Hallo! > figured one of you was bound to know the answer to that one. I'm looking > for a simple reference or primer to digital audio; something that > wouldn't be language specific, but which would just cover the basics, > like sound generation, key parameters, and so forth. I'm not looking for > a book here, just some simple online resource that would send me on my > way and allow me to go to other more complete resources, should I need > to. a free online book by Miller Puckette (author of PD and MAX): http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm always explains all the stuff in general and then shows implementations in PD ... LG Georg