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How do they work? These days when building a computer system, most people are interested in the specs of the mainboard. After all it is the main component that connects every other component inside the enclosure. It solely determines what type of CPU and RAM you will be using, and what space you have available for additional components. Not many are concerned much with the audio specs as these days they are pretty much well integrated into many new motherboards and come standard with a minimal of 6 channels unless you buy a very cheap integrated board which will at least have stereo sound. The sound chip is usually made by one of the major semiconductor SoC vendors like Realtek, Creative or Intel and is integrated on the board and has external ports for device attachment. Various types of audio ports on motherboards When connecting audio hardware like a speaker system, microphone or Tape/CD recorder to a PC, one of four ports can be used which are:

Traditional file storage In the 2000s and the very early 2010s, I could remember reaching for a blank DVD/CD or plugging in my portable USB hard drive to back up my music, photos, videos and documents. Yea what a time it was. We made sure our the lasers in our optical disc drives were up firing and burning and still enjoyed the sound of the drives spinning up like a jet engine when we dropped in a DVD or CD into the tray and closed it. The humming sound of USB mechanical Hard Disks spinning up and the LEDs flashing in a myriad of patterns were assuring to our ears and eyes. It meant that these devices were ready to accept our precious data in bulk transfer with just a couple clicks and drags of the mouse. It inspired us with that comforting feeling that even if our computer crashed or didn't turn on one day, that we could take these storage devices or discs to a friend or family member's PC or any other computer and still see all of our files on screen, safely nested on these p

The sound of music touches our soul Throughout the course of history, sound has been known to be a form of communication between living beings on this earth. It is like its own language with its unique vocabulary. Music can simply be defined as live or recorded sound that is propagated in a pattern which has a pleasant aural perception when we hear it. Most times even in live performances, we hear theses sounds reproduced electronically through loudspeakers but often time we hear them from their original analog sources. Either way these propagated sound waves are received by us via our ears and then processed by our brain before we can hear, listen and even feel them.  In fact research in neuroscience has shown that the brain reacts to music differently from oral and written words. More parts of the brain are actively stimulated when we listen to music than when we read or hear a speech. Music can be conveyed in many forms whether that be vocal, instrumental, song, music video or these

An Overview of the Steelpan The steelpan , steel drum or pan as it is called, is part of the world's ocean of musical apparatus. It is a simple-looking instrument that produces a wide range of pitches (G1-F6) on the chromatic scale (12 tone scale in tonal music). It originated in the small Caribbean twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago in the early to mid 1900s. When played collectively with other musicians, this is referred to as steelband or a steel orchestra and the players themselves are called pannists . It is made from standard 55 US-gallon industrial steel drum containers used in the shipment of chemicals internationally, hence the term 'drum' referring to the cylindrical steel container from which it is made. The straight stick or Panstick as it is called, seen in the photo above, is used in a pair to play the pan and sometimes 2 pairs, one held in each hand, are used by pannists for more tonal nuance. The tip of the sticks have different sized rubber fitted