Sound production technology Sound production technology APEv2 tags are used to add metadata, such as the title, artist, or track number, to digital audio files. The APEv1 tag was designed for the Monkey's Audio format. Frank Klemm extended the format to add a header, allowing APE tags to be at the beginning of files, and also allowed metadata values to be Unicode rather than simply ASCII. ...more on Wikipedia about "APEv2 tag"
Aphex is a brand of audio signal processing equipment. Aphex Systems was founded in 1975 in Massachusetts by Marvin Caesar and Curt Knoppel, the inventor of the Aural Exciter™. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aphex Systems"
The AV300 is a series of video MP4 players with MP3 sound made by Archos. It comes in 20, 40, and 60 GB models that are about 3.5" wide by 2" tall. It incorporates a 3.5" LCD color screen (diagonal) that is great for movies, pictures and music. ...more on Wikipedia about "AV300"
The BBC Research Department made major contributions to broadcast technology, carrying out original research in many areas, and developing items like the Peak programme meter (PPM) which became the basis for many world standards. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBC Research Department"
BEHRINGER Spezielle Studiotechnik GmbH (Behringer) is a German company, founded in its present form in 1989, that manufactures and sells musical equipment. The company began outsourcing manufacturing to China before it was common among other manufacturers in this field. By doing this, the company has managed to be a major player in the low cost segment of such equipment. The company has been accused of copying other manufacturers' designs, resulting in corporate lawsuits from Alesis, Mackie, and Roland (makers of the BOSS Brand). These lawsuits and the, sometimes improbable, low price of Behringer's equipment has resulted in a somewhat questionable reputation amongst some music professionals, with accusations of shoddy craftsmanship and low longevity of their equipment. However, Behringer has been able to provide music technology students and enthusiasts with user-friendly products at a low cost in comparison to their competitors. They use Jensen brand speakers, which are very good quality and also used by Fender. They make very low priced amps that provide good tones, many different adjustments and also a series that comes with over 20 digital effects (auto-wah, chorus, flanger, etc.) built in. These effects use the company's "V-Tone" technology, which models them to sound like analog effects (which typically sound clearer and sharper). ...more on Wikipedia about "Behringer"
A blendtape is a popular type of mixtape theme use by mixtape disc jockeys. A DJ creates a blend by taking the acapella version of one song and the instrumental of another to make a whole new track. There is also multi-beat blends with more than one beat or acapella for one track. Mostly done by matching the tempos of the tracks. Another type of blend known as a "Mash-Up" allows the DJ to be more creative by not limiting the material being use to only Hip-Hop. Such as "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force mixed with "Forever Young" by Alphaville. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blendtape"
Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as guitar effects, children's toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Although similar methods were undoubtedly used by other musicians and engineers previously, this method of music creation is said to be pioneered by Reed Ghazala in the 1960s. He does not claim to be the inventor of the concept, but to have originated the term "circuit bending". Indeed, Mark Vail's book "Vintage Synthesizers" has a section in which Serge Tcherepnin, designer of the famous Serge Modular synthesizers, discusses his early experiments in the 1950's with transistor radios, in which he found sensitive circuit points in those simple electronic devices and brought them out to "body contacts" on the plastic chassis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circuit bending"
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Clipping is one form of distortion that occurs when an amplifier is overdriven, which happens when it attempts to increase voltage or current beyond its limits. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipping (music)"
A Crystal Earphone (more properly called a piezoelectric earphone, pronounced pee-zo) is made of a material that changes its shape when connected to a source of electricity. Some crystals such as quartz, and Rochelle's Salt are piezoelectric. Some ceramics (such as those made with barium titanate) are also piezoelectric. A common piezoelectric earphone is made of a disk of brass that is coated with barium titanate ceramic. When electricity is connected to it, the ceramic bends the brass disk, and we can hear the vibrations this causes in the air. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crystal earpiece"
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) composition takes advantage of the MIDI interface to allow musical data files to be shared among various electronic instruments by using a standard list of commands and parameters known as General MIDI (GM). Because the musical is simply data and not actually recorded wave forms, (the data is essentially a series of "on" and "off" commands, along with numerical information) and is therefore maintained in a small file format. Several computer programs allow manipulation of the data so that composing for an entire orchestra is possible and can be reproduced by any electronic instrument that adheres to the GM standards. There are many websites that allow downloads of popular songs as well as classical music. ...more on Wikipedia about "MIDI composition"
Midiboard is a contraction of Midi and Piano keyboard, Midiboards were keyboards sold without sound synthesis during the later part of the 1980s to address the needs of performance artists who needed a master keyboard to control racks of Midi synthesis modules (synthesizers without keyboards), a separation that was made possible with MIDI technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Midiboard"
A mix tape (commonly the two words are stuck together as mixtape), or mixed tape, is a homemade compilation of songs (typically copyrighted pop music taken from other sources) recorded in a specific order onto a compact audio cassette, generally intended 'for promotional use only', as a soundtrack to social events or as a gift. With the advent of affordable digital audio, creating and distributing mixes in the form of a compact disc or MP3 playlist has become the method of choice for homemade mixes, but the term mix tape is still the most common one and will be used throughout this article. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mixtape"
A music workstation is piece of electronic musical equipment providing the facilities of: ...more on Wikipedia about "Music workstation"
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that defines each musical note in an electronic musical instrument such as a synthesizer, precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments and computers to exchange data, or "talk", with each other. MIDI does not transmit audio - it simply transmits digital information about a music performance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musical Instrument Digital Interface" www.shortopedia.com for you! Sound_production_technology
A peak programme meter (PPM) is an instrument for indicating the level, loudness or volume of an electronic audio signal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peak programme meter"
A public address system, abbreviated PA system, is an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas. It is an amplification setup with amplifier and loudspeakers, used when playing live to an audience. The PA system will be driven from a mixer at which the engineer will put together the incoming microphones and instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Public address"
A recording medium is a physical material that holds information expressed in any of the existing recording formats. ...more on Wikipedia about "Recording medium"
A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound card"
A sound reinforcement system is an electromechanical system for accurately amplifying, reproducing, and sometimes recording audio, so that persons not near the original source may experience the sound as if they were. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound reinforcement system"
Syntheway VST Instruments and Effects, combines advanced sampling engine and synthesizing techniques into VST architecture. The company was founded by Daniel Alberto Laiseca and has been making musical instruments since August 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Syntheway"
A Tungsten is a type of phonograph stylus. They are constructed from tungsten wire, which is held in a metal shank. Unlike a steel stylus, a tungsten stylus has a tubular rather than a conical shape, meaning that the cross-section of the stylus remains the same as the stylus wears down, which in turn means that tungsten styluses may be used for more plays than steel ones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tungsten (music)"
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Turntablism is a subgenre of hip hop, emphasising manipulation of a vinyl record on a disc records. One who engages in turntablism is a turntablist: A term created in 1994 by DJ Supreme, from New Rochelle, NY, to describe the difference between a DJ who just lets records play, and one who actually manipulates the sounds of a record. This term was later popularised by DJ Babu (of the Beat Junkies and Dilated Peoples) who inscribed his mixtapes as "mixed by Babu the Turntablist." ...more on Wikipedia about "Turntablism"
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