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Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Wallace Jackson

    1. Lompoc, USA

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  • A unique focused short or mini-book on audio content production and its optimization

  • Improves your knowledge of multi-platform digital audio editing

  • Utilizes free open source software packages

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Foundation of Digital Audio: The Sound Wave

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    Pages 1-9

  3. The History of Digital Audio: MIDI and Synthesis

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 11-17

  4. The Reproduction of Digital Audio: Data Sampling

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 19-25

  5. The Transmission of Digital Audio: Data Formats

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    Pages 27-32

  6. The Cleanup of Digital Audio: Noise Removal

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    Pages 33-38

  7. The Isolation of Digital Audio: Trimming Tools

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    Pages 39-45

  8. The Manual Labor of Digital Audio: Sample Editing

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 47-53

  9. The Algorithms of Digital Audio: Audio Processing

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    Pages 55-64

  10. A Visualization of Digital Audio: Spectral Analysis

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    Pages 65-75

  11. The Compositing of Digital Audio: Using Tracks

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 77-91

  12. The Synthesis of Digital Audio: Tone Generation

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 93-105

  13. The Data Footprint of Digital Audio: Compression

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 107-117

  14. The Interactivity of Digital Audio: Programming

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    Pages 119-130

  15. Publishing Digital Audio: Content Delivery Platforms

    • Wallace Jackson
    Pages 131-138

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 139-142
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About this book

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 learn:

  • 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

    • Reviews

    “Hands-on tutorials to popular free software are fairly common. What distinguishes this short (142 page) book is its coherent and concise explanation of foundational concepts. … The index is decent. For the newbie, this brief introduction will be useful.” (David Bellin, Computing Reviews, April, 2016)

    Authors and Affiliations

    • Lompoc, USA

      Wallace Jackson

    About the author

    Wallace Jackson, Apress Author of a dozen new media content and programming titles.  He specializes in integrating and optimizing media as well as Android and Java programming/development.

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