Unit 3: Further Online Tools (90 mins.)

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3.1 Simple Music Creation Tools - Tutorials
These tutorials feature a demonstration of more sophisticated music creation tools (World Music Composer, Incredibox and Perfect Pitch). Click on each of the links below to watch a tutorial:

3.2 Music Creation Activity
Experiment with these 3 music creation tools:

3.3 Drum Machines and Sequencers
There are some great drum machines and music sequencers freely available on the Internet. They mostly work in the same way as Make Beats and Beatlab, which are demonstrated in these tutorials:

3.4 Drum Machine and Sequencers - Play Session
Try out Make Beats or Beatlab for yourself:

3.5 Online Audio Cutter Demo
This is a very useful tool for trimming an audio clip or music file. In this demonstration I will take England's King Edward's 6-minute Abdication Speech from 1936 and extract the first 33 seconds from it:

3.6 Audio Cutting Activity
Save some sound files from the Internet on to your computer. (This page has a large selection of copyright-free sound and music files) Try using the Online Audio Cutter (below) to chop pieces from the audio files, and save the resulting shorter sounds on to your computer.

3.7 List of Sound Editing and Sound Creation Tools
Spend some time exploring this list of Online Sound and Music Editing Tools The list will open in a new tab. When you have finished exploring the list, close the tab and continue to the assignment in Section 3.8.

3.8 Assignment 3 - Stitch 2 Sound Files Together
Use the Online Audio Joiner website tool (from the list in Section 3.7 above) to stitch 2 sound files together to create 1 single file. Save the resulting file to your computer and submit it to the course tutor via the 'Sound File Editing Task' submission facility at the bottom of the course Moodle page. (If you are unsure in relation to this task watch the tutorial here)

3.9 Video, Animation and Presentation Tools
Spend some time browsing through this list of Video, Animation and Presentation Tools. Tutorials are provided below for 2 of the most well-known online presentation tools: