week 5: chapter 4 (sound) part 2 (half covered) + Practical work

A MIDI file is a list of time-stamped commands that are recordings of musical actions (the pressing down of a piano key or a sustain pedal, for example, or the movement of a control wheel or slider). When sent to a MIDI playback device, this results in sound. A concise MIDI message can cause a complex sound or sequence of sounds to play on an instrument or synthesizer; so MIDI files tend to be significantly smaller (per second of sound delivered to the user) than equivalent digitized waveform files. Composing your own original score can be one of the most creative and rewarding aspects of building a multimedia project, and MIDI is the quickest, easiest, and most flexible tool for this task. Yet creating an original MIDI score is hard work. Knowing something about music, being able to play a keyboard, and having a lot of good ideas are just the prerequisites to building a good score; beyond that, it takes time and musical skill to work with MIDI. 

Practical work:audacity software practice, voice recording through audacity, applying effects on sound e.g, reverb, fade in fade out, etc, In photoshop packing designing start with grids and shape filling.

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