All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'music'
Audio advice tagged 'music'
Free Online Audio Editors
There is a wide range of both free and commercial software which you can install onto your computer to record and edit digital audio, whether for podcast or music production. But what if you don't have the ability to install software on your machine, or it isn't powerful or fast enough for the task, or there isn't enough space, or if you simply don't want to?
For simple audio editing and processing tasks there are now a few versatile audio tools which you can access online via their providers' websites, and which run on remote servers while you remotely operate their interface through your familiar web browser, and stream audio to and from them via the internet.
Read full advice document...Headphone Guide
A guide to the types of headphones available for various listening tasks, their features, strengths, weaknesses and relative merits. This guide is intended to help users choose the best type of headphones for their needs.
Read full advice document...Creating an Audio Ident
This paper discusses some of the design considerations and practicalities when using and/or creating idents for audio resources. The paper is divided into two halves - the first offers an overview of audio idents, discussing areas including when idents can be effective, and the types of sounds that can be used in idents. The second provides a how-to guide on constructing and adding idents to existing spoken word recordings using the software Audacity.
Read full advice document...AAC Audio and the MP4 Media Format
A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
Read full advice document...Choosing an Audio Interface - Technical Considerations
Explanation of the various specifications quoted for computer audio interfaces, and their relevance to functionality and sound quality.
Read full advice document...Choosing an Audio Interface - Project Requirements
The implications of different types of audio and video project for your choice of audio computer interface.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'music'
Finding Subject-Specific Digital Media Resources
There are a multitude of websites providing access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a VLE (virtual learning environment). The purpose of this document is to provide a subject-specific guide to finding digital media resources with links to a number of useful websites.
Read full advice document...Finding Video, Audio and Images Online
There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
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Blog entries tagged 'music'
A right knees-up and no mistaking
Comedian Roy Hudd donates his huge collection of music-hall sheet music to UEA.
Read blog entry...ProTools opens up
Avid adds open standard compliance to their industry-standard audio software.
Read blog entry...Finding free music online - SoundCloud’s new CC features
As mentioned in our new tutorial Internet for Audio Resources and our document Finding Video, Audio and Images Online, SoundCloud is a great resource for music that can be used in your institutional productions, and now finding music which you can use for free has become a lot easier.
Read blog entry...A musical minefield
Anyone who has ever delved into copyright law and music (and came out the other side the same person) will know that simplicity and common sense certainly don't have a place in this murky area.
Read blog entry...How to make a vinyl record
Vinyl records. Remember them?
Read blog entry...A word in your ear - new headphone guide
We have just published a new Headphone Guide.
Read blog entry...Where to find video, images or sounds?
Our latest advice documents look at the most useful sites for finding digital media resources online.
Read blog entry...You are listening to…
Our new advice document Creating an Audio Ident provides information on what an ident is, desiging an ident, and how-to create an ident using Audacity software.
Read blog entry...Vinyl up close
For anyone who's ever wondered what the grooves on a vinly recording really look like, here's your answer.
Read blog entry...*NEW* Acoustic Treatment advice document
An overview of acoustic treatment methods and materials, and advice on identifying and meeting the acoustic needs of your room.
Read blog entry...Connect audio in car
My mother wanted to show off her new car (little red base model) to me this weekend, and the best feature of which is the connection/jack/hole to play music and/or podcasts from your mp3 player.
Read blog entry...Choosing an Audio Interface - The Trilogy
Three new advice documents designed to assist you in choosing an audio interface for your computer system.
Read blog entry...pd Bootcamp
Last week I attended the excellent Pure Data Bootcamp at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Read blog entry...British Library world and traditional music archive is now free online!
The British Library has just placed its entire world and traditional music sound archive online for free access.
Read blog entry...DIY Internet radio station
S3FM is a simple facility that lets anyone create their own Web-based radio station.
Read blog entry...That sounds cheap
We are often being asked about where to find copyright-free sound resources online for use in teaching and learning, especially for creating new media.
Read blog entry...Sounds of the Brum-derground
The Birmingham Music Archive (BMA) is a cracking new project spearheaded by Jez Collins as a collaboration between Birmingham Central Library and Birmingham City University.
Read blog entry...Musical contour search engine
The wonderful music site Musipedia has a music search facility which gives you a number of different ways of specifying the melody you want to identify.
Read blog entry...Free moving image resources!
The Prelinger Archive is a collection of 'ephemeral' films: things like ads, educational films, industrial films, things that don't usually get collected in archives.
Read blog entry...Analogue isn’t dead yet…
The Tape Project is releaseing a series of recordings on 1/4 inch, reel-to-reel, 15 ips, half track, analogue tape.
Read blog entry...Designing Sound - a new audio reference text
Designing Sound gives us a new reference text on the physical and psychological nature of sound itself, and the modelling of audio environments, instruments and effects for the entertainment industry, music and research. It also includes tutorials and guidance on almost every aspect of the open-source sound design software Puredata, on which its author, Andy Farnell is a recognised authority.
Read blog entry...Spotify - The future of online music?
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