sound and music

sound storage devices: CD, DVD, Flash Memory, Hard drive, Smart phone

Sound cards: needed as an interface for microphone/speakers, prosses sounds produced by input devices such as microphones and MIDI interfaces, used with keyboards,, guitars, and drums to produce a digial sound

speakers

sound convertion: analogue to digital ( instruments produce analogue sounds which need to be converted into a digital sound for the computer tbe able to process it), digital to analogue (digital sounds produced by the computer need to be converted into analogue sounds)

Samplars: an electronic or digital musical instrument similar to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings or"samples" of real instruments e.g piano, trumpet, violin, exerptsfrom recorded songs e.g a 5 second bass guitar riff from a funk song, or other sounds e.g sirens, ocean waves.

sequencers: sound synthesisers capable of producing sequencing

notators: music composition software e.g sibelius

soundwave editors: used to change th esound we hearand can be downloaded of the internet

downloading music:  used for file sharing and now for deceidingthe top 40 chart downloads each week, its important to conciderthe copy right restrictions.

differnt formats: WAV, WMA, MP3, need to be concidered for copatability