Soundbooth CS5 Essentials

Introduction
Welcome
What is Soundbooth CS5?
Using the exercise files

1. Understanding Analog and Digital Audio
Taking a look at basic sound waves
Taking a look at complex sound waves
Understanding digital audio concepts

2. The Soundbooth Workflow and Workspace
Understanding the workflow
Touring the workspace
Customizing the workspace

3. Importing and Recording Audio
Opening and importing files
Setting up recording hardware
Recording vocals and instruments

4. Editing Audio Clips
Playing and monitoring audio
Viewing audio waveforms and spectral displays
Selecting audio
Trimming and deleting audio
Copying, cutting, and pasting audio and inserting silence
Adjusting volume
Using specialized volume techniques
Creating and using loops
Stretching time and shifting pitch
Working with video files

5. Repairing Audio
Identifying noises: Hums, hisses, clicks, and pops
Removing background noise: Audio tape hiss
Removing vinyl record clicks and pops
Removing individual sounds

6. Enhancing and Optimizing Audio
Previewing Soundbooth effects
Applying and adjusting standard effects
Applying and customizing advanced effects

7. Working with Specific Soundbooth Audio Effects
Applying reverb and echo: Analog Delay and Convolution Reverb
Using delay-based effects: Chorus/Flanger and Phaser
Understanding sound-level effects: Compressor and Dynamics
Applying equalization effects: Graphic and Parametric
Exploring other special effects: Distortion and Vocal Enhancer
Setting the all-in-one effect: Mastering

8. Building and Mixing Multitrack files
Understanding multitrack concepts
Building a multitrack file
Adjusting track and clip volume and panning
Adding effects to individual tracks
Using Soundbooth sound effects in your multitrack file
Using three multitrack editing techniques: Duplicating, splitting, and cross-fading
Working with video in multitrack
Using professional production studio mixing techniques

9. Customizing Soundbooth Scores
Understanding how scores work
Previewing, downloading, and inserting scores into multitrack files
Adjusting score duration, intensity and parts

10. Using Advanced Features
Dynamically linking to Premiere Pro and After Effects projects
Turning spoken dialogue into searchable metadata

11. Saving Audio Files and Multitrack Mixdowns
Saving snapshots
Saving entire files or selected ranges
Saving and mixing down multitrack files

Conclusion
Goodbye