Real World Digital Audio
- 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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