You will learn how to capture, create and process digital audio using various digital audio workstations.
You will be shown how to apply audio effects, dynamics processors and equalisation to digital audio.
You will be shown how to route audio in both digital and analogue domains through the use of convential mixing desks, and the virtual studio environment.
You will be introduced to MIDI Technology and the different formats of MIDI data transfer. You will be introduced to MIDI sequencing and effects, and will be shown how to apply these to musical arrangements within a DAW.
You will be introduced to the fundamental principals of audio recording within a studio environment, utilising suitable microphones and digital audio recording facilities.

100% in-course assessment.

1. Create a piece of music using virtual studio technology, including presentation and report. (Learning Outcomes 3, 5, 6 and 7)
2. Create a piece of music utilising the studio environment, including interview and report (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7)

3 hours per week lecture/practical over 12 weeks in groups of 20.
Technical skills instruction. 3 hours in total (groups of 4) before beginning studio work.
0.5 hours per week drop-in surgery.

Making Music with Digital Audio - Ian Waugh, PC Publishing 1997, ISBN 1-870775-51-1
MIDI sequencing packages, Basic Midi - Paul White, Sanctuary Publishing 2000, ISBN, 1860742629
Handbook of MIDI sequencing, Dave Clackett, PC Publishing 1996, ISBN 1870775384
Introducing Digital Audio, 2nd edition, Ian Sinclair, PC Publ, 1991, ISBN 1-870775-22-8
Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8, David Nahmani, Peachpit Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0321502926
Logic Pro 8 Beyond the Basics, David Dvorin, Peachpit Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0321502889
Cubase SX Power,Robert Guerin, Muska and Lipman, ISBN 1 929 685858

None.

Suitable recording software and editing package (Cubase SX/VST)
Studios