Author: Keith Kothman
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(musTh625) moving from DAW-based musique concrete to virtual samplers
As you add virtual samplers (Kontakt) to your closet of techniques available to you as a computer musician, it can help to understand the function of a virtual sampler – why to use one, and what interesting things can you make it do. As an introduction, I’m organizing the post into a set of questions.…
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(musTh625) project 2: musique concrete and virtual instruments
Due Tuesday, June 3, at beginning of class. overview Compose a short work (75 – 90 seconds, 1’15 – 1’30) utilizing musique concrète techniques. You will process audio as before in Audacity and Audition, and assemble in Digital Performer, with the addition of using a virtual sampler (Kontakt) to further process audio samples. You are encouraged to…
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(musTh625) using reverb, bouncing to disk
You can use reverb as an effect in Digital Performer to add a sense of depth, or distance to the apparent sound field. I’ve posted about how to use ProVerb, and provided some links to help understand reverb in general, here: http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2013/05/musth625-using-reverb-as-an-insert-effect-in-digital-performer/ To finish your project, you will need to mix down, or bounce to…
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(pianoPed) combining notation and text, and midi file import
Due Tuesday, May 27. This assignment is in two, unrelated parts. part 1 Create a Word document with imported Finale notation. Your Word document should have two short paragraphs (short, and can simply introduce the piece by composer,title, and measure range), and two Finale examples from the notation assignment, with example headings for each (Example 1,…
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(musTh625) project 1: musique concrete
Due Tuesday, May 27, at beginning of class. overview Compose a short work (45 – 60 seconds) utilizing musique concrète techniques. You will process your sounds in Audacity and/or Audition, and assemble/compose them in Digital Performer. You should use three to five original sound sources. You will edit and process your sounds using the basic…
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(pianoPed) midi sequencing assignment
Due Wednesday, May 21. objective To use a DAW to record and produce a short, multi-track MIDI sequence. description You will use Presonus Studio One and a USB MIDI controller to create a recorded MIDI sequence of a segment of Bach’s C minor Fugue from the first volume of the Well-Tempered Clavier (to be handed out…
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(pianoPed) midi sequencing with studio one
daw software Studio One belongs to a class of software usually referred to as Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software. DAWs provide the ability to record/edit/play audio and MIDI in multiple tracks, with non-destructive effects, and usually include some virtual instruments. Similar programs include Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, MOTU Digital Performer, and Avid Pro Tools.…
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(musTh625) musique concrete, starting your piece 2
Part 1 described how to collect sounds, organize your files, and listen to your soundfiles for smaller your gestures. This part will outline some initial processes you can apply to your soundfiles to get interesting results. For now we will stick to Audition and Audacity for processing. using audition Audition uses an integrated window that…
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(musTh625) musique concrete, starting your piece 1
Starting your first musique concrete project usually requires a new way of thinking about music and working with sound in general. To help you organize your work in the early stages, I’m going to summarize some key points, tools, and procedures. sound sources The starting assumption is that you want to create a piece of…
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(pianoPed) finale basics
A collection of things we’ve gone over in class, and some things I’ve forgotten to tell you about. setting up your document Use the Setup Wizard for creating new documents. You can choose your page size, page orientation (portrait or landscape), choose your instruments to include, a key, starting tempo markings, number of measures, title…