MUS1593

This course will provide students with the understanding and skills to create music using computers as well as context for how the work they create relates to historic and current trends in music-making.

Topics covered include:
-Short overview of the history of electronic and recorded music and how the core ideas translate to current software: microphones, tape, synthesizers, drum machines, MIDI, etc.
-Basics of digital audio: underlying concepts as well as platform independent hardware and software setup demonstrations and digital audio file formats
-Basic musical terminology and concepts as they directly relate to DAW (digital audio workstation) software: tempo, bars, key, score, piano roll, rhythmic grid, etc.
-DAW Plugins: software instruments and effects
-How to record and edit MIDI
-How to record and edit audio
-Audio processing and transformation
-Mixing and arranging multi-track sessions: exporting and sharing
-Critical listening and analysis skills