Digital Media Primer YueLing Wong Copyright c2013 by
"Digital Media Primer" Yue-Ling Wong, Copyright (c)2013 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 1
Chapter 5 Capturing and Editing Digital Audio Part 3 Music Creation 2
In this lecture, you will learn: • the basics of creating music using MIDI • the basics of creating music by composing loop music 3
Types of Music Creation • MIDI: – create original music scores – require musical composition skills • Loop music composition – compose a long musical audio through repetitions of short musical clips – common in projects that do not require a long musical score, for example: • game development, product advertisements, digital art projects – allow non-music composers to create musical audio 4
MIDI Not sampled audio Like sheet music Constains instructions for recreating the music Created by editing music notations and instrument assignments • Can also be created by recording your performance on a MIDI keyboard connected to a computer • Playback of a MIDI file requires a sound card that uses the synthesizer to recreate the sound of notes • • 5
MIDI Programs • Cakewalk SONAR • Steinberg Cubase • Make. Music! Finale 6
Views in Cakewalk SONAR • Staff view: to work with notation and staff • Piano Roll view: to visualize notes as they would appear on a player-piano roll • Event List view: to work with a sequence of MIDI information 7
Cakewalk SONAR Staff View to work with notation and staff 8
Cakewalk SONAR Piano Roll View to visualize notes as they would appear on a player-piano roll 9
Cakewalk SONAR Event List View to work with a sequence of MIDI information 10
Cakewalk SONAR Assigning an Instrument to a MIDI Track 11
MIDI Playback • Requires a sound card that uses the synthesizer to recreate the sound of notes • Not all synthesizers produce the same sound • Disadvantage: How the music actually sounds during playback depends on the sound card 12
Loop Music 13
Loop Music • Music that is created from short music clips that are repeated • Usually designed to loop seamlessly • Libraries of clips for loop music are commercially available 14
Loop Music Example Programs • Sony ACID Pro (Windows) • Apple Garage. Band (Mac OS) • General digital audio editing programs: – Adobe Audition – Audacity 15
Composing Music Using Loop Music • Programs support multi-track • Import an audio clip to place on a track • Create repetitions of a clip placed on a track simply by dragging its right edge to extend it • You can adjust the volume of each track to fade in or out the clips 16
Sony ACID Pro 3 repetitions 2 repetitions 17
Apple Garage. Band 2 repetitions 1. 5 repetitions 2. 5 repetitions 18
Adobe Audition 3 repetitions In mulltitrack view, set the loop option for a clip. Extend its duration to create repetitions. 19
Audacity • Use the effect called Repeat • Repeat a selection of the audio for a specified number of times 20
Review Questions Note to instructor: Depending on your preference, you may want to go over the review questions at the end of this lecture as an instant review or at the beginning of next lecture to refresh students' memory of this lecture. 21
Review Question ___ deals with notations, staff, and musical instrument assignments. A. MIDI B. loop music 22
Review Question What is the disadvantage of MIDI compared to composing music with loop music? 23
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