Week 5 — Multi-track digital audio sequencing, audio mixing and production

Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1:30-3:20 PM, Phelps 207

Reading due next week

Roads, Ch. 9, “Sound Mixing”

pp. 355 – 375 (up to Audio Monitoring)

Conceptual Tutorials

Tutorial - Logic MIDI
Tutorial - Reason Racks
Tutorial - Basic Digital Synthesis

Lecture Slides

Since we weren't able to cover everything in class last time, refer to the lecture slides for last week: Class04.pdf

Exercise 2

Continue Exercise 2

Lab Session 4

Hours TBA, YalMusT Lab, Studio B16A, 143 Elm Street

Terms To Know

analog versus digital
VCO - volatge controlled oscillator
VCF - voltage controlled filter
VCA - voltage controlled amplifier
control voltage (CV)
LFO - low frequency oscillator
envelope generator (EG)
ADSR - attack decay sustain release
subtractive synthesis - source + modifier - source + filter + envelope
sine wave
triangle wave - odd harmonics, 1/n^2
square wave - odd harmonics, 1/n
sawtooth wave - all harmonics, 1/n
pulse wave
PWM - pulse width modulation
filters
low-pass
band-pass
high-pass
notch
filter slope
filter bandwidth
filter resonance
Q = center frequency / bandwidth
multi-segment envelopes
panning
pitch bend
modulation wheel
vibrato = frequency modulation = FM
tremolo = amplitude modulation = AM
additive synthesis
inharmonics (inharmonic components)