WAV

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: Praat

Purpose:

A software application that may be used to analyse, synthesise, and manipulate speech in phonetics, and create visual representations of the audio recording.

Features:

• Speech analysis
• Speech synthesis
• Configurability
• Programmability
• Integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music” project has used Praat for phonetic analysis and sound manipulation of audio recordings.

Creator:

Paul Boersma and David Weenink

Publisher:

Institute of Phonetic Sciences - University of Amsterdam

Data analysis:

Sound analysis

Data structuring and enhancement:

Sound editing