Title: Identify the common features of a DAW.
Course: Audio Production and Recording I (05123-IA) > Section: Understanding Modern Music Composition and the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Identification should include

- recording capabilities
- mixing capabilities
- editing capabilities
- routing capabilities
- mastering capabilities
- MIDI capabilities
- sound processing (plug-ins)
- creation of delivery files (e.g., MP3, WAV, MP4, AIFF).

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why is a Waveform Audio File Format (WAV) file bigger than an MP3 version of the same file?

- What is the function of a piano roll?
- How does one record?
- How does one bus?
- How does one mix and master a song?
- How does one load plugins?
- How does one use compression?
- How does one bounce a track?