Digital Audio WorkstationPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a PC or Macintosh equipped with sound cards and software for editing and processing digital audio. A properly outfitted computer can now function like a sophisticated recording studio, using plug-ins and special software to create recording-studio quality sound on the desktop, and then allowing users to edit and process that sound to perfection. DAWs are not only revolutionizing the way music is recorded, but allow new forms of electronic music, created entirely in the computer, to be written and recorded on the desktop. The Digital Audio Workstation Studio, by renowned digital music expert Colby Lieder, will be the first book to teach the complete DAW process, from outfitting your computer with the necessary hardware and software, recording with the proper microphones, using DAW power to create perfectly modulated mixes, to finally mastering down into a completely professional finished product. With this book, a computer, and a little imagination, any musician can create utterly professional music CDs, DVDs, or streamed audio. |
Contents
Sound and Human Perception | 14 |
Taking a Byte Out of Bits | 31 |
DigitaltoAnalog Conversion | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A/D converter acoustic AIFF algorithms allow ambisonics analog audio file formats audio interface audio signal audio track byte called channel compact disc companding composer compression Computer Music configuration converter create Csound DAW software DAW-based developed devices Digidesign digital audio workstation digital signal disk display dither Dolby Digital DVD-Audio ears editing encoding environment example fader Figure filter frequency graphical hardware input instruments listener loudspeakers master meters microphone MIDI mix engineers mixing console modern DAW multichannel multitrack editor-sequencer multitrack recorder Music-N noise operating system output performance physical playback plug-in Pro Tools processor project studio psychoacoustic quantization ratio real-time recording result reverberation sample values sampling rate Signal Amplitude signal processing simply sound file sound source space spatial specific standard stereo stored surround audio surround mixing synthesizer tape techniques time-domain tion two-track editor typically virtual voltage waves