"Music Tech Terms and Definitions,"

Entry Dated: 2013-09-09 02:26:05
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MIDI or Musical Instrument Digital Interface is a way that music centric third party products can connect and interact with your mac or pc to create, edit, and compose music software on programs such as Garageband or Finale. An example of such a product is the piano that is connected to this Mac

9/11/13:The Standard MIDI File (SMF) is a file format that provides a standardized way for sequences to be saved, transported, and opened in other systems.  

9/16/13: Panning of audio refers to the spread of a signal into a steroe or multi-channel sound field. Also panning can refer to the channeling of certain sounds into specific ears.

9/17/13 ADSR stands for Attack Decay Sustain Release.

It means that it creates a sudden change in the sound, whether loud or soft. Also we could control the speed of change and the rate of release. 

10/7/13

Beat-boxing is the creation of complex and rhythmic beats with only the human mouth and throat.

Musical looping is when you take a pre-existing track and cause it to repeat any number of times.  

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