CC1 - Week 1 - Basic Overview

In our first lesson of CC, we did what we did in every first lesson, we went through a basic outline/aim of the course. Unlike most of the other initial lessons though, we actually got through some material, which was talking about DME systems (Desktop Music Environment). We talked about the two levels of a DME, the software level, and the hardware level (the hardware level is controlled by the software level).

We also discussed the operating system used on the computers here, which is OSX 10.4, or Tiger. We were shown how to access the AMS (Audio MIDI Setup), and in general how you would go about creating a MIDI system.

We also ran through some basic terms like the buffer, and how it is possible to change it to solve various audio problems.

This week we were meant to do our blog on a group task of creating a MIDI network, but as the computers were down, this task was not really feasible, so I will simply leave this blog at having said what we went through in the lesson.

Peace out.