This introductory workshop explores the technology and techniques associated with the production of high quality audio using desktop computer systems similar to those found in homes, offices and computer music studios. In the Center for Audio Recording Arts there are four DAWs - Digital Audio Workstations which facilitate working with sound in the following ways:

• Audio recording, editing and playback at varying levels of signal quality for:

1. compact disc production and broadcast applications
2. high definition audio techniques - beyond current compact disc standards
3. mid-level audio quality for usage on the Internet and in CDROMs
4. low-quality audio for industrial usage and for real-time digital transmission

• Audio manipulation and transformation using a wide variety of techniques such as:

1. the addition of reverberation, echo and related time-domain effects
2. equalization and filtering
3. audio post-production techniques such as compression, limiting and gating
4. special techniques such as direct sound synthesis and digital signal processing

• Combining sound with images and text to create CDROMs and multimedia presentations:

1. various types of CDROMS - audio, data only, interactive, extended, DVD and so on
2. Internet multimedia presentations
3. Localized multimedia presentations and installations

• Archiving and publication through the creation of CDROMs:

1. CD premastering and PQ code authoring
2. CD burning
3. CD analysis and testing

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