFs, Wavelets, and Particles -- Exciting and Controlling Sound Models -- Walking Synthesis: A Complete System -- Examples, Systems, and Applications -- DFT, Convolution, and Transform Properties -- The Ideal String -- Acoustic Tubes -- Sound Examples and Code on CD/CDROM -- The Synthesis Toolkit in C++.