DESN 275 Digital Sound - Resource Site
(Winter 2009)
Instructor:
Dr. James Braukmann
, (509) 359-2437, Office 335 CEB
Document Resources
Course Description
Syllabus
Audacity User Guide
Alesis Mixer Quickstart Manual
,
Alesis Mixer Reference
Tracktion User Guide
General Purpose Sound Files
-
Loops
Student Project Folders
Software
FTP software for Windows
FTP for Macintosh OS
, or you can copy the application Fetch from any Mac in our lab. Simply drop it into your own applications folder and it will work!
Other software
related to sound editing
Audacity Download
(Free editor for all operating systems)
LAME for all OS
Tracktion Demo Download
KVR Plug-ins
(A few are free)
Free VST Plug-ins at Greenoak
Sound Sampler for Macs
(Free working trial option)
LEDSpectrum Analyzer for iTunes
(Mac OSX, drop into iTunes Plug-ins folder. Reboot and find as a Visualizer option.
poderator.com
will write the necessary XML files for you for free and help you publish your podcasts.
Assignments and Related Resources
Unit 1:
Syllabus
,
Printable Assignment Sheet
,
PowerPoint Introduction
Here is the link to the
Flash animated introduction to sound and waveforms
. (waves, waveforms, speed of sound, etc.)
Here is the short narration to be fixed
.
Audacity Printable Users Guide
,
Audacity On-Line Manual With Tutorials
Note that the FTP username for our class s69 and the host is www.technology.euw.edu and password is in the handout.
Unit 2:
Assignment Sheet for Unit 2 Part 1
PowerPoint Effects and EQ
,
PowerPoint Mics and Cables
,
Powerpoint Recording Process Hardware
Assignment files:
SoloGuitar for Delay
,
Poor Cassette Recording to Improve
,
Tinny Recording to Improve
Unit 2:
Assignment Sheet for Unit 2 Part 2 (weeks 3-4)
Alesis USB8 Manual
,
PowerPoint on Sound Synthesizers
Example MIDI files
Pleae note that we will have a quiz on Tuesday on the following topics:
Selected topics from your reading assignment in Sound Desigbn CH 4
Destructive and non-destructive editing, setting recording levels, normalizing. What is a noise gate, compressor, chorus, and EQ effect?
The questions on your last
assignment sheet
regarding the
Alesis manual
.
The short topics The
Mic Locker
, and
Complexity Simplified
in the Sweetwater ProGear book.
The topics covered in the
PowerPoint on Mics and Cables
.
(As far as we get through) The terms covered in the
PowerPoint on Sound Synthesizers
.
Unit 3:
Assignmnet Sheet for Unit 3 (week 5)
PDF Powerpoint Intro to MIDI
,
Power Point Intro to Vocoders
PDF Powerpoint Intro to Compressors - Limiters - Noise Gates
MIDI file for Class Practice
,
DrumSnare file for Class Practice
,
John Henry WAV
,
John Henry MP3
,
Steam Engine
,
Hammer
,
Workers
Narration for Assignment 1
Sound Map Form in Excel
,
Sound Map Form in PDF
MIDI file for Assignment 2
Unit 4:
Assignment Sheet for Unit 4
(weeks 6-7)
PDF Powerpoint on
Music Theory for Sound Designers
,
C Major Scale MIDI file
,
A Minor MIDI file
PDF Powerpoint on
using music for communication in a sound track
Single
summary page of useful musical ideas
to help as you complete these assignments
Unit 5:
Assignment Sheet for Unit 5
(weeks 9-10)
PDF Powerpoint on Mixing
Link to
folder with tracks
for mixing assignment