Author: Keith Kothman

Filters A general definition for a filter is anything that changes the gain of frequencies in a sound. This definition is so general it is useless, since by this definition all audio producing, recording, transmission, and listening devices (including rooms, ears, etc.) are filters. Typically, we use the term filter to apply to devices that…

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…

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…

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…

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…