CD-ROM Review: Use Multimedia to Learn Multimedia

Jason Krause

With today's new point-and-click authoring tools, anyone can toss together a multimedia project. But mastering the text, audio, video, hyperlinks, and varied production skills often required in creating a CD-ROM, Web page, or business presentation is another matter. The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production focuses on one special aspect of multimedia: sound.

The disc offers a thorough lesson in audio production basics, and it makes good use of plentiful examples. This product wil l be most useful for technicians who want to polish their sound skills.

Another valuable CD-ROM for audio production is the IEEE's Standards in Computer Generated Music. This CD offe rs essays and documents concerning desktop music publishing, MIDI, high-level music programming, digital audio, 3-D sound, multimedia, and computer-assisted instruction.

The amount of information varies from subject to subject. The CD may disappoint people interested in a specific angle (e.g., only one study covers 3-D sound). Overall, however, this disc delivers practical information for audio developers on a wide variety of topics.

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Product Information

The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production

Company:  AP Professional
Phone:    (800) 321-5068
Internet: 
http://www.hbuk.co.uk/app/approf.htm

Price:    $44.95

Standards in Computer Generated Music

Company:  IEEE
Phone:    (800) CS-B
OOKS
Internet: 
http://www.computer.org

Price:    $49.95 for IEEE Computer Society members
          $69 for nonmembers

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Let the Sound Begin

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The Sonic CD covers techniques of audio production.