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The NIOSH recommended exposure limit is 85 dBA over an eight-hour shift

The nu-disco vs disco house boundary is genuinely fuzzy, distinguished mainly by instrumentation origin and song form

The octave is divided into 12 equal semitones, giving 12 distinct pitch classes

The Paradise Garage paired NYC's best soundsystem with Larry Levan's total control of the room to model dance music as physical, felt sound

The pentatonic scale omits the 4th and 7th degrees of the major scale, creating a five-note, dissonance-free set

The pictorial point is created by the initial collision of a tool with the basic plane

The Post window is SuperCollider's primary feedback channel for results, warnings, and errors

The primary purpose of compression in mixing is to achieve a stable balance, not to add color

The Processing/p5.js canvas places the origin at the top-left with y increasing downward

The rave chill-out room made ambient music a mass-culture counterpart to the dancefloor from the late 1980s

The Roland TB-303 failed as a bass-guitar imitator, then its cheap, alien squelch became acid house's defining sound

The Roland TR-808's booming low-frequency bass drum made it the universal foundation of classic electro

The Roland TR-909 and TR-808 are the canonical drum machines of techno — cheap when released, later highly collectible

The sawtooth wave produces a brassy, harmonically rich sound because it contains all harmonics

The Sheffield/Yorkshire 'bleep' scene of the late 1980s was a British take on Chicago/Detroit electronics filtered through local industrial heritage

The shift from analog to digital production lowered the financial barrier for resource-constrained producers

The signal-flow model makes interconnection primary, unlike the canvas-drawing model of Processing

The Simple Desk provides direct 512-channel manual control per universe plus a cue-stack playback system

The sound() function plays a named sample and accepts colon notation to select sample variants

The TB-303 acid sound comes from high resonance, low cutoff, and accent/slide/octave programming

The temporal evolution of spectral components is the primary cue for timbre recognition

The term 'big beat' was coined in 1989 by Iain Williams of Big Bang, predating the 1990s genre

The term 'IDM' originated from a fan mailing list in 1993, not from artists or labels

The term 'Intelligent Dance Music' derives from Warp Records' 1992 Artificial Intelligence compilation series

The three functions of controlling sound in any instrument are Generation, Routing, and Modifying

The threshold is the level above which a compressor starts reducing gain

The TOPLAP Manifesto and 'Live Coding: A User's Manual' are the canonical texts for the field

The TR-808 generates percussion sounds through analog synthesis, not sample playback

The TR-808 programs beats by selecting a drum voice then toggling 16 step buttons to place hits

The TR-808's sounds are fully synthesized via Web Audio API — no samples are used

The TR-909 hi-hat is a recorded sample, not a synthesized sound

The TR-909 succeeded the 808 in 1983 as Roland's first drum machine to use samples, and became equally influential in techno and house

The transition from jungle to drum & bass involved removing reggae samples, partly in response to violence and media stigma

The treble clef reads notes above Middle C; the bass clef reads notes below Middle C using the same ledger-line counting method

The tresillo is a one-bar 3+3+2 rhythm that loops the first half of son clave and recurs across many genres

The tritone (6 semitones) is spelled augmented fourth or diminished fifth depending on context

The Turing Machine module is not a computer-science Turing machine — the name is evocative, not technical

The two-step is a simple kick-snare rhythm that no longer sounds like a breakbeat

The UK acid house rave scene of 1988 created a mass MDMA-fuelled dance culture that paved the way for techno's wider acceptance

The UK garage MC role derives from Jamaican dancehall toasting and sound-system culture

The UK garage scene's commercial collapse was triggered by club bans following violence linked to So Solid-era events

The UK hardcore continuum describes the chain of stylistic mutations from jungle through 2-step to grime and dubstep

The visual system separates every scene into a figure in front of a background

The vocal effect on 'Planet Rock' is widely misidentified as a vocoder, but was actually a Lexicon PCM 41 delay

The vocoder — especially the Roland SVC-350 — was the standard voice-processing tool giving electro its robotic vocals

The word 'techno' as a genre label came from Alvin Toffler's 'techno rebels' concept and was popularized by a Detroit compilation

The word 'techno' was used in Europe and Japan for electronic music before it was associated with Detroit

Thirds and sixths are imperfect intervals because they occur in both major and minor forms, yet their simple ratios make them pleasant sounding

This up-front future-garage beat is specced at 125–135bpm with 55–65% swing

Threshold and makeup gain are the two essential compressor controls; all others refine the action

Tidal * and / operators speed up or slow down pattern steps multiplicatively

Tidal # keeps the left structure and takes the right value; |+| combines both structures and does arithmetic

Tidal combines patterns with operators; Strudel chains methods, so pasting Tidal operator syntax into Strudel throws

Tidal d1-d9, hush, solo, and mute manage multiple simultaneous patterns live

Tidal does not run in this rig; every Tidal pattern must be compiled to Strudel to be heard

Tidal evaluates a block on the editor's eval keystroke, not on file-save like the rig hot-reload

Tidal names a scale with a space-separated root — scale "c minor" — not Strudel's colon form

Tidal run and .. generate sequential integer patterns compactly

Tidal sets tempo with setcps (cycles per second); passing a raw BPM to setcps is absurdly fast

Tidal slow, fast, and hurry change pattern duration relative to the cycle