Basic Music Technology - Video
by George Wheeler
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Description
This podcast is produced by CSULB faculty member George Wheeler and presents instruction on how to use computer based technology for music composition and audio production.
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| 1 | VideoAudacity Introduction | Audacity Introduction Transcription This movie introduces Audacity and some of its features. Audacity is a digital audio editor. That means it is a program that manipulates digital audio waveforms. So you can both record audio directly from within the p | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoBit Depth | Bit Depth Transcription In this movie were going to talk about bit depth When it comes to understanding bit depth, you must realize that we are talking about the dynamic range. So, a lower bit depth is a smaller dynamic range. Bit depth correlates to the | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoDigital Recording Process | Digital Recording Process Transcription In this movie we’ll talk about the digital recording process. Prior to this movie, we discovered how sound waves move through the air. And what a graphical representation of a waveform looks like. In Analog reco | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFinale Articulation Tool Part 1 | Finale Articulation Tool Part 1 Transcription This movie is about the articulation tool. That is the tool with a whole note and an accent over it. That’s how you add articulations into the piece. The simplest way to do it is to come over a note, doub | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoFinale Articulation Tool Part 2 | Finale Articulation Tool Part 2 Transcription If you want to do a whole group of articulations, you can hold down the metatool and drag. I hold down the S and drag over a region and all of the notes have staccatos marks. This will work if you can’t rem | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFinale Clef Tool | Finale Clef Tool Transcription Now we’re going to talk about the clef tool. The Clef Tool is used to change clefs after the initial clef is set. The initial clef is set in Staff Tool. I’m going to double click [on the upper LH box on a single staff] | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoFinale Document Options Part 1 | Finale Document Options Part 1 Transcription Now we’re going to look at Document Options, the options that you can set for each file you’re working on. To access them, again, I go under the Finale Menu > Preferences > Document Options. There is a sec | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoFinale Document Options Part 2 | Finale Document Options Part 2 Transcription The next category we are going to look at is Key Signatures. And here, you may want to not show, in other words you may want to turn off Cancel Outgoing Key signature. For example, if you’re going from D maj | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoFinale Expression Tool Part 1 | Finale Expression Tool Part 1 Transcription In this movie we’re going to talk about the articulation (Expression) tool. That’s the mezzo-forte here. And it’s undergone quite a change in Finale ’09. So like most of these tools you’re going to | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoFinale Expression Tool Part 2 | Finale Expression Tool Part 2 Transcription Now let me show you what happens if you want to put in a tempo marking. That’s going to go up here so I’m going to double-click; I’m going to go to tempo marks. I’m going to choose Allegro, quarter no | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoFinale Expression Tool Part 3 | Finale Expression Tool Part 3 Transcription Before we leave expressions I’m going to show you how to create some. So we’re going to go to the expression tool, and say for example, I would like the clarinet part marked “Lyrically.” I double-cli | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoFinale Expression Tool Part 4 | Finale Expression Tool Part 4 Transcription Alright I’ve moved the window over so you can see the plug-ins. I’m going to get the selection tool (off-screen) and select a bar. That’s where our new tempo is going to go. Under the plug-in window I | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoFinale Geography | Finale Geography Transcription I am going to give you a brief geography of Finale, a map of what you’re looking at on the screen. Up along the top are a series of menus. In this window [lower right], this is the document window where you work on your | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoFinale Import MIDI | Finale Import MIDI Transcription In this movie I’m going to show you how to import a MIDI file. You can try downloading MIDI files from the internet. They are plentiful. Not all of them are terribly useful, so you have to open them up and see what l | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoFinale Key Signature Tool Part 2 | Finale Key Signature Tool Part 2 Transcription C# minor is now in measure 4 and everything is working well. Now what if I want to take the whole piece up or down a certain amount. Let’s go down a whole step on the whol epiece. Go to measure 1 and doub | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoFinale Key Signature Tool Part 1 | Finale Key Signature Tool Part 1 Transcription Now we’re going to talk about the Key Signature Tool Make sure you have it selected. I am going to come over here and double click on an empty bar and it will bring up the Key Signature Dialog Box. At t | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoFinale Layers | Finale Layers Transcription In this movie we’re going to talk about layers. Layers are necessary when you want to have more than one thing going on in a bar at the same time. For example, in piano music you might have a chord on top and a line undern | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoFinale Margins | Finale Margins Transcription In this movie we’re going to talk about margins and adjusting margins. There are two kinds of margins in Finale. One is a page margin. So that would be the distance from the edge of the page to where the music starts, fr | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoFinale Manual | Finale Manual Transcription In this movie I’m going to show you a little bit about how to use the manual. Basically you come over to the help menu and go to the table of contents to get you into the manual. By the way if you have searched for somethi | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoFinale Miscellaneous | Finale Miscellaneous Transcription Alright in this last movie I’m just going to throw in a few miscellaneous things which should make some things a little easier for you. First of all viewing in concert pitch or transposed pitch. I have a piece here | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoFinale Meta Tools | Finale Meta Tools Transcription Metatools for Articulations and Expressions Transcription In this movie I’m going to show you how to save time. When you enter an expression or a dynamic it takes a lot of clicks. For example, I have expression tool se | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoFinale Music Spacing | Finale Music Spacing Transcription We’re going to look at ways that Finale will space the music for you. In other words, how much room, left to right, does the music take? That’s one of the nice things about computer programs. You can spend some t | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoFinale Parts Part 1 | Finale Parts Transcription Part 1 In this movie we’re going to talk about making parts. Finale can have linked parts which means the score and the parts are part of the same file. If you make a change in the score it will show in the parts and if you | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoFinale Parts Part 2 | Finale Parts Transcription Part 2 There are some quirks in scores and parts that I just want to show you. For example, I’m going to take this word legato. Do you see I moved it and it changed legato. I’m going to hit undo. There it’s green. I | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoFinale Plug-ins | Finale Plug-ins Transcription In this movie I’m going to talk to you about plug-ins. The plug-in architecture is wonderful. They are add-ons to the program. You get quite a few with Finale, but you can also find many online. Some of them are free, | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoFinale Program Options Part 1 | Finale Program Options Part 1 Transcription In this movie, we’re going to look at preference files. There are two main kinds of preferences in Finale: those that apply to all the documents that you open – those are program options – and those that | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoFinale Printing | Finale Printing Transcription Page Setup / Finale and Printer Transcription This movie is about getting your file setup to print. And specifically in setting up the page for Finale to know what to print on a page and for the printer to know what paper y | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoFinale Program Options Part 2 | Finale Program Options Part 2 Transcription Like other dialog boxes you have seen no, on the left are categories of choices and on the right, the information you would need in each category. For the most part, you will probably leave everything as-is | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoFinale Setup Wizard Part 1 | Finale Setup Wizard transcription In this movie, I am going to take you through the setup wizard in Finale. I am at the launch window now which will be, by default, what shows up when you first open the program and to get to the setup wizzrd just click t | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoFinale Resize Tool | Finale Resize Tool Transcription Resize Tool Transcription here | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoFinale Setup Wizard Part 2 | Finale Setup Wizard transcription Here I am going to set up the time signature and key signature. I am going to choose 4/4 and I’ll leave it in C major. Click next. And now I have the option of setting an initial tempo and I am going to do that. I am | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoFinale Simple Entry Part 1 | Finale Simple Entry Part 1 Transcription Now I’m going to talk about simple entry, a very easy way to get notes into Finale. This is actually quite a sophisticated tool, and you can use it and become a power user in it. For now I’m just going to sh | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoFinale Simple Entry Part 2 | Finale Simple Entry Part 2 Transcription Now I’m going to show you a few more things that you can do in simple entry. In this movie we’re going to talk about what you can type in on the keyboard rather than click in with the mouse. Clicking is a ve | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoFinale Slurs | Finale Slurs Transcription Slurs transcription here | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoFinale Staff Tool Part 1 | Finale Staff Tool Part 1 Transcription The first tool we’ll talk about is the staff tool. In it, you makes changes that apply to an entire staff, add or edit staves, and make groups. So, here we are with our clarinet and our piano part. This [pointing | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoFinale Staff Tool Part 2 | Finale Staff Tool Part 2 Transcription In a score, generally speaking, you’re going to want measure numbers to appear above the top line, and perhaps above the piano, but not above the piano left hand. So let’s check if they are set up that way. I a | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoFinale Text Tool | Finale Text Tool Transcription Text Tool Transcription here | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoFinale Time Signature Tool Part 1 | Finale Time Signature Tool Part 1 Transcription Now we’re going to talk about the Time Signature Tool, or how to change the meter in your piece. The tool for that has an icon that looks like a 4/4: pretty easy to find. I am going to double click on an | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoFinale Time Signature Tool Part 2 | Finale Time Signature Tool Part 2 Transcription One other fancy thing I can show you quickly, although if you are going to use it, you ought to check the manual, is Composite Time Signatures. Bartok loved these. Instead of 4/4 be might to 3+3+2 eighth no | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoFinale Views Part 1 | Finale Views Part 1 Transcription Now we’re going to look at the ways you can view your music in Finale. Under the view menu at the top, you’ll see three kinds of views: scroll, page, and studio. The check mark is by Studio and we are indeed in Studi | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoFinale Views Part 2 | Finale Views Part 2 Transcription To toggle between the two views, you can see over here on the right [under the view menu, by Scroll View and Page View], you can see on the Mac is it Cmd+E, on a PC it is Ctl+E. That will toggle the two views so I don’ | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoSample Rate | Sample Rate Transcription This movie is about sample rate Sample rate is measured in Hertz, which is a unit per second (samples/seconds). There is a direct correlation between how accurately sound is recorded and the sample rate. That is, the higher the | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoSound-Pressure Waves | Sound-Pressure Waves Transcription In this movie, I’m going to introduce how sound waves move through the air and describe the characteristics of a waveform. So, what is sound? Sound arrives at the ear in the form of variations in atmospheric pressure | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoWaveform Characteristics 1 | Waveform Characteristics 1 Transcription Now lets talk about waveform characteristics. These characteristics allow one waveform to be distinguished from another. The three most fundamental of these are wavelength, amplitude and frequency. Wavelength is t | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoWaveform Characteristics 2 | Waveform Characteristics 2 Transcription In this movie we will continue to explore waveform characteristics. In the previous movie I introduced the term frequency. Again, frequency refers to number of times a sound wave is repeated every second. So her | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 45 Episodes |
