http://musictech.uncg.edu Brian Thacker's technology pages at UNCG... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:59:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you for visiting MusicTech@UNCG, the website of the Instructional Technology Consultant in the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This site was designed first as a tool to communicate updates on the status of technology at UNCG to the faculty in the School of ... http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/05/07/welcome-to-musictechuncg/ SmartMusic, Impact, and Finale - Presentation http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/08/18/beaufort-county-school-district-summer-institute/ I've been asked for this several times, so I've created a quasi-template from my own dissertation for the proper formatting of the these content areas in the dissertation. It's called a quasi-template because it is not a true "template" in the Word sense, but is ready for the user to ... http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/07/09/template-for-dissertation-title-toc-acknowledgments/ Several times I have been asked to recommend an audio software package for Windows that is similar in scope and simplicity as GarageBand on the  Mac. I've read about Mixcraft before and suggest that people look into it, but this week I am going to download the demo and do ... http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/07/06/mixcraft-4-affordable-multi-track-audio-and-midi-recording-software/ Brief article excerpted from a PDF book about GarageBand. Contains information about combining two GarageBand projects into one, something I have been trying to figure out with a few of my own ideas. Macworld | Learn GarageBand tips and tricks http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/07/05/macworld-learn-garageband-tips-and-tricks/ SmartMusic, Impact, and Finale clinics for the Beaufort County, South Carolina school system. http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/06/24/beaufort-county-schools-summer-institute-2008/ A historical event in electronic music has been rediscovered. The recordings of this early computer generated music sound very similar the double-reed instrument sounds found much later in the 1980s with the introduction of FM synthesis. BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Oldest' computer music unveiled http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/06/18/bbc-news-technology-oldest-computer-music-unveiled/ Similar to their course on orchestration using the Rimsky-Korsakov treatise, Garritan is now offering a free online jazz arranging course. Jazz Arranging Online http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/05/18/garritan-offers-free-online-interactive-jazz-arranging-course/ There is an interesting article in the June issue of Computer Music magazine about the perception of loudness in music as being a better performance to the human ear. It briefly discusses the tiny organ called the sacculus that has been linked to the response centers for pleasure in the brain. The ... http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/05/13/why-loud-music-is-perceived-to-be-better/ A free virtual printer for Windows XP/Vista that creates PDF documents from any application that supports printing. Great application for creating your own PDFs from Word or PowerPoint documents. Download from the official website or look for a link in the "Download" section of this website. http://musictech.uncg.edu/2008/05/07/dopdf-free-pdf-converter/