Musical interfaces (Digital Audio Workstation)
Microphone Types of Microphones:
- Dynamic and Condenser Mics
- Phantom Power
- Directionality Patterns
- Proximity Effects
- Balanced Versus Unbalanced
- Comb Filtering Effects
- 3-1 Rule
Elements of a DAW Setup
- Cable
- Midi Controller
- Digital Audio Workstation
- Hardware
- Software
- Audacity
- Ableton
- Monitor & Headphone
Task
- Making connections between hardwares
- Good practices of handling equipment and connections
- Getting signals/midi messages into the workstation
- How to examine the signal flow?
- Record/playback something
- Does it sound as expected? What could be changed to improve quality?
- Editing/Mixing/Bounce to file
- Volume/panning/common used effects
Ableton
- Session and Arrangement Views
- Clips, Scenes, Tracks
- Midi versus Audio Tracks
- Master Track, Return Tracks
- I/O Routing and Monitoring
- Signal Chain
- Effects versus Instruments
- Transport controls, Recording a Session
Categories of Sound Effects
- Spectral versus Dynamic Processing
- Mastering / Post-processing Effects: Equalization, Compression
- Creative Effects: Beat Repeat, Vocoder
- Distortions and Vintage: Redux, Overdrive, Erosion, Saturator
- Spatial: Reverb, Panning
Smart Editing
- In-Place Edit: Reverse Vocal Effect
- Warping: Pseudo-Markers, Warp Commands
- Methods for Time-Stretching and Pitch Shifting: Choosing the Clip Warping method
- Granular Synthesis - sound editing or a creative technique?
- Complex Warping and the Vocoder - history of Vocoding, Voder
- Vocoder Plugin