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The audio workstation handbook / Francis Rumsey.

By: Rumsey, Francis.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Music technology series.Publisher: Oxford : Focal Press, 1996Description: xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0240514505.Subject(s): Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques | Computer sound processing | Sound studiosDDC classification: 621.3893
Contents:
Introduction to computer systems and terminology -- Digital audio -- Audio data reduction systems -- Data storage media -- Audio handling in the workstation -- File formats and data interchange -- Video in the audio workstation -- MIDI, sampling and synthesis for workstations.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 621.3893 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00070998
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ideal for all those needing to understand digital audio and the associated technologies used in these workstations. Topics covered include: basic computer terminoloty; digital audio; MIDI control and computer sound cards; audio workstation principles; mass storage devices; files atransfer and networking; audio intermaces; digital video. Francis Rumsey provides a thorough introduction to using digital audio workstations, with which it is possible to execute complete projects from initial conception, through mixing and post-production, to the final master. Sound tracks can be created and edited for films, TV, multimedia, computer games and the internet, integrated with pictures and computer data.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to computer systems and terminology -- Digital audio -- Audio data reduction systems -- Data storage media -- Audio handling in the workstation -- File formats and data interchange -- Video in the audio workstation -- MIDI, sampling and synthesis for workstations.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction to Computer Systems and terminology
  • Introduction to Digital Audio
  • Audio data reduction systems
  • Data storage media
  • The digital audio workstation
  • Recording and editing of audio on disk
  • Networking and interfacing
  • Video in the audio workstation
  • MIDI in the audio workstation
  • Audio in multimedia PC
  • Audio production
  • Audio CD mastering

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Professor of Sound Recording at the University of Surrey (UK) and a Visiting Professor at the School of Music in Piteå (Sweden). Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and a regular contributor to the AES Journal.

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