1. Laptop Instrument
Meeting 1
January 17, 2018

2. Equipment Introduction
Chair
Keyboard trays
Keyboards – computer, piano
Headphones & wires
Plastic music stands
Making everything work in harmony

3. Your Laptop What’s visible? What’s inside? Sound card
Which works like this:

4. Information In
Long bit strings

5. Sound Out Analogue experience Speakers How does the ear hear? Built-in
External
Available connections?

6. Exploring the Sound Card
What does your laptop tell you about its sound card?
Where to start?
What do the terms mean?
Mac: Click Apple; About This Mac; System Report; Audio

7. Digital Analog Converter (DAC)
What should a DAC do?
How does it do it?

8. Computer Programs What is a computer program?
How is a computer program
created?
executed?
tested?
debugged?

9. Course Software ChucK Notepad++ BBEdit Chuck.cs.princeton.edu
Download Version
Notepad++
Notepad-plus-plus.org
Download Version 7.5.4
BBEdit
Bare Bones Software
Download Version 12.1 (as a demonstration download)

10. Installing ChucK Visit http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu Download ChucK
Test Installation

11. First Music Theory Topics
Staves
Clefs
Octaves
Pitches