Music Production week 2

I've decided that I'm not a fan of working Saturdays with a day off mid-week.

It probably wasn't helped that this last few days have been particularly busy for me, with going to an event in Newcastle after the Cub Scout meeting on Friday, followed by working Saturday then going to a party on Saturday night.

I have caught up with the Music Production videos early this week, and have completed the quizzes on a sensible day for a change. I just have to do the reviews for the week 1 assignment and prepare my assignment for week 2.

This weeks lectures have been about making edits using a DAW and how the midi controllers send messages. Although again there were lots of videos to watch, they were only a minute or so each and worked very well in the small bites. It gives time to have a try at the ideas and techniques using the software that you have on your own machine.

I am planning on leaving the assignment until Wednesday before starting, I seem to have a free evening and intend to make good use of it to so more preparation for the second assignment. Although I might also make good use of it by seeing Lynn for a couple of hours.

• Prepare a project in your DAW using the project checklist from the material as your guidelines.
• Record audio in your DAW including preparing the project, creating the track(s), setting the click and countoff, and recording efficiently.
• Perform the important editing tasks in your DAW including: trim, separate, crossfade, merge, grid, cycle, markers, zoom, name and color.
• Add a software instrument and record MIDI and quantize in your DAW. Including preparing the track(s), adding the instrument, setting the click and countoff, and recording efficiently.
• Efficiently create a compile from multiple audio recordings in your DAW.
• The Analog to Digital conversion process.
• Editing an imperfect audio performance to correct the timing.

I am looking at three DAW's at the moment, and will need to choose one to focus on. More decisions!