How does Audio Masterclass think about audio? [includes video]
Here is an interesting question sent to us via our website's contact form...
"How does Audio Masterclass think about audio?"
There are so many ways we could answer this, but if we strip things right down to the essence this is how we think...
At Audio Masterclass our prime directive has always been to concentrate on the basics of audio. We believe that if you can get these right, then everything else will follow. Conversely, if you don't have a firm grasp of the basics, you will never achieve a professional standard of work.
We have a motto - 'Simple tasks done to professional standards'.
There's a saying that a video is worth a thousand words. So here is an example of how a complex topic such as additive synthesis can be explained clearly by going right back to first principles.
If you watch this through to the end (where there's a demonstration of sampling too) then you will understand how Audio Masterclass works and how we can help you improve the quality of your work further towards professional standards.
This method can be used in audio DAW that has a signal generator. Why not have a go yourself?
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David Mellor
David Mellor is CEO and Course Director of Audio Masterclass. David has designed courses in audio education and training since 1986 and is the publisher and principal writer of Adventures In Audio.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @andruzzo69: Pro Tools, but you can use any DAW if you have a signal generator plug-in. At the end I use Kontakt but you can use any sampler. DM
@aspro3911: When you add together sine waves with integer multiples of the base frequency, is it important that they all start from the zero phase at the same time? How does the resulting sound change if the phases of the sine waves are not synchronized?
@AudioMasterclass replies to @aspro3911: You would need a mathematician or an acoustic specialist for a reliable answer, but one consideration is that the ear is not particularly sensitive to phase, so it wouldn't sound much different. It should look different on an oscilloscope though. I would welcome expert commentary on this, but please from real experts. DM
@allenngn: This teacher sucks at video making. Or whoever his video editor is. Completely inefficient with his movements. Like you don't have to make us watch you put in all 10 fades, you can just speed that part of the video up or shorten it or cut it out completely & skip to the the part after all the tedious movements have been done. Making your video unnecessarily long is a good way to lose viewers' attention
@goremall: Great video! Although I don't understand why it's always explained by "harmonics" is simply an octave. Can one not just say octave? I'm not trying to be sarcastic I'm generally asking so I can understand better in my own development.
@AudioMasterclass replies to @goremall: The fundamental is the first harmonic. The second harmonic is an octave higher than the fundamental. Higher harmonics have smaller intervals in-between, so harmonics are not always at octave intervals. DM
@sucim: Great thing! Could listen for hours for topics like this. I can't believe how incredible our human ear is, that it can differentiate between so many variations of air-pressure time-series :D
@Dkcode: Wow
@awasthishivam: Extremely informative and cool!!
@woodlandcritterpunch: This video wasn't particularly helpful to me, not because it was bad, but because it just didn't go as in depth to the science/math of it as I was personally looking for. Which is why I wanna say thank you for summarizing the video in your description. It'd save me a lot of time if everyone did that.
@johnthething replies to @woodlandcritterpunch: watch?v=YsZKvLnf7wU this video helped me about science math part maybe it works for you too