1. What is computer music? 2. When did computer music appear? 3. What are the latest developments in the field of computer music? 4. What can a current-generation of microcomputers do? 5. What can computer music systems and approaches do? 6. What is a music-generated music? 7. What are two groups of computer-generated music? 8. What is an audio file format? 9. What are the most popular audio file formats? 10. What hardware do you need to record a melody? 11. What do serious home musicians and podcasters do? 12. What interfaces can help you in recording? 13. What can programs built into Windows 7* and XP* record? 14. What is a role of a slider in recording of music? 15. Is it easy to record music to only one track? 16. What should you do if you want to record music to more than one track? 17. What is mutitracking? 18. Why is it necessary to think about the format of your recording? 19. What are the requirements of people in downloading or recording music? 20. What is SoundCloud?
Exercise 6. Translate from Russian into English
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Exercise 7. Match words.
| audio book | MIDI ( ) |
| audio lecture | iPod, |
| audioblog | |
| built-in flash memory | MP3 |
| CD ripping | |
| DAW (digital audio workstation) | MP3 (MPEG 3) |
| fileshare site | , |
| flash memory | ID3 |
| hard drive | |
| ID3 editor | |
| ID3 tags | - |
| Internet radio | |
| iPod | ID3 |
| MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) | ; ; ; |
| MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) | Internet |
| MP3 player | |
| plug-in | |
| podcast | |
| podcasting | , - (-) MP3 () () |
| rip | , , , |
| speech recognition | - |
| speech synthesis | - |
| spoken tutorial | - |
| streaming | |
| text-to-speech | |
| webcast |
