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Attack and release times on a sidechain compressor shape the ducked signal's envelope

Audacity's Nyquist prompt lets you write Lisp code to synthesise, analyse, and process audio

Audio can drive emphasis in a composition but cannot move focus on the beat in the current rig

Audio feedback transforms a playback system into a noise-generating instrument

Audio-reactive texture intensity (band amplitude to grain/warp) is realizable now; onset-triggered glitch bursts are not possible in this rig

Audio-reactive visuals extract DSP data from audio and map it to visual parameters

Audio-visual coherence requires agreement on energy, spectral balance, and section — reactive motion alone does not guarantee it

Augmented intervals are one semitone wider than perfect/major; diminished intervals are one semitone narrower than perfect/minor

Automate processing parameters, not just faders, as arrangement sections change

Automating filter cutoff over time is the fundamental build and breakdown gesture across electronic genres

AV mapping transfer functions are almost always affine (linear) or squared-exponential — linear for continuous motion, exp for onset-ish pop

Avoid repeating the same element more than three times in a row without variation

Balanced connections use two out-of-phase signal conductors to reject common-mode noise

Baltimore club's kick hits beats 1-2-3, lands just after beat 4, and adds a pre-downbeat 'Thump'

Band-limited oscillators generate only the harmonics that stay below Nyquist to avoid aliasing

Baroque fugue applies deterministic transformations (stretto, inversion, augmentation, diminution, retrograde) that map directly onto code operations

Basic Channel's Rhythm & Sound and Burial Mix are a rare two-way exchange between European electronic music and Caribbean dub

Bass instruments usually need added top end to cut through and reach small speakers

Bass should drive large, slow visual elements and highs should drive fine, fast detail for maximum AV coherence

Beat alignment means any integral beat value on one Link participant maps to an integral beat on all others

Beat detection via amplitude threshold fires a visual event when RMS crosses a set level

beat_stretch: maps a sample to a specified beat count at the current BPM

Before MIDI, electro producers synced drum machines and sequencers using clock/trigger pulses and Roland Sync cables

beginShape/endShape with vertex() and bezierVertex() builds arbitrary polygons and smooth curves in p5.js

Being sampled can revive the career of the original artist by reintroducing their catalog to new audiences

Bela is an embedded platform achieving sub-millisecond action-sound latency by running audio at the hardware interrupt level

Bela reads analog sensors synchronously with the audio block, removing the polling lag of slow microcontrollers

Below ~200ms, auditory perception switches into a different mode

Berlin techno and the Love Parade framed the post-Wall dance floor as a liberation ritual for a reunifying Germany

Berlin techno parties enacted 'dancefloor socialism': DJ not centred, crowd immersed, hierarchy dissolved

Berlin's Tresor club created a Berlin-Detroit 'mutual admiration pact,' reviving Detroit careers and making Berlin techno's second centre

Big beat uses heavily compressed, loud breakbeats as a defining sonic element, not just a backing groove

Big beat's production formula was: breakbeat + funk samples + vocal snippet + synth line + rocker aggression

Bitcrushing reduces bit depth or sample rate for digital lo-fi grit, distinct from analog saturation

Bitwig runs a linear Arranger and a non-linear Clip Launcher together, so improvisation and fixed arrangement share one session

Bitwig's Unified Modulation System lets any modulator device control any parameter at every level of the signal chain

Bjorklund's pulse-distribution algorithm has the same structure as the Euclidean algorithm

Blend reverb gives separately overdubbed tracks the shared acoustic glue that close-miked recording lacks

Blending a Hydra shape with its own output and then repeating it yields self-similar fractal structure

blendMode() controls how overlapping layers combine in p5.js (e.g. LIGHTEST keeps the brighter pixel)

Bossa clave adds one extra syncopation to son clave by shifting the final hit off-beat

Bottom-up mixing builds per-track detail before buss processing; top-down mixing shapes busses first for faster setup

Breakcore producers reconstitute classical or other source material through Amen break evisceration

Breakcore's defining drum technique is Amen break manipulation at extreme BPM

Breaking similarity creates a visual accent that pulls the eye to one element

Brick-wall limiters use look-ahead to guarantee no digital overs by anticipating peaks before they arrive

Brostep replaced dubstep's sub-bass emphasis with distorted mid-range riffs as venues grew larger

Buchla complex oscillators pair a modulation oscillator with a principal oscillator to produce timbres unavailable from single-oscillator designs

Buchla explored hybrid analog/digital and software-controlled systems from the mid-1970s before the 200e

Buchla replaced the piano keyboard with touch-sensitive voltage sources that output CV, pulse, and pressure

Build a DAWless rig incrementally — master one instrument, then add whatever it most lacks

Build the mix in stages, adding instruments in order of sonic importance

Building a mix by adding tracks in descending order of importance reduces processing artifacts on the most critical sounds

Building the mix groove in frequency order from pulse to detail locks rhythm tightly before adding texture

Buildup, breakdown, and drop create formal structure in electronic music through textural density rather than sectional contrast

By the early 2000s 'minimal' named a German-popularized techno style tied to Kompakt, Perlon and Hawtin's M-nus

Cable shielding intercepts electrostatic interference; balanced twisted pairs cancel electromagnetic interference

Calling .play on a Pbind returns an EventStreamPlayer, and only that stored player can be stopped or resumed

Car-audio bass strips Miami bass to bare sub-frequencies: hard 909/808 kicks plus sine waves

cat plays patterns one per cycle, seq crams them into one cycle, stack plays them together