University of Miami

MTC 567/667 Q Electronic Composition of Music Seminar

• Course Syllabus
• Studio Policies and Procedures - This si the packet that must be studied and learned by those seeking studio access.
• Mixer Manual - Here is the manual for the mixing console in our studio

MTC 521 P Multimedia For Musicians

• Course Syllabus
• Lecture 1 - This is our notes for the introduction to the internet, html, hypertext, links, and web pages.
• First Page - Here is the page we started for our first exposure to html
• Second Page - Example with image and table
• Third Page - Going further with tables
• Fourth Page - Buttons, banners, and patterns
• Audio Files - A description of common audio file types

MTC 506 D MIDI Control Systems

• Course Syllabus
• Lecture 1 - What is MIDI and how does it work?
• The MIDI Specification - This is a good online resource for understanding the MIDI protocol.
• Lecture 2 - How the MIDI Protocol encodes information in binary in binary code.
• Pd .41.4 - PD for Windows
• PD Example 1 - First PD example, midi note in and getting sound
• PD Example 2 - Here is a basic instrument that receives 2 note polyphony
• PD Example 3 - Some ideas for using MIDI objects to manipulate MIDI data
• PD Example 4 - Here are the MIDI in and MIDI out panels I demonstrated in class
• PD Example 5 - An example of taking MIDI data in and manipulating it before sending it out again
• PD Example 6 - Here is the example that I made in class that has a looping
• PD Example 7 - this is the envelope example that I made in class.
array with a midi note in
• PD Example 8 - Here is the reading, writing, opening, and saving example

MTC 507 D Digital Sound Synthesis

• Course Syllabus - Policy and grading information
• 1st Instrumenta> - Our first Csound instrument
• Power of 2 Chart - Power of 2 Reference Chart for bit resolution understanding
• WavetableHere's a function table example using gen7
• 2nd Instrument - Our second in class example
• Gen Basics - Generation of function tables
• 3rd Instrument - Our 3rd Csound class example
• Chrous - Chorus - example of frequency useage and mixing of signals
• Stereo Pan - Channels and panning control
• 4th Instrment - Basic MIDI opcodes
• Midi Basics - Basic MIDI instrument
• 5th Instrment - MIDI controllers
• 6th Instrment - Basic additive envelope techniques
• 7th Instrument - Here's our first subtractive instrument
• filtered Noise - Subtractive Synthesis example
• 8th Instrument - This is our first sample instrument with some subtractive filtering
• 9th Instrument - Here is an FM example instrument more below
• FM - A collection of FM instruments
• 10th Instrument - Here is random number generator, more below
• Random - Random, an example of variable usage
• Noise Rand - Here is an example of rand and noise production.
• 11th Instrument - Another random number example
• PM - Physical modeling examples from the manual
• 12th Instrument - this is the granular synthesis examples 1 and 2 from the manual
• Final Instruments - Here is the list of instrument types for the final

MTC 148 R Electronic Music Ensemble

• Course Syllabus
• Fall 2006 Concert Program
• Spring 2007 Concert Program
• Fall 2007 Concert Program
• Spring 2008 Concert Program
• Csounds.com - Get Csound and get creative
• Pure Data - Everyone in the ensemble should expose themselves to Pure DAta. It's powerful computer music software with a lot of outside development going on. It's free, too.
• Supercollider - This is another freeware software that you should get to know. There's a PC version called aPsycollider that is the same thing.
• Sourceforge - Sourceforge is a great site with downloads of open source software. Tehre is a lot of powerful open source music software out there. This includes all the names listed above.

Miami-Dade College

MUM 2600 Sound Recording I

• Course Syllabus
• Course Materials
• Lecture 1 - Introduction the recording studio
• Lecture 2 - The completed summary of terms for chapter 2 (The Physics of Sound)
• Mid Term - Here's the midterm to help review for the final
• Lecture C - Additional notes about my supplemental lecture on analog and digital signals and media.
• Quiz 1 - Take home quiz due on 3-16-2009
• Lecture 3 - Lecutre notes for chapter3
• Qyuz 2 - Our second quiz on chapter 3
• Lecture 4 - Outline of terms for the microphone chapter, chapter 4
• Lecture 5 - Digital Audio Technology chapter 5 of the book
• Cable Types - A summary of analog and digital cable types

MUM 2600 L Sound Recording I Lab

• Course Syllabus
• Assignment 1 - Instructions
• Assignment 1 - mp3 file
• Assignment 2 - Instructions
• Assignment 3 - Drum Mix
• Assignment 4 - Piano Mix
• Assignment 5 - Score for our session
• Assignment 5 - mp3 example for session

MUM 2600 Sound Recording I

• Course Syllabus - The course syllabus - grading and policies
• Concert Attendance - Concert attendance writing requirements.
• Part 1 - Introductory material about musical elements and performance.
• Part 2 - Early music, the medieval and renaissance eras.