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Project Description
You are given an audio recording of a voice reading the letters of the alphabet in random order. You are asked to:
1) Edit the recording, putting the letters into alphabetical order
3) Pan the letters alternately left and right
4) Add an effect to the letters panned right
5) Create a stereo mix of your track
6) Create an mp3 of the result
7) Upload the mp3 to your soundcloud account and post a link on the student work data base
Part 1: Set Up Your Work Folder and Files
•On a Music Technology Lab Mac, close all applications (except your browser), and make sure the active application is the Finder.
The active application is named at the left of the top menu bar.
•Open your Documents folder.
Documents is in the Home folder, Shift-Command-H.
Don't use your H Drive for audio work, use a local file, then back up in H Drive.
•Access the File menu, and select New Folder.
This will create a new untitled folder in the Documents folder.
•Rename the new folder Alphabet Project.
This is your project folder. You will want to keep all the files for this project in this folder.
•At the top of this page, locate the link to the Voice Audio File and download it to the project folder you just created.
To do this, hold down the control key, then click on the link, resulting in a "contextual menu." Choose Download Linked File As... and, in the resulting window, navigate to your project folder. Once there, click Save, and it will put a file called alpha.aif into your project folder.
On a Mac, control-click is the equivalent of right-click.
If that doesn't work, just click the link to download to your Downloads folder, then move the resulting file(s) to your new project folder.
•Open your project folder and find the icon for the alpha.aif file.
•In Studio One, create a new Song, and save it to your project folder. Name the Song Alphabet Project.
•In your Studio One Song, create mono tracks, named Original, Left, and Right.
•From your project folder, import alpha.aif to the Original track. Test to make sure it's there and you can here it.
You should hear the voice reading the alphabet this way--
C W E Q I M V A P F T K J Z U B R D H X G O S N Y L
Part 2: Re-Order the Letters
•In Studio One, find and highlight the audio for letter A, and make it into a separate region. Name it A.
•Move (or Copy) the region A into the left-most point of track Left.
•Similarly, locate and highlight audio for the letter B. Make it into a region named B.
•Move (or Copy) the region B into the Left track, then move it so that it starts right as the region A finishes.
We'd say region A "butts up against" region B. This is a common occurrences in DAW-work, we will investigate doing this is Studio One together.
•Continue through the alphabet until the left track contains all letters in alphabetical order.
Part 3: Set Pan Controls and Drag Audio Clips to Alternate Letter
At this point, mute the Original track to silence it.
•Now Pan the Left track all the way to the Left, and the Right track all the way to the right.
•Highlight the letter B region and drag it to the Right track constraining its horizontal movement.
Typically in a DAW, you'd constrain dragging by holding down the shift key as you drag, or setting a large grid.
•Playback, and make sure A comes out of the left and B comes out of the right.
•Continue through the project dragging alternate clips to the Right track to create a "checkerboard" between the two tracks.
Part 4: Add An Effect To The Right-Hand Track
•Now add an effect to the Right track (e.g. Reverb) to differentiate it from the Left track.
You are welcome to get creative with this step, although we will have ample opportunity to play with, er, I mean, employ important audio effect in future project.
Part 5: Export and Distribute
•Play back your project and make sure it sounds correct.
You are welcome to add compression or other mastering effects at this point, though it it not required.
•Export your Song as an MP3 file. Make sure you name it using your first and last name and alphabet in the file name.
At this point, employ good file management. Make sure your project files are stored safely off your lab Mac.
•Upload your finished MP3 to your soundcloud account.
•Post the link to your soundcloud file to the Student Work data base. |