! ! ! ! ! ! ! Analoge & digital timeline Maximilian Crosby Music Technology ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

© ! ! ! ! The irst ever The phonautograph was the irst ever 1859 recording device. The machine traced audio recording onto smoke-blackened paper or glass. The only problem was the recording could not be played back. It wasn’t until 2008 that we found a way to listen to the recordings. This device was created by a Frenchman called Edouard leon Scott.

The invention of This is an analogue devise that works 1877 just like a record player accept the the phonograph audio is ampliied using a long expanding cylinder to amplify the sound. The invention of A piano roll is a long cylinder that uses 1883 groves or holes to store data the piano roll The invention of The Gramophone record commonly 1898 known as the vinyl record was the the gramophone irst global mass produced product to record record sound. It’s a big disk with engraved markings that a needle is ran across and picks up sound. The signal is then ampliied and transmitted through a pair of speakers.

The invention of Mechanical analog. Electrically cut 1925 from ampliied microphone signal. electrically cut This was the irst time someone could vinyl straight instantly record what a person is saying through a microphone. Or not from a even what a person is saying. You microphone could record hole bands but the device only used one microphone maximum

© The invention of Magnetic tape was big because it was 1930 a very good way of recording high real-to-real, quality audio. Better than vinyl in fact. magnetic tape. The most common was a 7 inch real of it. Although it was invented in the 1930’s it only started to be used in the 1950’s. You could also record more onto tape. The irst way of using it was the real-to-real method. So as the tape was transferred from one real to another the data was read in between reals.

Old time radio / Old time radio used short, medium 1930 and long wave signals to broadcast. Electrical Old time radio or OTR was a period of transcriptions radio programming before the television in around 1920

Vinyl Record This was the irst time the 1948 gramophone record was mass- produced. 1957 Stereophonic Vinyl Record

4-Track (Stereo- The Stereo-Pak was a 4 track real of 1962 magnetic tape inside a plastic casing. Pak) This devise was commonly used in cars before It was replaced. Later an 8- track version was manufactured.

Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette also called the 1963 audiocassette or cassette tape replaced the Stereo-Pak and was much smaller but could hold 8 tracks. This devise was ideal for cars and transportation of high quality audio.

The Stereo 8 also known as the 8- 1964 8-Track Track uses magnetic tape much like a (Stereo-8) compact cassette. It is magnetic tape sound recording technology. A very useful and portable device.

© Microcassette A micro cassette is what you think it 1969 is. It’s a very small version of a Compact Cassette. By making the tape thinner they were able to get a record/play time of 30 minuets on each side at only a quarter of the size.

Minicassette The minicassette is a tape cassette 1969 format introduced by Philips. It is used primarily in dictation machines and was also employed as data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer.

Quadraphonic 8- Quadraphonic is a very fancy way of 1970 saying surround sound. You can sort of Track (Quad-8) see it in the name. Quad = 4 Phonic = (Q8) sound. This was the irst time an 8- Track machine had Quadraphonic capabilities.

Quadraphonic The irst time a vinyl record could be 1971 played in 4.0 surround sound. Vinyl Record Betamax Digital The Betamax is a consumer-level 1975 analog videocassette magnetic tape. Audio Developed by sony it was released in Japan on may 10 contain .50 in (12.7mm) wide videotape. 1976 Elcaset Sony’s version of a Compact Cassette. Laserdisc A laserdisc is very much like a CD 1978 apart from it’s 3x the size as the CD’s and DVD’s we know and love today.

Compact Disc A Compact Disc is on optical disc used 1982 to store digital data. The disc was (CD-DA) originaly developed to store and play back audio only. Later different types came along. The CD has a maximum storage capacity of 700MB

© The AIFF was the irst digital ile 1985 AIFF format for holding audio iles. The ile type is owned by apple and was the irst on the sceen for various reasons but the main one being apple computers needed an audio ile format irst. High Deinition The HDCD was designed by Microsoft 1986 and was supposed to offer a greater Compatable dynamic range than Redbooks audio Digital CD’s. Digital Audio The DAT is a single recording device 1987 developed by Sony. This device uses Tape (DAT) magnetic tape much like a compact cassette and looks a lot like it to but it is half the size and records digital rather than analog.

Sound Tools Sound Tools started in 1989 and was a 1987 revolutionary peace of music editing software. As the software was developed it was later named Pro Tools and is still one of the worlds leading music editing software.

The Wavefrom Audio File Format 1991 WAV WAVE or very rarely called audio for windows is microsofts equivalent of an AIFF ile. Digital compact The DDC was created by Philips and 1992 this is just a digital version of a Cassette compact Cassette MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 or 1993 MP3 more commonly known as an MP3 was the irst lossy format. MP3’s are very portable and have a small ile size but have very bat quality.

The DVD is the same shape and size of 1997 DVD a CD accept it can hold 4.7GB of data. Developed by Sony. Philips, Toshiba and Panasonic. DVDs are most commonly used for ilms.

© The DVD-Audio is a digital format 1999 DVD-A designed for audio. It offered high idelity audio on a DVD. A lac ile is much like an MP3 ile but 2000 FLAC designed to be mass produced and given out for free at low quality for marketing purposes.

Very clos to the same time that the 2001 iPod iPod was released apples AAC ile type was released. iPod changed the industry due to it’s capacity for such a small size. Thousands of songs could be carried around in the palm of your hand.

AAC is a lossy audio format owned by 2001 AAC apple. Since MP3 is copyrighted by Microsoft, Apple had to make there own lossy format to compete.

Vorbis is another lossy audio 2002 Vorbis compression ile type much like MP3 an AAC but this one was designed to things like Pen drives of songs could be given free as a marketing technique

Logic pro is apples widely known 2002 Logic Pro audio editing software. This is Pro Tools’s main competitor. Duel disk is a type of double sided CD/ 2003 DualDisc DVD. It was made by a bunch of record labels such as Sony/BMG must entertainment, Warner music group, EMI and Universal. Some might call them the big four. This was designed to give better audio quality than normal DVD’s or CD’s.

ALE and ALAC is apples lossless 2004 Apple compression ile type. Windows had invented WAV and apple need a lossless competitor for it’s own line of computers.

© HD DVD is a discontinued type of DVD. 2005 HD DVD The DVD is a high density DVD developed by Toshiba was the competitor of Blu-ray Disc in the Format war. The Blue-ray Disc is much like a DVD 2006 Blu-ray Disc accept it’s designed to contain 25GB of data a side instead of 7.5GB. This means you can it a better quality ilm or audio ile on something exactly the same size as a DVD.

iPhone is apples revolutionary phone 2007 iPhone that combined an iPod and a Phone. The phone also allowed apps to be widely and easily used across the nation. Some apps even allow you to live edit some songs, pictures, anything. Slot music is a type of SD card used to 2008 slotMusic store lots of music and sold in places like supermarket. This was great for people that didn’t care about quality and wanted lots of cheep tunes.

The blue-ray spec CD was 2008 Blu-ray spec manufactured by Sony in japan. Instead of using a red laser it uses a CD red, more sophisticated one granting better sound quality when reading/ writing.

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