Session 1: Both parts of your sound effects assignment are due today. Please make sure that all your sounds are copied to the drop off drive so we can listen to them in the studio. We’ll be listening to your sound effects in class. Also, keep working on your multi tracking project. The most important thing is that your five tracks work well together. This project will be due before class two weeks from today on Session 1, Week 6. Mix down your project and save it as a .WAV file (44khz, 16bit) and copy the file to the drop off drive. We’ll listen to them in class on Session 1, Week 6. Also, today I would like to listen to how everyone’s doing on their projects so far and give you all some feedback, so please be prepared to show me your work in lab.

Finally let’s take a careful look at Equalization in Pro Tools. Equalization, or EQ, is critical when mixing multiple tracks of audio together. Layering sounds with similar frequencies can often cause a “muddy” mix unless each track is taylored with EQ to work well together. The following article has an excellent explanation of a few different types of eq filtering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_filter

Session 2: Check out these links to other digital audio software programs. In this class we’ll be focusing on just a few examples (Sound Forge, Vegas, Pro Tools and Reason), but there are dozens of excellent and innovative applications for creating music, manipulating audio or generating new sounds never heard before.

Digital Audio Production Software
Pro Tools – www.avid.com
Sonar – www.cakewalk.com
CuBase – www.steinberg.net
Logic – www.apple.com/logic
Digital Performer – www.motu.com

Soft Synths
Reaktor – www.native-instruments.com
Absynth – www.native-instruments.com
B4 – www.native-instruments.com
Kontakt – www.native-instruments.com
Reason – www.propellerheads.se

Odd stuff
Ableton LIVE – www.ableton.com
Recycle – www.propellerheads.se

Writing Assignment: Write a one page paper on an audio production application that we will not necessarily use in this class. Discuss what makes the software unique and how you and professionals in the industry might use the software in projects. This paper will be due on Session 2 of Week 5.