L. Austin Weeks Computer Lab
The
L. Austin Weeks computer lab consists of eight Pentium computers and one
Macintosh. The lab has a variety of software packages installed, allowing
the students to work on various projects involving the analysis and editing
of sound and music files, creating web pages, designing loudspeakers and
even digital video editing and sound effect creation.
Some
of the computers are additionally set up to interface with digital signal
processing (DSP) evaluation boards and codecs so that students can write
DSP programs and then audition the results on live audio signals. All
of the computers are equipped with Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge and other
audio programs. Several of the computers are connected to the internet
and the school intranet. This lab also serves as headquarters for the
Weeks studio staff.
The Weeks Lab has two midi stations that consist of
a Korg Triton Music
Workstation / Sampler and Cakewalk's Sonar - Producer's Edition. Students work on projects combining
MIDI music from the Korg and wave samples editted in Sound Forge.
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