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Chapter 5 Capturing and Editing Digital Audio Part 4 Music Creation © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

In this lecture, you will learn: the basics of creating music using MIDI the basics of creating music by composing loop music © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. 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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. MIDI Programs Cakewalk SONAR Steinberg Cubase MakeMusic! Finale © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

Cakewalk SONAR Staff View to work with notation and staff © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

Cakewalk SONAR Piano Roll View to visualize notes as they would appear on a player-piano roll © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

Cakewalk SONAR Event List View to work with a sequence of MIDI information © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

Cakewalk SONAR Assigning an Instrument to a MIDI Track © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. 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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Loop Music © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. 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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

Loop Music Example Programs Sony ACID Pro (Windows) Apple GarageBand (Mac OS) General digital audio editing programs: Adobe Audition Audacity © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

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 © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Sony ACID Pro 3 repetitions 2 repetitions © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Apple GarageBand 2 repetitions 1.5 repetitions 2.5 repetitions © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Adobe Audition 3 repetitions In mulltitrack view, set the loop option for a clip. Extend its duration to create repetitions. © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Audacity Use the effect called Repeat Repeat a selection of the audio for a specified number of times © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. 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. © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Review Question ___ deals with notations, staff, and musical instrument assignments. MIDI loop music A © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.

© 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved. Review Question What is the disadvantage of MIDI compared to composing music with loop music? How exactly the playback of the MIDI music sounds depends on the sound card that plays it. Thus, you do not have control over how exactly it sounds when other people play your MIDI file. © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc., Hoboken, NJ. All rights reserved.