Local On/Off
A function to allow the keyboard and sound generating section of a keyboard synthesizer to be used independently of each other.
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Logic
A type of electronic circuitry used for processing binary signals comprising two discrete voltage levels.
Loom
A number of separate cables bound together for neatness and convenience.
Synthesizer
An electronic musical instrument designed to create a wide range of sounds, both imitative and abstract.
SysEx
(System Exclusive) A part of the MIDI standard that allows manufacturers to define their own specific message formats, commonly used to dump and load a specific product’s patch data.
Talkback
A system designed to enable voice communication between rooms.
Tape Head
The part of a tape machine that transfers magnetic energy to the tape during recording, or reads it during playback.
Tempo
The rate of the 'beat' of a piece of music measured in beats per minute.
Test Tone
– A steady, fixed level tone recorded onto a multitrack recording, or passed over a signal connection to test the signal path and act as a reference when matching levels.
THD
Total Harmonic Distortion. A measure of the linearity of a device. The THD+N measurement includes the noise contribution as well and is an indication of the quality of an audio product.
Thru
A MIDI connector which passes on the signal received at the MIDI in socket.
Timbre
The tonal 'colour' of a sound.
Timbral
Referring to the tones that can be created by a synthesizer (see multi-timbral and bi-timbral)
Track
The term dates back to multitrack tape where the tracks are physical stripes of recorded material, located side by side along the length of the tape.
Tracking
The process of recording individual tracks to a multichannel recorder. Tracking is also often discussed in the context of MIDI guitar synthesizers or controllers where the MIDI output attempts to track the pitch of the guitar strings.
Transformer
An electrical device in which two or more separate and electrically isolated coils of wire are wound around a common ferromagnetic core. Alternating Current passing through one coil creates a varying magnetic field which induces a corresponding current in the other coil(s). In audio applications transformers are often used to convey a signal without a direct electrical connection, thus providing 'galvanic isolation' between the source and destination. Winding a transformer with different numbers of turns for each coil allows the output voltage to be increased or decreased in direct proportion – a feature widely employed in mains power-supply transformers to reduce the mains voltage to something more appropriate for the circuitry, for example, or in microphone preamp step-up transformers.
Early Reflections
The initial sound reflections from walls, floors and ceilings following a sound created in an acoustically reflective environment.
Balance
This word has several meanings in recording. It may refer to the relative levels of the left and right channels of a stereo recording (eg. Balance Control), or it may be used to describe the relative levels of the various instruments and voices within a mix (ie. Mix balance).
Bank
A specific configuration of sounds or other parameters stored in memory and accessed manually or via MIDI commands.
Binary
A counting system based on only two states: 1s and 0s. It is ideal for electronic equipment where it can be represented as high and low voltages, light on/off, N-S or S-N magnetic domains, etc.