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Getting Started with Digital Audio

Here are a couple brief tutorials to help you get aquainted with some of the commonly used audio equpiment and software here at ITP.

Using the M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 Digital Audio Recorder:

Field recorder overview

Give that a read, and if you've got any questions, give Mike a shout: michael.dory@nyu.edu

Midi + ProTools - 10 simple steps to record from the Midi Controller

• Open ProTools
• Create 3 tracks - one midi track and 2 stereo Audio tracks.
• Set the inputs and the outputs to the following:
• Midi1: input: MK449CUSB (Midi Controller)

• Choose a Reason Sound Bank - We'll get back to this
• Audio1: input: Mic/Line 1-2

• Audio2: input: Bus 1-2

This should look like this:

• Now go to Operations -> Input Only Monitor
• Go to Windows -> Show Mix to bring up the input/output screen for every track. In Audio 1, click the top set of arrows to open the ->plug-ins. Select Multi-channel plug-in -> Instrument -> Reason. Rewire will open, and this will automatically launch Reason.
• In Reason, make a new File.
• Open up any sampler or synthesizer by going up to the "Create" Menu. For this example, we'll use NN19 digital sampler.
• Go to Browse Patch in the sampler, and choose a bank of your choice.

 See image:

• Go back to proTools. The outputs for the midi track should now have changed. Choose NN19 1-8.
• Now test it by playing some Mozart! You should be able to hear sound coming through. To record, record enable the track, and press the ->'record' and then the 'play' button.