CMUS 336 Advanced Digital Audio Workstation Skills

Building on the foundation in CMUS 335, this course develops advanced skills in using a digital audio workstation for music production.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

Course Guide

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Those who pursue music as a career often need skills in digital audio editing for music production. This is particularly true for anyone training in commercial music. This course will prepare the student to understand the techniques and technology used in professional audio editing contexts.


Textbook readings, videos, articles and lecture presentations

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After reading the Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must be 250–300 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 150 or more words. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least one scholarly citation in current Turabian format. Each reply must incorporate at least one scholarly citation in current Turabian format.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of settings, preferences, troubleshooting, import/export of session data, track management, and templates in a digital audio workstation.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of tempo mapping, inserting/removing time, single/multi-track editing, flying, shuffle editing, and clip-based level control in a digital audio workstation.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of approaches for comping, pitch correction, and time adjustment in a digital audio workstation.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of transient detection and time alignment techniques in a digital audio workstation.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of transient-based sound triggering and audio to MIDI event export in a digital audio workstation.

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The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of restorative editing techniques in a digital audio workstation.

The student will demonstrate his/her understanding of procedures for the integration of video into a digital audio workstation session.

Each quiz/exam will cover the Learn material for the assigned Module: Week. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain 5-10 multiple-choice, true/false, and multiple-answer questions, and have a 1-hour time limit. Each quiz may be attempted twice.

The Quiz: Final will cover the Learn material for the entire course. It will be open-book/open-notes, contain 29 multiple-choice, true/false, and multiple-answer questions, and have a 2-hour time limit.


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