Week 4 Summary

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General Notes for Week 4

• This week in all classes we need to go over how to back up to the server. Need to start the EM history topics in both 51 classes and assign first quiz. Quiz on FM for Music 8? Intro needs to learn how to create a MASTER VOLUME FADER and CONTROL TRACK and how to automate track volume and panning.

• Also - did not explain the "Logic Basics" instrument business in the Friday class (or the MW class) last week. Need to go over that and incorporate it into assignment 3.
  

Was scheduled to hear most recent project (#2), but put this off until start of next class. (DID NOT YET go over setting up the master volume fader via Output 1-2.) Went over basic track automation of volume and pan, reviewed the better method of adding multiple tracks with the same "inst." - also did the very basic introduction using the Logic Basics instruments.(NEED TO: Started EM History by doing precursor including the Singing Arc and the Teleharmonium. Stopped before doing the Theremin.)

Weather-related power failure - class canceled. We are now one day behind original schedule in Music 8.

Heard some remaining project #3 examples today, with a few to hear on Thursday - but there are perhaps four to hear at start of period on THURSDAY. (There may be others that did not get recorded - if so, be sure to ask them about it later.)

Work time on project 3. Project 3 is due at end of period today - but only a very few were ready due to our compressed schedule. Those who did not play today must play back at the END (?) of the next class period.  Save for next time: introduction of EM history topic. (OLD: Reviewed need for synchronization with click track and how to record to ensure that this happens.)

Hear project #3 (Subtractor) near end of period. Work time on this project at start of period. Introduce effects modules in Reason - brief intro.

HEARD ABOUT FOUR #3 PROJECTS AT START OF PERIOD.  Work session on assignment 4 - adding effects to sound modules and the mixer. Began period by reviewing the two ways to incorporate effects (serial and parallel). Gave an overview of the effects modules in Reason (at previous session). Assignment 4 due next class. (Then on to samplers?)

Explained how to control/edit velocity of individual tracks that share the same inst. (DID NOT DO: Finish the first EM History topic by covering Theremin - the assigned/explained the first take-home quiz that is due next Friday at start of period.) Did a VERY basic introduction to Logic effects/inserts - showing how to add them, how to bypass them, how to add more than one, and very briefly demoed a couple of reverbs - did not cover any particular effects in detail. Test 1 tentatively scheduled for two weeks from today - the same day that quiz 2 is due - on May 15. This entails doing the second history topic next week. (This may need to be delayed...)

DID cover how to backup folders to the server.

• This week in all classes we need to go over how to back up to the server. Need to start the EM history topics in both 51 classes and assign first quiz. Quiz on FM for Music 8? Intro needs to learn how to create a MASTER VOLUME FADER and CONTROL TRACK and how to automate track volume and panning.

• Also - did not explain the "Logic Basics" instrument business in the Friday class (or the MW class) last week. Need to go over that and incorporate it into assignment 3.
  

Heard most recent project (#2). Re-reviewed (!) setting up the master volume fader via Output 1-2. Reminded: project length and grades, pan/volume, how to use speakers.. (Today it was important to get #2 done, hear it, and start working on #3 - since we're behind the Friday class.). Started EM History by doing precursor including the Singing Arc and the Teleharmonium. Stopped before doing the Theremin.

Heard some remaining project #3 examples today, with a few to hear on Thursday - but there are perhaps four to hear at start of period on THURSDAY. (There may be others that did not get recorded - if so, be sure to ask them about it later.)

CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO MY ABSENCE - ANNOUNCE SCHEDULE CHANGES NEXT WEEK. Work time on project 3. Project 3 is due at end of period today - but only a very few were ready due to our compressed schedule. Those who did not play today must play back at the start of the next class period.  Save for next time: introduction of EM history topic. (OLD: Reviewed need for synchronization with click track and how to record to ensure that this happens.)

HEARD ABOUT FOUR #3 PROJECTS AT START OF PERIOD.  Work session on assignment 4 - adding effects to sound modules and the mixer. Began period by reviewing the two ways to incorporate effects (serial and parallel). Gave an overview of the effects modules in Reason (at previous session). Assignment 4 due next class. (Then on to samplers?)

Explained how to control/edit velocity of individual tracks that share the same inst. Finish the first EM History topic by covering Theremin - the assigned/explained the first take-home quiz that is due next Friday at start of period. Did a VERY basic introduction to Logic effects/inserts - showing how to add them, how to bypass them, how to add more than one, and very briefly demoed a couple of reverbs - did not cover any particular effects in detail. Test 1 tentatively scheduled for two weeks from today - the same day that quiz 2 is due - on May 15. This entails doing the second history topic next week.

NOTE: Some did not play the assignment that was due this week at the end of the period. I announced that they could play it at the START of the 5/8 class. Also, while some can play the next assignment (#4) at the end of the 5/8 class, I will also be willing to hear it at the start of the 5/15 class.

Heard most recent project (#2). Introduced basic automation of volume and panning in the Arrange window. Showed but did not explain at all the effects of automation on the mixer. Talked about but did not do - the automation of parameters on individual instruments. (Today it was important to get #2 done, hear it, and start working on #3 - since we're behind the Friday class.) need to do history #1 on Wednesday.

Hear remaining project #3 until start of period today. Explained/demoed the inclusion of signal processors ("effects") both in series and in parallel (at the mixer). Still need to go briefly over some of the effects modules besides the basic reverb and delay to explain what they do - a quick overview. Heard project 3 near the end of the period. Also did a very brief and quick demo on automation in Reason and announced the next assignment and due date of next class, end of period.

Work time on project 3. Project 3 is due at end of period today - but only a very few were ready due to our compressed schedule. Those who did not play today must play back at the start of the next class period.  Save for next time: introduction of EM history topic. (OLD: Reviewed need for synchronization with click track and how to record to ensure that this happens.)

Work session on assignment 4 - adding effects to sound modules and the mixer. Began period by reviewing the two ways to incorporate effects (serial and parallel). Gave an overview of the effects modules in Reason (at previous session). Assignment 4 due next class. (Then on to samplers?)

Heard essentially all project 2. Heard only a handful of assignment 3 - all others are due at very start of class next week. Went over continuous controllers in logic arrange window fairly thoroughly. Covered the EM history through Theremin. EM history quiz 1 due at start of class next week.  Did NOT start topics for assignment 4 - must do next time. Need to do next EM history section at next class, followed by quiz and announcement of test 1 date.