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Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment

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Learning all of these teaching tools that have been created to make my job as a music educator simpler has been an excellent experience. This week after working with the Soundation website and making my very own composition has excited my love for music teaching all over again. Using the midi files and the wav files and finally being able to tell the difference between the two has giving me new ideas on ways I can teach my general music classes that I have in the fall and still enjoy teaching them.

Digital and Analog recording which both were foreign to me, I now have a better understanding of them both now. To help me understand them I use this saying “digital data" which means that a digital recording deals with data and "analog acoustic" and analog deals with recording acoustic recording into an electric sound. The more data on a digital recording the more data you have about the actual sound that was recorded. The digital recordings you can change whatever you want about them because they are dealing with data. Then the acoustic recording seems as if you are transferring the acoustic sound to an electric sound. The understanding that I have of an analog recording is it is the exact replica of what was previously recorded. There is not much you can do to change it. …show more content…

“In lossless compression, an exact reproduction of the original sound source can be crated; all original sound can be recovered”.(Bauer, 2014). So most people would use a WAV or AIFF file to record and compress sound. This makes music recording simpler because most people myself included, want to capture all of the sound that I am recording just in case I want to change something about the original recording that I did not like. With the lossy file large amounts of data is not is lost and unable to be recovered. If you are a live recording of an event you might consider using a WAV file to ensure that all information is

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