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The document is a glossary of terms related to sound design and production for computer games. It contains definitions for over 20 key terms with URLs linking to where the definitions were obtained. For each term, the student also provides a short explanation of how the term relates to their own production practice, such as using sound libraries to add pre-made sounds to their work in GTA. Common file formats, limitations of audio hardware, recording systems, MIDI, sampling, and other core concepts are defined and linked to the student's projects.

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Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 1 Produce a glossary of terms specific to the methods and principles of sound design and production. Using a provided template, you must research and gather definitions specific to provided glossary terms. Any definitions must be referenced with the URL link of the website you have obtained the definition. You must also, where possible, provide specific details of how researched definitions relate to your own production practice. Name: Joseph kenyon RESEARCHED DEFINITION (provide short internet researched definition and URL link) DESCRIBE THE RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCHED TERM TO YOUR OWN PRODUCTION PRACTICE? SOUND DESIGN METHODOLOGY Foley Artistry “A Foley Artist 'recreates' sound effects for film, television and radio productions on a Foley Stage in a Post Production Studio.” http://www.marblehead.net/foley/whatisitman.html The guy who makes real sounds out of everyday objects. Sound Libraries A sample library is a collection of digital sound recordings, known as samples, for use by composers, arrangers, performers, and producers of music. The sound files are loaded into a sampler - either hardware or computer-based - which is then used to create music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_library When making my GTA sequin’s I used sound libraries so that I could dragged drop my work on to Rapier SOUND FILE FORMATS Uncompressed Uncompressed audio files are the most accurate digital representation of a soundwave, but can also be the most resource-intensive method of recording and storing digital audio, both in terms of storage and management. Their accuracy makes them suitable for archiving and delivering audio at high resolution, and working with audio at a professional level, and they are the 'master' audio format of choice. http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/uncompressed-audio-file- formats This is good for making good high quality sounds and make it seem it is at professional standard .wav The format for storing sound in files developed jointly by Microsoftand IBM. Support for WAV files was built into Windows 95 making it the de facto standard for sound .wav is useful because it allows your sounds to run on most platforms.
Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 2 on PCs. WAV sound files end with a.wav extension and can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WAV.html .aiff AIFF is short for Audio Interchange File Format, which is an audio format initially created by Apple Computer for storing and transmitting high-quality sampled audio data. It supports a variety of bit resolutions, sample rates, and channels of audio. This format is quite popular upon Apple platforms, and is commonly adopted in professional programs that handle digital audio waveforms. http://www.abyssmedia.com/formats/aiff-format.shtml .au AU is a file extension for a sound file format belonging to Sun, NeXT and DEC and used in UNIX. The AU file format is also known as the Sparc-audio or u-law fomat. http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/AU-Sun-NeXT-DEC-UNIX- sound-file .smp (1) Short for Symmetric Multiprocessing, a computer architecture that provides fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously (multiprocessing). Unlike asymmetrical processing, any idle processor can be assigned any task, and additional CPUs can be added to improve performance and handle increased loads. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SMP.html Lossy Compression Refers to data compression techniques in which some amount of data is lost. Lossy compression technologies attempt to eliminate redundant or unnecessary information. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/lossy_compression.html .mp3 The name of the file extension and also the name of the type of file for MPEG, audio layer 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3) for the compression of audio signals. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MP3.html .mp3 is the most common and is used on almost everything. AUDIO LIMITATIONS Sound Processor Unit (SPU) A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card You will usually need this so that you can listen to sounds on your computer without it you cant Digital Sound Processor (DSP) Digital signal processing (DSP) is the mathematical manipulation of an information signal to modify or improve it in some way. It is characterized by the representation of discrete time, discrete frequency, or other discrete domain signals by a sequence of This was used I think it was normalising my sound to make them sound louder and better than what they did
Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 3 numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing Random Access Memory (RAM) RAM (pronounced ramm) is an acronym for random access memory, a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly; that is, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computers and other devices, such as printers. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAM.html Mono Audio (1) Also referred to as the Mono Project, a development initiative sponsored by Ximian to create an open source Unix version of Microsoft��s .NET development platform. Mono focuses just on the development platform (a runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure, a compiler for C# and a set of class libraries) and not the end user applications that the term .NET also refers to. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Mono.html Stereo Audio A technique for giving more depth to traditional stereo sound. Typically, 3-D sound, or 3-D audio, is produced by placing a device in a room with stereo speakers. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/3/3_D_audio.html This is normally two speakers unlike surround sound that has many around your room Surround Sound Surround sound is a term used to describe a type of audio output in which the sound appears to "surround the listener" by 360 degrees. Surround sound systems use three or more channels and speakers in front and behind the listener to create a surrounding envelope of sound and directional audio sources. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/surround_sound.html Surround sound is used to make something more atmospheric I used something like this but it was just you left and right ear. Direct Audio (Pulse Code Modulation – PCM) Short for pulse code modulation, a sampling technique for digitizing analog signals, especially audio signals. PCM samples the signal 8000 times a second; each sample is represented by 8 bits for a total of 64 Kbps. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pulse_code_modulation.html AUDIO RECORDING SYSTEMS Analogue A device or system that represents changing values as continuously variable physical quantities. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/analog.html Digital Mini Disc A type of optical disk technology similar to the CD-ROM. A DVD holds a minimum of 4.7GBof data, enough for a full-length movie. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DVD.html Compact Disc (CD) Pronounced see-dee-rom. Short for Compact Disc-Read- Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storinglarge CD’s are used to store lots of things including sounds. Also useful because all
Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 4 amounts of data -- up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes). A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 text pages. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CD_ROM.html computers use cd and they are easy to use and put things on. Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Acronym for digital audio tape, a type of magnetic tape that uses a scheme called helical scan to record data. A DAT cartridge is slightly larger than a credit card in width and height and contains a magnetic tape that can hold from 2 to 24 gigabytes of data. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DAT.html MIDI Pronounced middy, an acronym for musical instrument digital interface, a standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices, such as synthesizers and sound cards that emit music. At minimum, a MIDI representation of a sound includes values for the note's pitch, length, and volume. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MIDI.html MIDI is used to make up your own sounds I have used this to make most of my own sounds. Software Sequencers A key that moves the cursor (or insertion point) to the beginning of the next line, or returns control to whatever program is currently running. After a program requests information from you (by displaying a prompt), it will usually not respond to your input until you have pressed the Enter or Return key. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/Enter_key.html Software Plug-ins (n.) A hardware or software module that adds a specific feature or service to a larger system. The idea is that the new component simply plugs in to the existing system. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/plug_in.html I used this to make some of my recorded sounds sound nothing like what they did like making a pig sound like a monster MIDI Keyboard Instruments Pronounced middy, an acronym for musical instrument digital interface, a standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices, such as synthesizers and sound cards, that emit music. At minimum, a MIDI representation of a sound includes values for the note's pitch, length, and volume. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MIDI.html AUDIO SAMPLING File Size Constraints - Bit-depth Files are stored on the disk in what is called called clusters (a
Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 5 group of disk sectors). Size on disk refers to the amount of cluster allocation a file is taking up, compared to file size which is an actual byte count. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/size_on_disk.html File Size Constraints - Sample Rate In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. A common example is the conversion of a sound wave (a continuous signal) to a sequence of samples (a discrete-time signal). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)

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  • 1. Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 1 Produce a glossary of terms specific to the methods and principles of sound design and production. Using a provided template, you must research and gather definitions specific to provided glossary terms. Any definitions must be referenced with the URL link of the website you have obtained the definition. You must also, where possible, provide specific details of how researched definitions relate to your own production practice. Name: Joseph kenyon RESEARCHED DEFINITION (provide short internet researched definition and URL link) DESCRIBE THE RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCHED TERM TO YOUR OWN PRODUCTION PRACTICE? SOUND DESIGN METHODOLOGY Foley Artistry “A Foley Artist 'recreates' sound effects for film, television and radio productions on a Foley Stage in a Post Production Studio.” http://www.marblehead.net/foley/whatisitman.html The guy who makes real sounds out of everyday objects. Sound Libraries A sample library is a collection of digital sound recordings, known as samples, for use by composers, arrangers, performers, and producers of music. The sound files are loaded into a sampler - either hardware or computer-based - which is then used to create music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_library When making my GTA sequin’s I used sound libraries so that I could dragged drop my work on to Rapier SOUND FILE FORMATS Uncompressed Uncompressed audio files are the most accurate digital representation of a soundwave, but can also be the most resource-intensive method of recording and storing digital audio, both in terms of storage and management. Their accuracy makes them suitable for archiving and delivering audio at high resolution, and working with audio at a professional level, and they are the 'master' audio format of choice. http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/uncompressed-audio-file- formats This is good for making good high quality sounds and make it seem it is at professional standard .wav The format for storing sound in files developed jointly by Microsoftand IBM. Support for WAV files was built into Windows 95 making it the de facto standard for sound .wav is useful because it allows your sounds to run on most platforms.
  • 2. Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 2 on PCs. WAV sound files end with a.wav extension and can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WAV.html .aiff AIFF is short for Audio Interchange File Format, which is an audio format initially created by Apple Computer for storing and transmitting high-quality sampled audio data. It supports a variety of bit resolutions, sample rates, and channels of audio. This format is quite popular upon Apple platforms, and is commonly adopted in professional programs that handle digital audio waveforms. http://www.abyssmedia.com/formats/aiff-format.shtml .au AU is a file extension for a sound file format belonging to Sun, NeXT and DEC and used in UNIX. The AU file format is also known as the Sparc-audio or u-law fomat. http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/AU-Sun-NeXT-DEC-UNIX- sound-file .smp (1) Short for Symmetric Multiprocessing, a computer architecture that provides fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously (multiprocessing). Unlike asymmetrical processing, any idle processor can be assigned any task, and additional CPUs can be added to improve performance and handle increased loads. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SMP.html Lossy Compression Refers to data compression techniques in which some amount of data is lost. Lossy compression technologies attempt to eliminate redundant or unnecessary information. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/lossy_compression.html .mp3 The name of the file extension and also the name of the type of file for MPEG, audio layer 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3) for the compression of audio signals. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MP3.html .mp3 is the most common and is used on almost everything. AUDIO LIMITATIONS Sound Processor Unit (SPU) A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card You will usually need this so that you can listen to sounds on your computer without it you cant Digital Sound Processor (DSP) Digital signal processing (DSP) is the mathematical manipulation of an information signal to modify or improve it in some way. It is characterized by the representation of discrete time, discrete frequency, or other discrete domain signals by a sequence of This was used I think it was normalising my sound to make them sound louder and better than what they did
  • 3. Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 3 numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing Random Access Memory (RAM) RAM (pronounced ramm) is an acronym for random access memory, a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly; that is, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computers and other devices, such as printers. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAM.html Mono Audio (1) Also referred to as the Mono Project, a development initiative sponsored by Ximian to create an open source Unix version of Microsoft��s .NET development platform. Mono focuses just on the development platform (a runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure, a compiler for C# and a set of class libraries) and not the end user applications that the term .NET also refers to. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Mono.html Stereo Audio A technique for giving more depth to traditional stereo sound. Typically, 3-D sound, or 3-D audio, is produced by placing a device in a room with stereo speakers. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/3/3_D_audio.html This is normally two speakers unlike surround sound that has many around your room Surround Sound Surround sound is a term used to describe a type of audio output in which the sound appears to "surround the listener" by 360 degrees. Surround sound systems use three or more channels and speakers in front and behind the listener to create a surrounding envelope of sound and directional audio sources. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/surround_sound.html Surround sound is used to make something more atmospheric I used something like this but it was just you left and right ear. Direct Audio (Pulse Code Modulation – PCM) Short for pulse code modulation, a sampling technique for digitizing analog signals, especially audio signals. PCM samples the signal 8000 times a second; each sample is represented by 8 bits for a total of 64 Kbps. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pulse_code_modulation.html AUDIO RECORDING SYSTEMS Analogue A device or system that represents changing values as continuously variable physical quantities. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/analog.html Digital Mini Disc A type of optical disk technology similar to the CD-ROM. A DVD holds a minimum of 4.7GBof data, enough for a full-length movie. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DVD.html Compact Disc (CD) Pronounced see-dee-rom. Short for Compact Disc-Read- Only Memory, a type of optical disk capable of storinglarge CD’s are used to store lots of things including sounds. Also useful because all
  • 4. Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 4 amounts of data -- up to 1GB, although the most common size is 650MB (megabytes). A single CD-ROM has the storage capacity of 700 floppy disks, enough memory to store about 300,000 text pages. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CD_ROM.html computers use cd and they are easy to use and put things on. Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Acronym for digital audio tape, a type of magnetic tape that uses a scheme called helical scan to record data. A DAT cartridge is slightly larger than a credit card in width and height and contains a magnetic tape that can hold from 2 to 24 gigabytes of data. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DAT.html MIDI Pronounced middy, an acronym for musical instrument digital interface, a standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices, such as synthesizers and sound cards that emit music. At minimum, a MIDI representation of a sound includes values for the note's pitch, length, and volume. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MIDI.html MIDI is used to make up your own sounds I have used this to make most of my own sounds. Software Sequencers A key that moves the cursor (or insertion point) to the beginning of the next line, or returns control to whatever program is currently running. After a program requests information from you (by displaying a prompt), it will usually not respond to your input until you have pressed the Enter or Return key. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/Enter_key.html Software Plug-ins (n.) A hardware or software module that adds a specific feature or service to a larger system. The idea is that the new component simply plugs in to the existing system. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/plug_in.html I used this to make some of my recorded sounds sound nothing like what they did like making a pig sound like a monster MIDI Keyboard Instruments Pronounced middy, an acronym for musical instrument digital interface, a standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices, such as synthesizers and sound cards, that emit music. At minimum, a MIDI representation of a sound includes values for the note's pitch, length, and volume. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MIDI.html AUDIO SAMPLING File Size Constraints - Bit-depth Files are stored on the disk in what is called called clusters (a
  • 5. Salford City College Eccles Sixth Form Centre BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games IG2 Task 1 5 group of disk sectors). Size on disk refers to the amount of cluster allocation a file is taking up, compared to file size which is an actual byte count. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/size_on_disk.html File Size Constraints - Sample Rate In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. A common example is the conversion of a sound wave (a continuous signal) to a sequence of samples (a discrete-time signal). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)