Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)

tool: Pro Tools

Purpose:

Pro Tools is an audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for picture — all within one system.

Features:

• over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins
• over 8 GB of audio loops
• view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation
• Supports files up to 4 GB

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Activated Space: the transformation of internal spaces to become audible and interactive” project has used Pro tools to transfer Audio content and to encode Audio for 5.1 into Dolby Digital (AC3) at 640 kbps through SmartCode Pro.

Publisher:

Digidesign

Creator:

Digidesign

Data capture:

Sound generation

Sound recording

Music recognition

Specifications:

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)

Data analysis:

Discipline:

Software/programming languages used:

ProTools

Pro Tools

Data structuring and enhancement:

Sound compression

Sound editing

Sound encoding

Sound encoding - MIDI

Alternate tool(s):

Cubase, Reaper, Nuendo

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By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 17/06/2010 - 14:28

tool: Audacity

Purpose:

A software tool for capturing and manipulating audio recordings. Audacity may be used to import or record audio streams and subsequently edit aspects of its composition.

Features:

Manipulate audio recording through use of normalization, trimming, fade in/out and other effects.
Plug-in support for new formats and effects
Common user interface across operating systems through use of wxWidgets software library

A&H use case 1 description:

Siobhan Davies Dance Online used Audacity when capturing and editing audio recordings associated with the work of Siobhan Davies.

Publisher:

Dominic Mazzoni

Creator:

Dominic Mazzoni

Data capture:

Sound recording

Specifications:

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)

MS WAV

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)