Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals

by Wallace Jackson

This concise book
builds upon the foundational concepts of MIDI, synthesis, and sampled
waveforms. It also covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization
work process, streaming versus captive digital audio new media assets, digital
audio programming and publishing platforms, and why data footprint optimization
is important for modern day new media content development and distribution.

Digital Audio Editing
Fundamentals
is a new media mini-book covering concepts central to digital audio editing
using the Audacity open source software package which also apply to all of the
professional audio editing packages. The book gets more advanced as chapters
progress, and covers key concepts for new media producers such as how to
maximize audio quality and which digital audio new media formats are best for
use with Kindle, Android Studio, Java, JavaFX, iOS, Blackberry, Tizen, Firefox
OS, Chrome OS, Opera OS, Ubuntu Touch and HTML5.

You will


Industry
terminology involved in digital audio editing, synthesis, sampling,
analysis and processing
The work process
which comprises a fundamental digital audio editing, analysis, and effects
pipeline
The foundational
audio waveform sampling concepts that are behind modern digital audio
publishing
How to install,
and utilize, the professional, open source Audacity digital audio editing
software
Concepts behind digital
audio sample resolution and sampling frequency and how to select settings
How to select
the best digital audio data codec and format for your digital audio
content application
How to go about
data footprint optimization, to ascertain which audio formats give the
best results
Using digital
audio assets in computer programming languages and content publishing
platforms

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 16, 2015

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most part of this book is basically Audacity How To. Very clearly explained.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

An intro to Audacity.