PAC 314 / PAC 315 Electronic Music Lab Rules
Note: PAC 264 Digital Media Teaching Classroom Lab rules may be found here.
These are labs available for work in electronic music and sound relating specifically to coursework at the University at Albany. The labs are exclusively designed for digital audio digitizing, editing, compositing and output, recording, composition and sound design, as well as some related electronic media. Write papers, surf the web, and check your e-mail at another campus facility or on your own computer. Use of this lab for external commercial projects is expressly prohibited and violators will have their lab privileges permanently revoked.
ONLY students who are currently registered in a course listed in the Music Department, or cross-listed with Fine Art, or Theater, for which work in these labs is required may use these facilities and then only when admitted to the room by an authorized faculty member or administrator. Mus 326 students have 24 hour, 7-day / week access to PAC 315, provided they call Campus Security 20 minutes in advance of their arrival.
Do not, under any circumstances, permit someone you do not know to have access to this lab. If you bring an artistic collaborator with you, you may not leave them alone unattended in the labs.
Food, drink or smoke are prohibited in the labs.
The lab door must be closed and locked when the last authorized student leaves the room. You cannot leave the door propped open while you leave the studios, even briefly.
Do not install any software on these machines. Violation of this will result in your loss of lab privileges. There are no exceptions.
Do not modify system settings, except as expressedly permitted by an authorized faculty member.
Files must reside in folders. You may store locally on the ³Workspace² (sometimes called ³Extras²) drive, but you must make a folder with your name on it inside your class folder. Files found in the applications folder or left stray on the desktop will be routinely deleted. This includes files with clever names such as "Do Not Delete Me!" Folders in excess of 2 GB will routinely be deleted.
Always "log out" of the computers before you leave.
Please do not shut these computers down. Do not share the codes or passwords for computer log-in or server access with anyone not in your class.
There are cassette recorders and DAT recorders in the lab, connected to the computers for digitizing tapes. Do not connect any other recorder or peripheral without the permission of your instructor.
PAC 315 is for the exclusive use of members of the Mus326 ³Creative Projects² course. Students in Mus325 are not permitted to use this lab. Mus326 students who re-patch audio I/O must restore the original set-up when they are done working.
Your use of this facility constitutes an agreement to these rules. If problems arise, stop work and send a detailed note to Professor Bob Gluck.
Have fun. Do brilliant work, but please be gentle with the computers and studio equipment. It is all that we collectively have.