Interested in a career in music? Learn everything you need to know about working with digital audio, including the digital signal path, compression, DAWs, MIDI, and mixing.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What is sound made of?
- Frequency and amplitude
- Phase and time
- How do we hear?
- The acoustic, analog, and digital domains
- Overview of a signal path
- Getting sound into the analog domain
- Types of analog connections
- Gain stages in the analog domain
- Metering
- Getting sound back to the acoustic domain
- Adding the digital domain
- Analog to digital conversion
- Gain stages in the digital domain
- Dither
- Digital to analog conversion
- Digital formats and data compression
- How digital connections work
- Introducing the DAW
- Types of DAWs
- Effects plugins and virtual instruments
- Managing computer resources
- MIDI: Recording performances, not sounds
- How MIDI is communicated
- Storing and processing MIDI
- Levels, pan, and automation
- Monitoring levels while mixing
- Partials, harmonics, and equalization (EQ)
- Types of EQ components
- Compression and other dynamic processing
- Threshold, ratio, and four types of dynamic processors
- Attack and release in dynamic processors
- Reverb
- Characteristics of analog and digital
- Next steps
Taught by
Matt Mayfield
