Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify and describe formats of digital audio
- Distinguishing features and uses of analogue and digital audio are determined
- Terms describing audio characteristics are used correctly
- Contemporary digital audio formats and their application in achieving defined outcomes are identified
- Data rates for major digital sources and their relevance to defined outcomes are determined
- Appropriate methods for saving and producing digital audio outputs are determined for range of sources and destinations
- Sampling techniques and sources for digital audio appropriate to defined outcomes are determined
- Uses of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) technology are determined
- Use digital audio software
- Edit digital audio
- Single and multiple audio tracks are edited to achieve defined outcome
- Multiple tracks of digital audio are joined according to job specifications
- Digital effects are employed to modify and integrate digital audio tracks according to job specifications
- Time encoding is applied to single and multiple edited digital audio tracks according to job specifications
- Audio track is inserted into multimedia production sequence according to job specifications
- Construct digital audio track
- Techniques for hooking sounds are identified
- Defects on sound recordings are eliminated and/or treated
- Special effects and mixing techniques are used on audio track according to job specifications
- Sequencers are used to create digital audio tracks according to job specifications
- MIDI and sound cards are used to create digital audio according to job specifications
- Audio track is produced using appropriate track construction software and hardware
- Audio tracks are saved in appropriate file formats