Course Content
Audio Interfacing
- Audio interface basics
- Mac OS X audio setup
- Windows setup
- Testing inputs and outputs with Audition (Mac or Windows)
- Using external interfaces
The Audition Environment
- Audition's dual personality
- The Audition Workspace
- Navigation
Basic Editing
- Opening a file for editing
- Selecting a region for editing and changing its level
- Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions
- Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards
- Extending and shortening musical selections
- Simultaneous mixing and pasting
- Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop
- Showing waveform data under the cursor
- Fading regions to reduce artifacts
Signal Processing
- Effects basics
- Using the Effects Rack
- Amplitude and Compression effects
- Delay and echo effects
- Filter and EQ effects
- Modulation effects
- Noise reduction/restoration
- Reverb effects
- Special effects
- Stereo imagery effects
- Time and Pitch effect
- Third-party effects (VST and AU)
- Using the Effects menu
- Managing presets
Audio Restoration
- About audio restoration
- Reducing hiss
- Reducing crackles
- Reducing pops and clicks
- Reducing broadband noise
- De-humming a file
- Removing artifacts
- Manual artifact removal
- Alternate click removal
- Sound removal
Mastering
- Mastering basics
- equalization
- dynamics
- ambience
- stereo imaging
- "push" the drum hits; then apply the changes
- Mastering diagnostics
Sound Design
- About sound design
- Creating rain sounds
- Creating a babbling brook
- Creating insects at night
- Creating an alien choir
- Creating sci-fi machine effects
- Creating an alien drone flyby
- Extracting frequency bands
Creating and Recording Files
- Recording into the Waveform Editor
- Recording into the Multitrack Editor
- Checking remaining free space
- Drag-and-dropping into an Audition Editor
- Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD
- Importing tracks as a single file from an audio CD
- Saving a template
Multitrack Editor Orientation
- About Multitrack production
- Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration
- Changing track colors
- Loop selections for playback
- Track controls
- Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor
- Side-chaining effects
The Multitrack Mixer View
- Mixer view basics
Editing Clips
- Creating a DJ-style continuous music mix (mixtape) with crossfading
- Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file
- Selecting and merging all clips in a track into a single file
- Editing for length
- Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume
- Extending a clip via looping
Creating Music with Sound Libraries
- About sound libraries
- Getting started
- Building a rhythm track
- Adding percussion
- Adding melodic elements
- Using loops with different pitch and tempo
- Adding effects
Recording in the Multitrack Editor
- Getting ready to record a track
- Setting up the metronome
- Recording a part in a track
- Recording an additional part (overdub)
- "Punching" over a mistake
- Composite recording
Automation
- About automation
- Clip automation
- Track automation
Mixing
- About mixing
- Testing participants acoustics
- The mixing process
- Exporting a stereo mix of the song
- Burning an audio CD of the song
- Exporting to SoundCloud
