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Part II. Audio and Music Software
Table of Contents
5. Audacity
5.1. Learn When to Use Audacity
5.2. Requirements and Installation
5.2.1. Software Requirements
5.2.2. Hardware Requirements
5.2.3. Install
5.2.4. Post-Install Test: Playback
5.2.5. Post-Install Test: Record
5.3. Configuration
5.3.1. Run Audacity for the First Time
5.3.2. Configure Audacity for Your Sound Card
5.3.3. Set the Project's Sample Rate and Format
5.4. Learn the Audacity Interface
5.5. Record
5.5.1. Start to Record
5.5.2. Continue to Record
5.6. Create a New Login Sound (Tutorial)
5.6.1. Files for the Tutorial
5.6.2. Scenario
5.6.3. Align Tracks
5.6.4. Stretching Tracks
5.6.5. Adjust the Volume Level
5.6.6. Remove Noise
5.6.7. Fade In or Out
5.6.8. Remove Some Audio
5.6.9. Repeat an Already-Recorded Segment
5.6.10. Add a Special Effect (the Phaser)
5.6.11. Conclusion
5.7. Save and Export
5.7.1. Export Part of a File
5.7.2. Export a Whole File
6. Digital Audio Workstations
6.1. Knowing Which DAW to Use
6.2. Stages of Recording
6.2.1. Recording
6.2.2. Mixing
6.2.3. Mastering
6.2.4. More Information
6.3. Interface Vocabulary
6.3.1. Session
6.3.2. Track and Multitrack
6.3.3. Region, Clip, or Segment
6.3.4. Transport and Playhead
6.3.5. Automation
6.4. User Interface
6.4.1. Messages Pane
6.4.2. Clock
6.4.3. Track Info Pane
6.4.4. Track Pane
6.4.5. Transport Controls
7. Ardour
7.1. Requirements and Installation
7.1.1. Knowledge Requirements
7.1.2. Software Requirements
7.1.3. Hardware Requirements
7.1.4. Installation
7.2. Recording a Session
7.2.1. Running
Ardour
7.2.2. The Interface
7.2.3. Setting up the Timeline
7.2.4. Connecting Audio Sources to
Ardour
7.2.5. Setting up the Busses and Tracks
7.2.6. Adjusting Recording Level (Volume)
7.2.7. Recording a Region
7.2.8. Recording More
7.2.9. Routing Audio and Managing
JACK
Connections
7.2.10. Importing Existing Audio
7.3. Files for the Tutorial
7.4. Editing a Song (Tutorial)
7.4.1. Add Tracks and Busses
7.4.2. Connect the Tracks and Busses
7.4.3. Add Regions to Tracks
7.4.4. Cut the Regions Down to Size
7.4.5. Compare Multiple Recordings of the Same Thing
7.4.6. Arrange Regions into the Right Places
7.4.7. Listen
7.5. Mixing a Song (Tutorial)
7.5.1. Setting the Session for Stereo Output and Disabling Edit Groups
7.5.2. Set Initial Levels
7.5.3. Set Initial Panning
7.5.4. Make Further Adjustments with an Automation Track
7.5.5. Other Things You Might Want to Do
7.5.6. Listen
7.6. Mastering a Session
7.6.1. Ways to Export Audio
7.6.2. Using the Export Window
8. Qtractor
8.1. View Requirements and Install
8.1.1. Knowledge Requirements
8.1.2. Software Requirements
8.1.3. Hardware Requirements
8.1.4. Other Requirements
8.1.5. Install
8.2. Configure Qtractor
8.2.1. Use
Qtractor
with
JACK
(
QjackCtl
)
8.2.2. Change Audio Options
8.2.3. Change MIDI Options
8.2.4. Configure MIDI Channel Names
8.3. Use Qtractor
8.3.1. Use the Blue Place-Markers
8.3.2. Use the MIDI Matrix Editor's Tools
8.3.3. Export a Whole File (Audio and MIDI Together)
8.3.4. Miscellaneous Tips
8.4. Create a MIDI Composition (Tutorial)
8.4.1. Inspiration
8.4.2. Get Files for the Tutorial
8.4.3. Prepare
Qtractor
8.4.4. Import the Audio File
8.4.5. Mark the First Formal Area
8.4.6. Create a Theme
8.4.7. Repeat the Theme
8.4.8. Compose the Next Part
8.4.9. Qtractor's Measures 52 to 75
8.4.10. Qtractor's Measures 75 to 97
8.4.11. Qtractor's Measure 97
8.4.12. Qtractor's Measures 98 to 119
8.4.13. Qtractor's Measures 119 to 139
8.4.14. Qtractor's Measures 139 to 158
8.4.15. Qtractor's Measures 158 to 176
8.4.16. Qtractor's Measures 177 to the End
9. Rosegarden
9.1. Requirements and Installation
9.1.1. Knowledge Requirements
9.1.2. Software Requirements
9.1.3. Hardware Requirements
9.1.4. Other Requirements
9.1.5. Installation
9.2. Configuration
9.2.1. Setup
JACK
and
FluidSynth
(
Qsynth
)
9.2.2. Setup
Rosegarden
9.3.
Rosegarden
and LilyPond
9.4. Write a Song in
Rosegarden
(Tutorial)
9.4.1. Start the Score with a Bass Line
9.4.2. Add a Percussion Track
9.4.3. Spice up the Percussion
9.4.4. Add a Melody
9.4.5. Possible Ways to Continue
10. FluidSynth
10.1. SoundFont Technology and MIDI
10.1.1. How to Get a SoundFont
10.1.2. MIDI Instruments, Banks, Programs, and Patches
10.1.3. MIDI Channels
10.2. Requirements and Installation
10.2.1. Software Requirements
10.2.2. Install
FluidSynth
10.2.3. Install with
Qsynth
10.2.4. Install without
Qsynth
10.2.5. Install SoundFont Files
10.3. Use
FluidSynth
in a Terminal Emulator
10.4. Configure
Qsynth
10.4.1. Start
FluidSynth
10.4.2. Configure the SoundFont
10.4.3. Configure
JACK
Output
10.4.4. Configure MIDI Input
10.4.5. View all
FluidSynth
Settings
10.5. Assign Programs to Channels with
Qsynth
10.5.1. Change the Number of MIDI Input Channels
10.5.2. Save and Reuse Channel Assignments
10.6. Use Reverb and Chorus with
Qsynth
10.7. Multiple
FluidSynth
Instances with
Qsynth
11.
SuperCollider
11.1. Requirements and Installation
11.1.1. Knowledge Requirements
11.1.2. Software Requirements
11.1.3. Hardware Requirements
11.1.4. Available
SuperCollider
Packages
11.1.5. Recommended Installation
11.2. Using
GEdit
to Write and Run
SuperCollider
Programs
11.2.1. Enable and Configure SCEd in
GEdit
11.2.2. Enable
SuperCollider
Mode and Start a Server
11.2.3. Executing Code in
GEdit
11.2.4. Other Tips for Using
GEdit
with
SuperCollider
11.3. Basic Programming in
SuperCollider
11.3.1. First Steps
11.3.2. Variables and Functions
11.3.3. Object-Oriented
SuperCollider
11.3.4. Sound-Making Functions
11.3.5. Multichannel Audio
11.3.6. Collections
11.3.7. Repeated Execution
11.3.8. Conditional Execution
11.3.9. Combining Audio; the Mix Class
11.3.10. SynthDef and Synth
11.3.11. Busses
11.3.12. Ordering and Other Synth Features
11.3.13. Scheduling
11.3.14. How to Get Help
11.3.15. Legal Attribution
11.4. Composing with SuperCollider
11.4.1. Files for the Tutorial
11.4.2. Inspiration
11.4.3. Designing the First Part
11.4.4. Designing the Second Part
11.4.5. Creating Ten Pseudo-Random Tones
11.4.6. Scheduling the Tones
11.4.7. Optimizing the Code
11.4.8. Making a Useful Section out of the Second Part
11.4.9. Joining the Two Parts
11.5. Exporting Sound Files
11.5.1. Non-Real-Time Synthesis
11.5.2. Recording SuperCollider's Output (Tutorial)
12. LilyPond
12.1. How LilyPond Works
12.2. Requirements and Installation
12.2.1. Learn about Frescobaldi
12.2.2. Requirements and Installation (for
Frescobaldi
)
12.3. Configure
Frescobaldi
12.4.
LilyPond
Basics
12.4.1. Letters Are Pitches
12.4.2. Numbers Are Durations
12.4.3. Articulations
12.4.4. Simultaneity
12.4.5. Chords
12.4.6. Commands
12.4.7. Source Files
12.4.8. How to Avoid Errors
12.5. Work on a Counterpoint Exercise (Tutorial)
12.5.1. Files for the Tutorial
12.5.2. Start the Score
12.5.3. Adjust Frescobaldi's Output
12.5.4. Input Notes
12.5.5. Format the Score
12.6. Work on an Orchestral Score (Tutorial)
12.6.1. Files for the Tutorial
12.6.2. Start the Score
12.6.3. Adjust Frescobaldi's Output
12.6.4. Input Notes
12.7. Work on a Piano Score (Tutorial)
12.7.1. Files for the Tutorial
12.7.2. Start the Score
12.7.3. Adjust Frescobaldi's Output
12.7.4. Input Notes
12.7.5. Troubleshoot Errors
12.7.6. Format the Score (Piano Dynamics)
13. GNU Solfege
13.1. Requirements and Installation
13.1.1. Hardware and Software Requirements
13.1.2. Other Requirements
13.1.3. Required Installation
13.1.4. Optional Installation: Csound
13.1.5. Optional Installation: MMA
13.2. Configuration
13.2.1. When You Run Solfege for the First Time
13.2.2. Instruments
13.2.3. External Programs
13.2.4. Interface
13.2.5. Practise
13.2.6. Sound Setup
13.3. Training Yourself
13.3.1. Aural Skills and Musical Sensibility
13.3.2. Exercise Types
13.3.3. Making an Aural Skills Program
13.3.4. Supplementary References
13.4. Using the Exercises
13.4.1. Listening
13.4.2. Singing
13.4.3. Configure Yourself
13.4.4. Rhythm
13.4.5. Dictation
13.4.6. Harmonic Progressions
13.4.7. Intonation
