This wiki is intended for students in A&HM 4029.001 at Teachers College Columbia University taught by Dr. James Frankel.
Students: Please select one of the music technology terms below and enter your definition. You will need to know the password to the site to edit. If you have the password, just click "Edit Page" and then "Save" when you are done editing. To get the password to the site, please email me at jtfrankel@hotmail.com. Feel free to edit any other definition on the site as well.
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MIDI: Diane Scanlon- MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It allows electronic musical instruments and computer to communicate with one another by transmiting digital data "event messages" such as the pitch and velocity, it also communicates parameters such as volume, vibrato and panning, cues, and clock signals to set the tempo.
MULTIMEDIA: media which uses a combination of different discriptive forms. Media that consists a mixture of text, sound, video or graphic images. Nowadays, multimedia has its interactive aspect; such as touch-screen, mouse, or even inserting texts. Software often help website to develope it as a multimedia formatL such as quicktime, shockwave.
GENERAL MIDI: The standard sound list created by electronic keyboard manufacturers so that all MIDI instruments and computers would have the same numbering system for sounds. Therefore, when a MIDI file is created on an instrument, but then played on another, the sound will be the same. For instance, 1 is always piano, and 10 is always drums. Today, computers even have General Midi (GM) capability built into them. There are 128 GM sounds.
MIDI INTERFACE:A device that connects or interfaces computers and electronic instruments in order for them to communicate via MIDI. There are many different types of MIDI interfaces. Many Windows computers have a MIDI interface built into the internal sound card whereas so Mac computers don't and need an external interface to be connected to the computer. Ai Kuroda-Khaliq
SYNTHESIZER: This is an electronic instrument capable of producing a wide variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies. There are three main types of synthesizers which differ in operation; analog, digital and software-based. These create electrical signals, rather than diret sounds, which are then processed through a loudspeaker or set of headphones. (R. Rivera)
TOUCH SENSITIVE:
VELOCITY SWITCH:
USB KEYBOARD CONTROLLER:
VST: Virtual Studio Technology, developed by the German company Steinberg, is a digital recording studio designed to emulate an actual recording studio set-up. It utilizes different plug-ins, software, audio editors and recording devices for unlimited musical exploration. (M.Marino)
DAW: (Digital Audio Workstation) is a combination of hardware and software designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of a DAW is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words.
MANGUM
MULTI TIMBRAL: Is usually dealing with synthesizers, samplers, and music workstations. These electronic musical instruments can be multi timbral by producing two or more timbres as the same time. (J. Egger)
DRUM MAP:
SEQUENCER: A sequencer is like a cassette recorder, in that it stores and plays back performances. The difference is that a sequencer has the capacity to edit these performances. Early sequencers (1960s and 70s) could control 8-16 events, or notes, at a time. When computer technology was introduced, sequencers were able to separate and store a lot more information about a performance, and so modern sequencers can fine-tune ever so much more. For example, pitch and tempo are recorded as separate pieces of information. Today's sequencers are either built into an electronic keyboard (the "playback & edit" option), "dedicated" (built into a small box that works a lot like a tape recorder with great editing capability, and is easy to carry around), or programmed into a computer via sequencing software. Emy Vanderpool
MP3: A digital audio encoding format. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storate, as well as a encoding device for the transfer and play back of music on digital audio players.
AIFF:
Short for Audio Interchange file format. A format used for storing or transferring sampled sounds.
OGG VORBIS:
WAV: (Meghan McDevitt) Short for Waveform, WAV is a common type of uncompressed ditigal audio that was created by Microsoft and IBM computers.
CAI: Computer-assisted instruction, can be used to introduce and reinforce musical concepts in music thoery, ear training, piano instruction, and instrument fingerings. CAI serves as an umbrella for several interchangeable terms including computer-assisted instruction in music and computer-based music instruction. Another common CAI term is courseware wich is a software designed to be used in an educational environment. Ko-chu Mo
ANALOG RECORDING:
DIGITAL RECORDING:
P2P NETWORKS:
MUSIC PIRACY:
DRM: is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It may also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. DRM overlaps with software copy protection to some extent, however the term "DRM" is usually applied to creative media (music, films, etc.) whereas the term "copy protection" tends to refer to copy protection mechanisms in computer software.
PODCAST: a series of digital media files which are distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.
VODCAST:
SAMPLE RATE:
DIGITAL I/0:
MIDI KEYBOARD CONTROLLER: a keyboard that can transmit MIDI data but has a limited amoung of built-in, or on-board, sounds. The primary function of a MIDI keyboard controller is to act as an output device and to control other MIDI modules in the studio and/or performance. There are two categories of keyboard controllers: computer desk-top models and performance controllers.
PITCH BEND WHEEL:
MODULATION WHEEL:
FM SYNTHESIS:
LOSSLESS COMPRESSION:
LOSSY COMPRESSION: **
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