Unit Breakdown draft

Unit Breakdown Draft

Revised 7⁄6

Approximately 15 weeks

  1. Sound Basics

    • Noise Continuum
    • Frequency (Pitch)
    • Intensity (Amplitude)
    • Tone Quality/Timbre
    • Basic Waveform Types

  2. Digital Audio Basics

    • Bit Depth and Sample Rate
    • ADC/DAC
    • Limitations, Artifacts, and Other Characteristics
    • Nyquist
    • Aliasing
    • Storage
    • Clipping

  3. The Studio as a Compositional Tool

  4. Musique Concrète and Tape-Based Music
    Culminates in Mini Composition 1

  5. Analysis

  6. MIDI

  7. Synths

  8. Microphones

  9. FX and Plugins

    • EQ
    • Compression
    • Reverb
    • Insert vs Bus vs Aux