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Digital Audio Foundations

With Matt Mayfield Liked by 1,091 users
Duration: 3h 13m Skill level: Beginner Released: 4/22/2016

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Course details

Learn everything you need to know about working with digital audio. In this flagship course, author Matt Mayfield demonstrates a wide array of audio and music fundamentals. The lessons are designed for new musicians, songwriters, producers, and engineers; those making the leap from analog to digital; and professionals who need to brush up on a concept or two.

The course starts with explanations of what sound really is and how we hear it, including discussions on frequency, amplitude, phase, and psychoacoustics. Matt explores analog audio signal path, explaining connections, gain staging, and metering. Next, he brings the audio signal into the digital domain, discussing analog to digital conversion, digital gain staging, file formats and compression, and dither.

Then the course digs into digital audio workstations (DAWs), explaining the concepts and misconceptions involved in digital recording systems. Matt describes how memory, CPU speed, and storage affect your DAW's performance, as well as how to manage computer resources and understand the plethora of file formats associated with digital recording. He follows with an overview of MIDI: how to generate, store, process, and communicate MIDI data. He wraps up with the audio processors that are often used for mixing in a DAW—including EQ, compressors, reverb, delay, and many others.

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  • Bethany Ortiz Bethany Ortiz

    Bethany Ortiz

    MCBS Undergraduate. Let’s finish strong shall we?

    5/5 February 20, 2025
    Getting to know about Digital Audio to help me in my degree, has been so helpful and insightful.
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    Peter Schröppel

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    5/5 February 13, 2025
    Great information and easy to understand teacher.
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    Tom Goodhue

    Test Administrator and Proctor, Instructor for Graphic Arts, Media, Animation and Instructional Design

    5/5 July 4, 2024
    Very imforative and engaging
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Contents

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  • Test your knowledge 6 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone

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