Below is the outline for the presentations I did on Peak. Also, I have placed one microphone in studios C & D for you all to use for project 4.1. Go ahead and sign up for studio time and begin your sessions.
Working in Peak – Organizing your sounds & playing with them
I. Peak basics
Where is everything?
- Tools & buttons
- Audio set-up
- Getting around in your sound file
- Zoom in/out
- Fade in/out
- Recording into Peak
II. Making Regions and the first step in organizing your sounds
- How to make regions
- Exporting regions
- Creating stereo/mono files
- Copy/paste
III. DSP and playing with your sounds
- Changing the amplitude
- Normalize RMS
- Working with and creating amplitude envelopes
- change gain
- Fade in/out
2. Changing pitch and duration
- change pitch
- change duration
3. Reversing a sound
4. Inserting silence and cutting your sounds up
5. repairing clicks
- drawing the waveform
- repair clicks function
- caps-lock
6. Mix and add functions
IV. More advanced sound modifications
- Convolution
- Phase Vocoding
V. Plugins (filters and effects)