AV1 Syllabus Spring 2015

Audio for Video 1 Wednesdays 11am-12:40pm Studio C (aka Edu room 880)   Online Course Description An introduction to the concepts and applications of audio production for video, television and film. Current production techniques frequently used in the post-production industry will be explored with special emphasis on synchronization and the interfacing of SMPTE time code, […]

Samplers and building a Sample library

Building a library of sounds that you can have figuratively at your finger tips is key to composing with sounds and testing musical ideas quickly.  Additionally, with a library of loops, short sound effects, long textures and such, you can perform your compositions live. Worksheet 1  

Mixing Gates Lab

Use this presentation to guide your lab experience. gates lab sheet.

Mixing Gates

      Using side chaining and gates are powerful tools for music production, performance and remixing.   The examples below can be easily employed to make space in a mix for a new sounds or create a rhythmic figure from a continuous sound or noise. These tricks have been used to help rhythm sections […]

Advanced Mapping

MIDI mapping in your DAW can turn your music production tools into music performance tools.   At times the automatic mapping features of programs like live can be very helpful.  Occasionally you may find that they do not work to your satisfaction.     For example,  if you map a MIDI key press (using the […]

Live Looping

A really quick way to explore some musical ideas live, whether using instruments or synthesizers is live looping.    Most any DAW can be used to create a live looping instrument if you can find a delay with 100% feedback and simultaneously reduce the input to that delay to -infinity or mute. Download an Ableton […]

Topic Outline

As your group digs into your final project research, you will want to organize the research such that you cover the most important parts of your topic.  Ideally you will split your main topic into three areas you can each individually review.  That said, you are each responsible for the over-all success of the presentation.  So […]

Final Project Sources

Each member of your video production group must contribute to the understanding of the topic.  A key ingredient in this understanding is producing a literary review of the topic.  You must be able to cite any statement of fact used in your paper, script or video. Submit your sources here. Reminder, all sources must be […]

FMT-final project week 1

In preparation for your final project please make a few decisions regarding rolls of group members to get things started. 1. Choose a group leader/manager. This person will be responsible for making decisions when the group needs one person to do so, and will be responsible for keeping the group on-task. 2. Choose a group […]

FMT final project time

For the final project in Fundamentals of Music Technology, we will focus our studies on specific topics that each group of 3 students will present to the rest of the class in the last two meetings. Points for accuracy and awesomeness of presentation. Select your topic preference here.

Presentation Rig update

Mid-semester Fall 2014 update. While splashtop bench tested where, there were some issues in using it that I did not expect. 1. Audio Programs behave sluggishly, specifically to mouse-intensive activities on my almost 2 year old laptop while running Splashtop 2. Having the audio programs on screen is not as helpful as I once thought. […]

Sound Design via Automation

This lab provides some example strategies to produce exciting sounds, noises and samples using parameter automation. Worksheet here .

Audio to MIDI

This lab will focus on using the Audio to MIDI conversion functions available in Ableton Live (v9) and likely many other DAWs moving forward. These tools can be used to help quickly create new productions as well as assist in the analysis of existing works. Lab worksheet.

Re-sampling workflow

To make music creation more efficient we will use one of the re-sampling workflows that has become popular with electronic producer/mentors such as ill.Gates and training organizations such as dubSpot.   Sound library build worksheet.

Simple Synthesis

This workshop will get you into the basics of synthesis using the Simpler Instrument in Ableton Live. This can be done with the basic, standard or suite versions of Live. Please download these synthesis source files. Simpler Synthesis worksheet Reminder: As you create sounds you like, record them as samples to be used in your […]