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Real World Digital Audio

ISBN: 0321304608
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 96

Authors: Peter Kirn

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• Real World Digital Audio
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Making Music with Technology
• What s in This Book
• Who This Book Is For
• How to Use This Book
• Chapter 1. Understanding Digital Sound
• How Sound Works
• Sound and Perception
• Sound in Digital Form
• Chapter 2. Choosing Your Tools
• Inputs and Outputs
• Choosing the Right Computer
• Music and Sound Production Tools
• Going Shopping
• Chapter 3. Setting Up Your Equipment
• Setting Up Your Workspace
• Connecting Physical Hardware
• Chapter 4. Preparing Your Computer for Audio
• Connecting Your Virtual Studio
• Maintaining Your Virtual Studio
• Chapter 5. Quick Songs with Patterns and Loops
• Patterns and Loops
• Create a Backing Track (GarageBand)
• Make a Groove Box (Kinetic)
• Chapter 6. Recording Instruments and Sound
• Microphone Characteristics
• Recording Applications
• Digital Recording
• Chapter 7. Processing and Effects
• Basics of Signal Processors
• Equalization
• Dynamics Processors
• Time-Related Effects
• Specialized Processors
• Chapter 8. MIDI: Notes, Rhythms, and Physical Control
• Ins, Outs, and Thrus of MIDI
• How MIDI Models Performances
• Recording Performances
• Editing and Manipulating Performances
• Chapter 9. Synthesis and Software Instruments
• Basic Types of Synthesis
• Samplers and Sample Playback
• Synthesis Building Blocks: Virtual Analog Techniques
• Modulation and Effects
• Chapter 10. Put It Together: Arrange, Mix, and Master
• Arranging
• Mixing
• Mixdown, Mastering, and Sharing
• Chapter 11. Producing Printed Scores
• What Notation Software Does
• Getting Started with a Score
• Print, Play, and Share Your Score
• Chapter 12. Music and Sound for Video
• Synchronization, Tools, and Formats
• Music for Video
• Recording for Video
• Chapter 13. Playing Live
• Digital Audio Onstage
• Live Arranging and Clips
• DJing and the Live Remix
• Custom Performance Software
• What s on the DVD
• Tools and Extras
• Soundware
• Index
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