CG087 Time-based Multimedia Assets

Resources

	DOP manual doproman.pdf ( 2096394 Bytes ) Here is the manual for Voyetra Digital Orchestrator
	Foley Art This web site gives a nice overview of the history and practice of Foley art (film sound to you and me). Well worth having a good look at. http://www.marblehead.net/foley/
	The Design Mind and Designed Music Essential Reading Eric Somers (a friend of mine) runs the Sandbook studio which creates sound compositions, web pages, and multimedia productions. On his web site (www.sandbook.com) you will find some very interesting writings on the link between sound and vision in art and design. Especially interesting are Prof Somers' ideas on how one medium inform another The Sandbook Studio is currently exploring the use of sound to aid design students in developing their ability to solve visual design problems.
	Pychoacoustics & the grammar of audio Steve Donofrio has put together a useful little glossary of terms encountered in the study of sound, music, and psychoacoustics. You can download "Pychoacoustics & the grammar of audio" as a PDF file at http://www.natf.org/documents/psycoa.pdf.
	Auditory display Program auralisation Paul Vickers' web site has details of a project to investigate musical program auralisation. See www.auralisation.org Earcons Prof. Stephen Brewster's site at Glasgow University is a mine of earcon-related information. Sonification of the Pacific Ocean Bob Sturm, the ComposerScientist has done some very interesting work on sonification. He has a CD out of music generated by sonifying the data from buoys in the Pacific Ocean ICAD The International Community for Auditory Display is a good repository of work in and contacts for much of today's auditory display research.
	Sound loops &c Sites for getting free sound files: www.flashkit.com/soundfx offers loads of sound files with Flash previews. www.findsounds.com is a useful search tool for, guess what, finding sounds. Conquer Sound Loops offers a few nicely edited guitar loops. Flash Thief has some low-fidelity loops designed for Flash presentations which are useful nonetheless. Sample Arena has loads of downloadable snippets. Sounds from the movies PocketFuel.com has yet more loops. SimplyTheBest.net a good repository of WAV, MP3, and MIDI files
	Converting MIDI to audio in DOP DOP.txt ( 1159 Bytes ) You may experience difficulty in recording your MIDI as audio in DOP. The attached document explains how to change the machine settings so that you can successfully record your MIDI data onto a pair of stereo tracks.
	DOP video tutorials Dop3_1s.avi ( 5877692 Bytes ) Dop3_2s.avi ( 4419414 Bytes ) Dop3_3s.avi ( 5754322 Bytes ) Dop3_4s.avi ( 4676886 Bytes ) Dop3_5s.avi ( 5421856 Bytes ) dopro_vid.exe ( 2240144 Bytes ) Here are five video tutorials that should help you get into working with Digital Orchestrator Pro. Alternatively, you can download them as self-extracting archives from http://www.voyetra.com/site/kb_ftp/160ftp.asp Also available is dopro_vid.exe which is a larger format video but which uses its own media player (I think).
	Cubasis guide Cubasis.pdf ( 6586398 Bytes )