MIDI and Digital Tools
This system sends digital note data to control virtual instruments.
What is MIDI?
This adjusts highs, mids, and lows to clean up or shape sound.
What is EQ (Equalization)?
Music created from scratch without copying or using premade beats.
What is an original composition?
This person shapes the sound and direction of a song.
Who is a Producer?
Improving work based on feedback to make it better.
What is Revision?
These are digital instruments inside a DAW that don’t require microphones.
What are digital instruments?
This effect makes a sound feel like it’s in a room or space.
What is Reverb?
A pre-recorded sound used in a new song, often requiring copyright permission.
What is a sample?
This person helps with communication, planning, and performance readiness.
Who is the Artist Manager?
The process of balancing and combining tracks into one song.
What is Mixing?
This process snaps notes to the beat to fix timing.
What is Quantization?
This controls volume levels so loud sounds don’t overpower and quiet sounds are heard.
What is Compression?
Balancing all tracks so nothing is too loud or hidden.
What is Mixing?
This role focuses on audience, image, and promotion.
Who is the Marketing Lead?
The overall step-by-step process of creating a song from start to finish.
What is Composing?
This controls how hard or soft a MIDI note is played, affecting expression.
What is Velocity?
This places sounds left, right, or center in the stereo field.
What is Panning?
A repeated drum or chord pattern used to build a song.
What is a loop?
This person keeps the group organized and on task like a captain.
Who is the team leader?
This step comes after Mixing.
What is Mastering?
A short section of music that repeats over and over.
What is a Loop?
This is the final step where the whole song is polished and balanced for release.
What is Mastering?
Digital notes that can be edited after recording to change pitch or timing.
What is MIDI?
Working together through communication and problem-solving.
What is collaboration?
You would hire this type of professional to record on an original composition.
Who is a freelance artist?