Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Sound Design/Musique Concrete Assignment

Assignments

  1. Transfer all audio collected over the break to Pro Tools and edit your sounds.

Name your PT session: (your name)_Sound Design 1

To Import your recordings from your Pure Digital camera, do the following:

  • Plug the Pure Digital camera into the USB drive on the front of your computer (NOT the one on your keyboard).
  • Go to File>Import>Audio
  • Navigate to the Pure Digital icon (it should show up in the left panel).
  • Go into the folder called "DCIM"
  • Scroll down until you see the files that end with .AVI
  • Single-click on the first.AVI file
  • Now scroll down to find the last .AVI file. Single-click on that.
  • Click on the Convert All button.
  • Click Done.
  • Now choose between "New Track" or "Region Bin". THINK very carefully before you hit OK! What is going to happen when you choose either of these options? Which is better for your workflow? Your call...
2. Edit your recordings down to the sounds you want to use and place these on a new mono audio track labeled "Edits". Sounds can be short (a door slamming), or long (the wind blowing through trees). Just remember that you’re going to be making a musique concrete “song” using these sounds, so make sure that they’re usable.

3. Practice and show the instructor an example of each of the following processes:
    1. Pitch shifting
    2. Reversing a sound using the Audio Suite plugin
    3. Inserting a reverb or other effect on the sound
4. Compose a musique concrete piece (45 sec.- 1 min) using your edited sounds. Be sure to include ambience.

5. Bounce your final songs out of Pro Tools and put them in the folder called "Sound Design songs" in the Instructor Share folder. Use the following format:

-File name: (Your name)_Sound Design song
-AIF file format
-Stereo Interleaved
-Sample rate = 48,000 Hz
-Bit depth = 16 bit

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