The ongoing pursuit for both creative and realistic sounds and processing nowadays includes real-time sound synthesis and control, spatial sound, and realistic emulation of analog and vintage effects devices and synthesizers, especially with strongly nonlinear and time-varying behavior. The aim of this special issue is to present current research advances in real-time musical signal processing applications. Prospective papers should be unpublished, and present novel, fundamental research offering innovative contributions from a methodological or an application perspective. The expected scope of manuscripts for this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

* Sound synthesis techniques and synthesis control
* Musical instrument and singing voice synthesis
* Equalization and filtering, dynamic range compression, delay and distortion algorithms
* Virtual analog and vintage audio effects
* Reverberation synthesis, measurement and perception
* Analysis of musical instrument sounds for real-time synthesis
* Performance gesture measurement, analysis and synthesis
* Active noise control in portable music players
* Microphone and loudspeaker arrays
* Bandwidth expansion and bass enhancement
* Music loudness estimation
* Synthesis and computer music languages
* Audio coding
* Hardware and software implementations

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due September 15, 2010
First Round of Reviews December 15, 2010
Publication Date March 15, 2011