Introduction to Music Technology

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Classwork & Assignments

• Syllabus
• Final Projects
• Audio Exercise 1 (Editing Audio)
• Audio Exercise 2 (Creating a Ringtone)
• Completed Ringtones (Great work!)
• Audio Exercise 3 (Creating a Multitrack Ringtone)
• Creating a Fade-In (Follow-up video, created for a previous class)
• Audio Exercise 4 (Editing Voice)
• Follow-up Video for Editing Voice Exercise (Created for a previous class)
• Soundtrack Project
• ACID XPress Checklist (Printable version)
• Recording MIDI in Sonar
• Sonar Project (Working with a DAW)
• Step Recording in Sonar
• Making Your MIDI Sequences Breathe
• Demonstration Videos on Finale
• Finale's Main Screen (Windows version. PDF file)
• The Harmonic Series
• Leonard Bernstein on the Harmonic Series
• Comparing Sample Rates (requires Flash)
• The Distortion of Sound. (A documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music)
• Notes and Stuff

Textbook Website

• An Introduction to Music Technology

Free Software

• Audacity (audio editing software for PC and MAC)
• Get ACID XPress (free version of ACID for PC. MAC users, you have Garage Band)
• ACIDPlanet (listen to what others are doing with ACID)
• Use this search to find free ACID loops to download

The Triton (the first three links are PDF files)

• Triton Basics
• Triton Voice List
• Triton Parameter Guide
• Korg Web site