Category: computerMusic1
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(compMus1) Reason, DP, and Rewire
Reason works as a standalone program, but for our purposes, we will be controlling Reason through DP, and routing Reason audio output to DP for recording and further processing. In this arrangement, Reason runs in Rewire Slave Mode, with Digital Performer as the Rewire Host (or Master Device). Rewire is a technology developed by the…
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(compMus1) Second MIDI Assignment-UPDATED
UPDATED: Due Friday, 2/20, by midnight. (Saturday, 12:00 AM, after 11:59 PM Friday.) To continue your fun of connecting the world with MIDI, this assignment requires you to connect Digital Performer and Reason, using DP as a control device to send MIDI to Reason, and using DP to route and playback digital audio from Reason.…
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(compMus1) The Music Technology Listserv
Music Technology maintains an email listserv, BSU_MET-L, to facilitate one-to-many communication among students, faculty, and staff. You should all subscribe to it. We use it for concert and guest lecture announcements; students often use it to let others know when they can’t make their reserved studio time; and alumni and others use it to post…
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(compMus1) More Disk Full Problems
Last week someone came to me with another problem about Peak not able to process DSP commands due to disk full errors. The seemingly obvious answer is to check the scratch disk folder, making sure it is somewhere that the student login can write to. But in this case, the scratch folder was set to…
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(compMus1) Turning on the Apple Software Synth in DP
When you open DP and try to set the output of a MIDI track to Apple Software Synth, you’ll find that it isn’t a choice. Where is it? The default setup for the studios has the software synthesizer turned off. You can turn it on using the Setup | Interapplication MIDI… menu command. In the…
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(compMus1) First MIDI Assignment
Due Tuesday, 2/17: Open a new DP project. Save it as <yourname_MIDI_1> Create an instrument track using the nanosampler as your instrument. Load any sample into the nanosampler. Assign the output of a MIDI track to the nanosampler. Record on that track MIDI note commands for a one-octave C major scale. Assign the audio output…
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(compMus1) Nibbles, Hexadecimal, and the Noteon Command
Nibbles In binary notation, 8 bits equals one byte. Four bits equals a nibble. A nibble can be represented with one hexadecimal place. Translating large binary numbers to hexadecimal is much easier than translating large binary numbers to base 10. By dividing the binary number into 4-bit nibbles and converting the result to hexadecimal, you…
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(compMus1) Intro to MIDI
MIDI MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a specification for physically connecting devices (interface standard), and for communicating between them (communications messaging protoc0l). It was designed for real-time keyboard performance, originally connecting analog synthesis devices (although it is a digital language). It is a control language – it transmits performance instructions rather…
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(compMus1) Converting to mp3
iTunes is the best app to convert your aiff file to mp3 format. You can do it in Peak, but you can’t save as much information in the file. Open iTunes and drag your mix file into the iTunes music window. iTunes will copy your file into its database. The image below shows my “Kothman…
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(compMus1) New setups in Studios 4 and 5
Jeff installed the new Digidesign audio interfaces Studios 4 and 5 (DAW 1 and 2). For those studios, you no longer use the MOTU 828’s as your audio interfaces. He’s explained why, and how to use the new setups, on his blog. The bottom line: if you can’t figure out the DAW’s, work in studio…