Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Sound and Music in the Digital Age -- The First Day of Class -- My Name Is Andy -- Some Thoughts on the Study of Music -- The Physics of Music -- Volume (Amplitude) -- Pitch (Frequency) -- Analog to Digital -- The Art of Music -- Music as an Expressive Form -- Elements of Music -- Taking Back the Creativity (or the Difference Between Making Music and Copying Music) -- CHAPTER 2 For Fun and Profit: The Business of Music -- The Challenge: Doing Good Work on a Budget -- Composition -- Digital Audio Production -- Audio for Games -- Sound for Picture -- CHAPTER 3 MIDI Basics -- What Is MIDI, Anyway? -- A Tale of Two Keyboards (and Beyond) -- The Essence of MIDI -- MIDI versus Audio -- Before MIDI: A Music Notation Primer -- Tempo -- Measures and Time Signatures -- Notes and Pitches -- More Expressive Notation -- CHAPTER 4 Exercise 1: Getting Started with MIDI -- Getting Started -- Setting Up Your Hardware -- Opening a File -- Playing a MIDI File -- Saving Your Work -- CHAPTER 5 The Language of MIDI -- MIDI Channel Messages -- MIDI Voice Message -- Channel Mode Messages -- MIDI System Messages -- MIDI Common Messages -- Real Time Messages -- Exclusive Messages -- Sequencing Basics -- Multitrack MIDI -- The Big Event (List) -- Two Ways to Look at the Music (Staff and Piano Roll) -- CHAPTER 6 Exercise 2: Working with Multitrack MIDI -- Changing Instruments -- Changing Tempo -- Fixing Notes -- CHAPTER 7 The MIDI Studio -- More About MIDI Signal Flow -- Synthesizers and MIDI -- Monophonic versus Polyphonic -- Monotimbral versus Multitimbral -- General MIDI and SMFs -- Transforming Your MIDI -- Control Freak -- Transpose -- Quantize -- Arpeggiate -- CHAPTER 8 Exercise 3: Transforming MIDI -- Using Cakewalk Home Studio -- Quantizing -- Grid Mode -- Using the Arpeggiator Feature -- Cut, Copy, and Paste.

Using the Transpose Function -- Recording MIDI -- Making a Rough Mix -- CHAPTER 9 Studio Setup Tips -- Getting Rid of Hum -- Ground Loops -- Lighting Tips -- Intelligent Wiring -- Protecting Your Gear -- Voltage -- Good Monitor Health -- Your Monitor Speakers -- Choosing and Using Nearfield Monitors -- Mixing with Headphones -- Recording Digital Audio -- Making Smart Choices -- Digital Audio Recording Tips -- CHAPTER 10 Exercise 4: Digital Audio Workstations -- Setting Up Your DAW for Audio -- The Power of DAWs -- DAWs as Pointer-Based Applications -- Regions and Files -- Oooh, Nonlinear, Nondestructive! -- Importing Audio -- Naming Tracks and Regions -- Getting the Big Picture -- The (Multi)track Window -- Editing Audio -- Cut, Copy, and Paste -- Trim -- Recording Audio -- Making a Rough Mix -- CHAPTER 11 Bringin' It Home: Mixing with a DAW -- Signal Flow, Signal Flow, Signal Flow -- Inserts, Sends, and Buses -- Plug-Ins -- Processing Your Audio (Part 1: Dynamic-Based Effects) -- Processing Your Audio (Part 2: Time-Based Effects) -- Processing Your Audio (Part 3: Special Effects) -- Get on the Bus-Internal Mixing -- Mixing Basics -- Groups -- Automation -- Fades -- CHAPTER 12 Exercise 5: Mixing -- Using Dynamic Effects -- Using Time-Based Effects -- Creating a Fader Group -- Automating Your Mix -- Creating Fades -- Using Groove Clips -- When You're Done (for Now): Mixdown -- The Last Day of Class -- APPENDIX A: Setting Up Your Studio -- Setting Up Your Audio -- Sound Cards -- Getting Connected -- Setting Up Your MIDI -- MIDI Interfaces -- MIDI Hardware -- The Ins, Outs, and Thrus of MIDI -- APPENDIX B: MIDI Notes, Names, and Numbers -- Keyboard Note Assignments -- Keyboard General MIDI Drum Assignments -- Staff Note Assignments -- APPENDIX C: The Basics of Digital Audio -- Digital Audio versus MIDI -- Sample Rates and Bit Depth -- INDEX -- A -- B.

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