Basic Music Tech
Frequency (in hertz) that represents the "standard tuning pitch."
What is 440hz?
A form of energy that travels in waves and is produced and transmitted by vibrating matter
What is sound?
DAW designed by Apple for use on Apple devices that allows users to create music or podcasts.
What is GarageBand?
Electronic musical instrument that creates and controls MIDI sound by being plugged into a computer with a DAW.
(Hint: NOT a keyboard)
What is a MIDI Controller?
Clef used to show where musicians read and write low notes. Also known as the F Clef
What is Bass Clef?
Small metal instrument with a handle and two prongs that are traditionally used to tune musical instruments.
The distance between a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
Simple online DAW that can be used to create loops, record and edit sound virtually on different devices.
What is BandLab?
Electronic musical instrument that generates sound by the creation and manipulation of artificial waveforms.
What is a synthesizer?
A note one ledger line above the treble clef staff
What is A?
A way of recording that pre-dates DAWs, popular after WW2, and allowed for sound engineers to chop, slice, overdub and re-record tracks.
What is a Tape Recorder?
Digital software that uses virtual versions of actual audio equipment that allow users to record, edit, and produce music on your computer.
What is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
Industry standard DAW that can be used to record and edit sounds which can be exported and used in other DAWs.
What is Audacity?
Device used to create and visualize different wave shapes. Shows how the waves oscillate.
What is an Oscillator?
A key signature with 4 flats.
What is Ab Major?
Device used to convert one form of energy into another, and are the most important device in music technology. (microphones and loudspeakers are these)
What are transducers?
How many cycles the sound makes, or how frequently a wave arrives, resulting in the pitch of the given note.
What is Frequency?
The process of aligning the notes that have been recorded in a DAW or MIDI sequencer with a grid, allowing for the time to be edited
What is Quantization?
Modular Synthesizer created in 1964 as a commercial analog synthesizer. Used by popular bands like The Beatles & Pink Floyd. Named after its creator, Robert Moog.
What is the Moog Synthesizer?
An augmented 5th above F
What is C#?
A four stage envelope, charting a sound's course from beginning to end (ADSR)
What is Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release?
Virtual data that triggers hardware synths, drum machines, and software plug-in instruments within a DAW. Communicates virtual instruments with computer software to make sound.
What is MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
What is equalization?
Electronic musical instrument created by Robert Moog that is controlled without physical contact by the performer. Often used to make strange sounds in horror movies.
What is a theremin?
The diminished 7th chord in the key of C major
What is a B diminished chord?