Monday, February 17, 2014

Pop Quiz Guide

1. ADSR: An envelope that describes Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

2. Additive Synthesis: adding waveforms to waveforms. Invented by John Chowning in 1970s.

3. Just Intonation: Tuning system that uses whole tone ratio to describe sound (as opposed to equal temperament)

4.Frequency Modulation. Taking the frequency of one sound and adding it to another. Invented by John Chowning in 1970s.

5. Granular Synthesis. An audio particle system. Getting sound down to its essence.

8. Cutting / Splicing / Mixing / Looping / Delaying

9. Max Matthews  Bicycle Built for Two

10. Phase Vocoder

Bonus: Miller Puckette: Author of Pure Data.

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