Author: Keith Kothman

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…

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…

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…

When you’re finished with your project (all mixing/DP processing is done), you need to bounce your project to disk to get a stereo aiff file. Bouncing to disk processes all of your soundbites and the non-destructive edits you’ve applied, mixes them, and outputs the result to a file. The basic process involves Selecting all of…

Consider this an open post so that if you need to cancel any reserved studio time you have made, you can let the rest of the class know about it. Use the comment box.

Once you finish your project, you need to burn an audio CD that contains your mixed project in stereo (not a data CD). convert the data file of your stereo mix to mp3, with appropriate data information entered in (title, artists[you], and composer[you]) turn in a folder containing all your data (DP files, original and…

Here’s the procedure to turn in data files to my drop box. Connect to the musictech server (links to all the how to’s) Select the UsersMT1 volume to mount. Navigate to UsersMT1 | kkothman | Public Your view will be slightly different, since you won’t have the same write permissions. My Drop Box folder will…

Jeff has posted some really handy entries on his blog about how to connect the musictech server. They even include pictures. So I’m not going to repost descriptions – just links to Jeff’s very good stuff. How to connect to the server from the lab or a mac on campus. How to connect from WindowsXP.…