Category: Music Glossary
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Chorus
– “Chorus” is One of the Most Complicated Modulation Effects – Imagine a Choir where everyone Sings the same Melody but with a slightly different Pitch and at a slightly different Timing – Like the Flanger, it Creates Duplicates of the Original Audio but it is Designed to Sound more Natural than a Flanger –…
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Circle of 4ths/5ths
– shows a Diagram with Relationships between all Chromatic Keys – also shows Key Signatures for Relationships between Diatonic Scales (Major/Minor) – Consecutive (aufeinanderfolgend, fortlaufend) Keys on Circle of 5ths share same Notes and only differ by on Pitch (closely related Tonalities) – Jazz refers more to 4ths while Classical Music to 5ths
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Clipping
General – Clipping is basically what Happens when a Digital Signal is Past Zero dBFS – unless it is a Desired Effect you Want to achieve, it is always Sounding Bad by Introducing Digital Distortion along with several other Problems (Do Not do this by Mistake) – so always Check the Signal and try to…
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Clusters
General – a Chord Comprising at Least 3 Consecutive Scale Tones Sounding at the Same Time or in Close Proximity to Each Other (Often Semi-Tones) – i.e. a Chromatic Cluster is at Least 2 Notes 1 Semitone Apart Played Together – For Example, 3 “Adjacent” Piano Keys Struck at the Same Time Produce a Tone…
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Comb Filter
– Basically a Cancellation and Re-Enforcement in Time of Certain Harmonics, Appearing when Equal Frequencies Overlap Each Other at Different Positions (Phases) in Movement – you can Force the Comb Effect with 2 Equal Generators (e.g. White Noise or SAW Wave), where you Move One Signal in Time (Milliseconds) by Offsetting via a Delay or…
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Compression vs Expansion (Dynamics)
General Downward Compression Example Downward Compression – Compress Just the Snare Frequencies every Time it Sounds, but Not Cut Surrounding Frequencies Quiet as Much 1) Exact same Setup as Expansion Example 2 but in Compression Mode 2) Means that the Actual Snare Drum Frequency will be Compressed but the Surrounding Frequencies Stay More or Less…
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Control Voltage
– on a Synthesizer, you can Imagine “Voltage” as if a Hand is Changing Voltage over Time, i.e. a “Robot Hand” which you can Tell what to Do – you Decide what Parameter will be Voltage Controlled and the Voltage Driven Parameters have their Separate Knobs to Shape the Result (Depending on the Effect, e.g.…