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By Cheyenne Morgan 

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) 

Unit 1- Set up and operate a DAW Slide2

What is an digital audio workstation 

Early daws, such as those developed in the 1970s and 1990s, were hardware units that include a mixing console , data storage device, and an analog to digital converter (ADC). They could be used to record, edit, and play back digital audio.

Cubase

Logic

Garage band Slide3

Strengths and weaknesses of Cubase 

Cubase is a digital audio recording program for Mac and PC. The program allows you to record and mix original music, whether for fun or on a professional basis. Though Cubase has many competitors, the software offers some distinct advantages that set it apart in the world of digital audio workstations.

In addition to the included instruments and effects, you can customize your Cubase software by adding external VST plug-ins. If you want more effects options, better virtual synthesizers or more versatile equalizers, just download the necessary plug-ins and add them to your Cubase VST

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How to get into Cubase 

Opening Cubase and creating a new project

Step 1: go to start and click on all programs.

Step 2: go to music and go to Cubase.Slide5

Step 3

: once you get to this page click on more and the click on empty then press crate.

Step 4: once you clicked create then this should come then if it your into Cubase. Slide6

What is MIDI 

MIDI short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface is a technical standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors and allows a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another.Slide7

What are the benefits of MIDI 

Advantages File sizes are smallerAll aspects of the sound can be editedEffects can be applied to individual instruments

No interference or background noise during recordingCan use to create music without need for different musicians / instruments

DisadvantagesDependent on quality of sound card for overall soundCan not store vocals

Effects are limited

Less realistic sounds than actual instrumentsSlide8

What is audio file 

There are a number of different

types of Audio files. The most common are Wave files (wav) and MPEG Layer-3 files (mp3). There are, however, many other audio file types discussed below. The type is usually determined by the file extension.Slide9

What are benefits of audio files The Advantages

So having your 24 bit recordings in 32 bit floating point format will not change the quality of the initial recordings themselves, but creating audio files in this format before they are processed by plug-ins will help you avoid the following:Clipping during

Audio Suite rendering

Unnecessary noise introduced by Audio Suite dithering

Rounding errors during signal processing

These issues then are mostly caused by the fact that with either 16 or 24 bit audio the data requires conversion at the point of processing

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The

Disadvantages

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, it is a ‘good thing’ from a quality point of view to have your audio in the 32 bit floating point format from the start, but is there a downside? 32 bit files are 50% bigger than their 24 bit counterparts, and 100% bigger than the 16 bit equivalent. For example, 60 seconds of 44.1 kHz mono 16 bit audio will take up roughly 5 MB of hard drive space and require a data throughput of

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These figures will double at 32 bit. Still not huge numbers by today’s standards maybe, but 10 minutes of a 64 (mono) track session recorded at 32 bit and 192 kHz will take up roughly 28 GB and require data throughput of 48 MB/s just to play back.Slide10

The differences between audio and MIDI MIDI was quite something when it first arrived in the early 1980s. It is still very much around today, although we don't tend to work quite as directly with it as before. MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is now mostly hidden 'under the hood'. But still it is very useful to know about what it is and what it can

do. When you record an audio signal, then the acoustic or electronic waveform that the instrument produces is captured directly. The recording is a representation of the sound the instrument actually made, and will be different according to whether the instrument was, say, a violin or a trumpet. An audio signal is recorded on an audio track of a digital audio workstation software. Slide11

Connecting audio

Audio interface Keyboard Microphone

USB port

Audio interface

Synth. Plugs into line in of audio interface this uses a jack cable.

Microphone. Plugs into micro phone input of audio interface. This uses a XLR cable. Slide12

Connecting MIDI Equipment 

USB port

Computer

Midi drum pads

Midi keyboard

Midi out

Midi in

Midi out

Midi out

Midi cable

Midi USB cable Slide13

Setting up midi 

Once you get into Cubase right click and go to add mid track

Then once this comes up press no vst instrument then go down to synth Slide14

When this comes up go to the black boxes click and go to all midi inputs.

And then once this comes up you can start recording Slide15

Audio set up

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When this comes up go to devises and go down to VST connections.

Go to io2 (io1 +io2) and your done with what you are doing. Slide16

Then right click the grey area and go down to add Audio track.

Go to the black boxes and click on it and It will say left or right click on left.Slide17

Now you will have your audio track as you can see.

Now you can start recording and as you can see the blue lines will go up to how hard you are playing your instrument.