1. "Digital Media Primer" Yue-Ling Wong, Copyright (c)2013 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

2. Chapter 5 Capturing and Editing Digital Audio
Part 3
Music Creation

3. In this lecture, you will learn:
the basics of creating music using MIDI
the basics of creating music by composing loop music

4. 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

5. 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

6. MIDI Programs
Cakewalk SONAR
Steinberg Cubase
MakeMusic! Finale

7. 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

8. Cakewalk SONAR Staff View
to work with notation and staff

9. Cakewalk SONAR Piano Roll View
to visualize notes as they would appear on a player-piano roll

10. Cakewalk SONAR Event List View
to work with a sequence of MIDI information

11. Cakewalk SONAR Assigning an Instrument to a MIDI Track

12. 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

13. Loop Music

14. 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

15. Loop Music Example Programs
Sony ACID Pro (Windows)
Apple GarageBand (Mac OS)
General digital audio editing programs:
Adobe Audition
Audacity

16. 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

17. Sony ACID Pro
3 repetitions
2 repetitions

18. Apple GarageBand
2 repetitions
1.5 repetitions
2.5 repetitions

19. Adobe Audition 3 repetitions
In mulltitrack view, set the loop option for a clip.
Extend its duration to create repetitions.

20. Audacity Use the effect called Repeat
Repeat a selection of the audio for a specified number of times

21. 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.

22. Review Question
___ deals with notations, staff, and musical instrument assignments.
MIDI
loop music A

23. 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.