The History of Digital Audio: MIDI and Synthesis

Now that you’ve learned about the fundamental sound wave and installed a powerful open source digital audio editing software package, it’s time to take a look at the history of digital audio and some of the ways that analog audio bridged over to digital audio using technologies like MIDI, synthesizers, and samplers. These impressive products and technologies are widely used today. They coalesce to create digital audio workstations, or DAWs, which provide a powerful fusion of sound design, audio editing, and music composition capabilities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.