DESN 275 Digital Sound - Resource Site (Winter 2009)

Instructor: Dr. James Braukmann, (509) 359-2437, Office 335 CEB

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.

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
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.