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Music Music Fundamentals Digital Audio

Acoustic, Analog and Digital Signals Explained

Understand how to set up digital audio via a basic knowledge of the theory of acoustic, analog and digital signals.
Highest Rated
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (48 ratings)
908 students
Created by Max Porcelli
Last updated 10/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Comprehensive Presentation Lectures
  • Understand the Differences between Acoustic, Analog and Digital Signals
  • Analog to Digital Conversion
  • Recording and Playback in a Digital System
  • Conversions and Dithering
  • Audio Driver and Buffer
  • Audio Card Setup

Requirements

  • No requirements are needed except your musical passion and curiosity.
  • A computer, a tablet or Smartphone with Internet

Description

Audio Enthusiast: Make Better Music With Sound Card Mastery!

What an analog signal? How does the analog to digital conversion process work? What about digital fundamentals? And what is the digital to analog audio converter? And the quantization? With this course, you will be able to answer all these questions and more!

At the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
  • the differences between acoustic, analog and digital signals;
  • what is an analog signal;
  • the sampling process;
  • the quantization process;
  • bit depth and dithering;
  • the quantization noise;
  • the analog to digital conversion;
  • the digital to analog converter;
  • driver and buffer setup.

To achieve this goal, the course will start from the very beginning: we will talk about what an acoustic signal is and how it can be properly transformed, recorded and played back in a digital system through the analog to digital audio converter. I will also give you some quizzes to do to confirm what you have learned during the various sections of the course. And, if you want to go into more depth in some particular topics, a couple of external resources are also included in the course lectures.

Starting as it does from scratch, this course is intended for everybody. No requirements are needed except your musical passion and curiosity. It aims to introduce all the basic theory to understand the sampling process, the playback or mixdown of digital audio material through your digital audio card.

If you are a producer, a DJ or a musician or if you use a so called DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Fruity Loops or a DJ software like Traktor, Serato or Virtual DJ, this course will explain how and why some setting could or should be applied to your audio card or software configuration. However, if you are already an audio engineer, this course is not for you.

It is the very first module of all the music and DJing courses I teach so it starts from the very beginning and you don’t need to know anything about the topic to start . Basically, it introduces a conscious management of audio signals through digital devices regardless of the brand or software used. Even your smartphone is based on the theory here explained.

Generally speaking, it’s a good thing to know how an audio card works if an audio card is used during the management of digital audio content. Whether you are an audio newbie or an enthusiast or if you want a conscious knowledge of your audio card, this course is for you.

Also remember: Udemy's lifetime free access to the course and full 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. Enrol Now!

Who this course is for:

  • Producers
  • DJs or Musicians
  • Audio and Video Creators
  • Podcasters & Broadcasters
  • DAW Users (Cubase, Logic, Fruity Loops... )
  • Audio Editor Users (Audacity, Wavelab, SoundForge... )

Course content

5 sections • 26 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Preview02:59
  • Preview03:26
  • Frequency and the Human Hearing Range
    02:22
  • Preview02:09
  • Complete Acoustics Session Script Pdf
    5 pages
  • Acoustics Signals Quiz
    9 questions

  • Introduction to Analog Signals
    02:54
  • Analog Basic Parameters
    02:12
  • Complete Analog Session Script Pdf
    2 pages
  • Analog Signals Quiz
    8 questions

  • Introduction to Digital Signals
    02:45
  • Recording and Playback in a Digital System
    03:28
  • The Sample & Hold Circuit
    02:08
  • The Nyquist/Shannon Theorem
    02:24
  • Aliasing and Antialiasing Filter
    02:07
  • Complete Digital Session A - Sampling Script Pdf
    6 pages

  • Quantization
    02:43
  • Linear Quantization
    02:42
  • Quantization Error
    02:13
  • Dither
    02:43
  • Topics Summary
    01:46
  • Complete Digital Session B - Quantization Script Pdf
    4 pages
  • Digital Signals Quiz
    15 questions

  • Preview04:41
  • Buffer and Buffer Size
    04:05
  • General Summary and Final Conclusions
    02:56
  • Audio Chain Plugins
    2 pages
  • Complete Driver and Buffer Session Script Pdf
    4 pages
  • Bonus Lecture
    00:14

Instructor

Max Porcelli
Steinberg Certified Trainer - 989 Records A&R - HGD Resident
Max Porcelli
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 1,508 Reviews
  • 7,809 Students
  • 3 Courses

Max Porcelli is a Steinberg Certified Trainer, DJ, Producer and Remixer with a degree in Multimedia and Technological Sciences. Since 2007 he's been running the Educational Division of 989Records, an independent electronic record label producing a variety of electronic music genres and working with many artists from around the globe. The aim of the division is to develop electronic music culture and all its related technologies. 

989Records head honcho, Max started his musical career in 1989 and is currently one of the most active and chameleonic producers of the Italian electronic scene, with almost 70 singles, EP, albums and remixes already produced and published. Over the years, he has worked with Pacha Recordings Ibiza, Deep Class and several important Italian labels such Rise, Absolutely, Airplane, Molto Rec, remixing artists like Inaya Day, Angie Brown (Incognito), Jocelyn Brown, Cheryl Porter, Oliver Cheatham (Room 5) and many others. 

Having followed hundreds of students during his educational activities, Max has become a point of reference for many musicians, DJs, producers and enthusiasts in the northeast of Italy.

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