FIRST ASSIGNMENT PREPARATION

This first in-class assignment is designed to get you comfortable with recording sound with your computer & INSIDE your computer.

1.) You should already have ADOBE AUDITION installed on your computer. Please make arrangements to have it installed and ready for class by Monday's meeting.

2M.) MAC USERS: Install soundflower. It will enable you to route audio from one program [LIKE YOUR BROWSER] to a audio recording program [LIKE ADOBE AUDITION]

https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases/download/2.0b2/Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg
 
You have to reboot after you install it for it to show up. It will show up in
AUDIO-MIDI SETUP

Go-->Utilities-->AudioMidiSetup

The idea is to select soundflower as the OUTPUT of the System so it can record internally

2W.) WINDOWS USERS: Install ASIO4ALL.
http://ccm.net/download/start/download-830-asio4all


3.) So go to http://www.freesound.org/ and get your 5 sounds working, designed. SPEND TIME making selections choosing something, designing something, be creative, be courageous. I will be able to tell if you just picked 5 sounds without any thought. And i am not talking about a zen "no thought" type of methodology. You know what i mean. We're cool.

When you switch to soundflower on mac the sound will disappear until you monitor it inside the Adobe Audition program. You will have to tweak the  preferences/options to get the sound to record into the program and still hear it at the same time. DO your best. We will go over it slowly on Monday if  you have trouble.

Windows users will have to tweak certain things in their sound preferences in both Windows and ASIO4ALL to get it to work properly. It takes a little tweaking but it will eventually work. Don't worry, we'll get you to a solution.


FOR FUN::
MAC USERS DOWNLOAD LNX STUDIO
http://lnxstudio.sourceforge.net/

WINDOWS USERS DOWNLOAD LMMS
https://lmms.io/

Everyone try Cecilia too and try to have some fun with sounds:
http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/cecilia/

We'll see which one everyone likes and we'll talk about it

Have fun.