INTRO TO DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS

Card set built to help understand basic level digital audio workstations

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What is a DAW?
Digital Audio Workstation
Analog Recording is...
Continuous because the waveform is constantly being printed on the physical piece of tape
What does a digital audio interface do?
Turns analog audio into digital audio
Signal going out of its own track and into others is called ...
Over Print
What is natural tape compression
Tape's natural ability to saturate or compress the waveforms being printed to it
Analog Audio becomes a __________ when it becomes Digital
Base 2 Binary Code
A DAW MUST be able to do what 3 things
Record, Playback, and Edit
Peak is a DAW program that does what?
Stereo Editing. It can only edit one stereo (left and right) track at a time.
DAWs like Logic and Pro Tools can do what type of editing
Multi Track Editing
What is Digital Audio?
The digital transmission, reception and storage of audio signals
A signal is still Analog up through what point in the flow of the signal?
The anti aliasing filter. After this point the signal is digital.
What does Sample/Hold do
It takes a snapshot of the analog signal and sends it to the Analog to Digital Converter to be converted
What is Sampling?
The act of recording an audio waveform digitally.
What is Sampling Rate?
This is how we measure the time aspect of the digital audio. The sampling Rate is the number or Measurements (Samples) that are taken of an analog signal in one second
What does a Higher Sampling Rate yield?
an increased upper-frequency limit