Agenda
- Sound
- Sound as waves
- Digitizing sound
- Compression
- MIDI
- Sound editing
Sound as waves
- Amplitude
- Frequency
(20 Hz - 20 kHz) - Waveforms
- Perception
Digitizing sound
- Sampling
- Quantization
- Dithering
Compression
- Speech compression
- Companding
(non-linear quantization)
Compression
- Perceptually based compression
- Threshold for hearing
- Masking tones
MIDI
- A digital orchestra
- Think sheet music
- General MIDI provides 128 voice names