Sound and music

Sound and music

1. Microphones

   • Input devices and used to enter voice,sound and live music.

2. Speakers and headphones

   • Output devices and outputs music after processing by the computer.

3. Sound cards

   • Circuit boards containing chips and other components
     • High quality music/sound to be produced
       • Both recorded and outputted

4. MIDI

   • Musical instrument digital interface
     • Allows musical instruments to transfer music to a computer
       • Edited and stored
       • Can play back the stored music using the device used to create it.

5. Sequencers

   • Hardware or software used to manage music.
   • Music workstations can also provide sequencers.

6. Sound wave editors

   • Allow sound waves to be altered
     • You can alter,cut and paste and have effects such as: echo,amplification and noise reduction applied.

7. File formats

   • WAV- Wave
     • Highest quality of the formats. It will record perfectly, but file sizes will be large
   • MP3-MPEG layer 3
     • Most popular format- due to it's high compression rate without quality loss