Glossary Flashcards
(113 cards)
Acoustic?
A sound that’s produced naturally with no additional amplification.
ADSR?
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release - the controls on an envelope generator that used to shape a sound.
Ambience?
The amount of reverb that sound contains either naturally from a room or artificially added by an effect.
Amplifier?
A piece of equipment used to boost a signal.
Analogue?
When a signal or equipment uses a continuously variable physical quantity.
Attack (dynamics)?
The length of time it takes once the threshold is crossed for the process to apply its process.
Attack (synthesis)?
The length of time it take between a note being started and the point at which it reaches its peak.
Audio interface?
A device that connects a computer to audio peripherals such as microphones, speakers and musical instruments.
Automation?
Programming adjustable parameters enters to operate automatically during playback and mixing.
Auto-tune?
The trade name for famous piece of software that automatically changed the pitch to the nearest absolute pitch.
Aux/Bus?
An additional output channel for routing to effects, monitors or as an alternative output.
Bandwidth (1)?
A range of frequencies.
Bandwidth (2)?
The amount of data that can be transferred at one time.
Balanced?
A connection that has two signals in inversion to one another to reduce noise when put back into phase.
Bit depth?
The number of bits used in each sample in analogue to digital conversion.
Cardioid?
The pattern by which some microphones capture sound.
Capsule?
The element of a microphone that responds to the sound vibrations.
Channels?
The individual tracks of music.
Clipping?
Overloading a signal so that the top of the waveform becomes squared and causes distortion.
Coincident pair?
A pattern for using two directional microphones simultaneously to capture the stereo image of a sound with the capsules 90° apart placed as close together as possible.
Compression (dynamics)?
A process for controlling the dynamic range of a sound, reducing the volume of peaks above a threshold by a predetermined ratio.
Compression (data)?
The process of encoding a digital audio file to take up less space.
Condenser microphone?
A microphone that captures sound by measuring the changes in capacitance as the diaphragm moves.
Convolution reverb?
A reverb that adds ambience by applying sampling the reverb tail of a room and calculating the response of sounds within those spaces.