MIDI and Digital Tools
Sound and Effects
Song Building
Music Team Roles
Workflow and Progress
100

This system sends digital note data to control virtual instruments.

What is MIDI? 

100

This adjusts highs, mids, and lows to clean up or shape sound.

What is EQ (Equalization)? 

100

Music created from scratch without copying or using premade beats.

What is an original composition? 

100

This person shapes the sound and direction of a song.

Who is a Producer? 

100

Improving work based on feedback to make it better.

What is Revision? 

200

These are digital instruments inside a DAW that don’t require microphones.

What are digital instruments? 

200

This effect makes a sound feel like it’s in a room or space.

What is Reverb? 

200

A pre-recorded sound used in a new song, often requiring copyright permission.

What is a sample? 

200

This person helps with communication, planning, and performance readiness.

Who is the Artist Manager? 

200

The process of balancing and combining tracks into one song.

What is Mixing? 

300

This process snaps notes to the beat to fix timing.

What is Quantization? 

300

This controls volume levels so loud sounds don’t overpower and quiet sounds are heard.

What is Compression? 

300

Balancing all tracks so nothing is too loud or hidden.

What is Mixing? 

300

This role focuses on audience, image, and promotion.

Who is the Marketing Lead? 

300

The overall step-by-step process of creating a song from start to finish.

What is Composing? 

400

This controls how hard or soft a MIDI note is played, affecting expression.

What is Velocity? 

400

This places sounds left, right, or center in the stereo field.

What is Panning? 

400

A repeated drum or chord pattern used to build a song.

What is a loop? 

400

This person keeps the group organized and on task like a captain.

Who is the team leader? 

400

This step comes after Mixing. 

What is Mastering? 

500

A short section of music that repeats over and over.

What is a Loop? 

500

This is the final step where the whole song is polished and balanced for release.

What is Mastering? 

500

Digital notes that can be edited after recording to change pitch or timing.

What is MIDI? 

500

Working together through communication and problem-solving.

What is collaboration? 

500

You would hire this type of professional to record on an original composition. 

Who is a freelance artist? 

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