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DDSP's Reverb processor can use either a predicted or a single learned impulse response for convolution

De-essers implement sibilance reduction in different ways, so audition alternatives

Deconstructing a shape into steps enables naturalistic variance at each step

Deep house and tech-house are opposite ends of a harmonic-density spectrum within house

Deep house slows the tempo and fuses house with jazz and funk, pioneered by Larry Heard in 1985

define :name do ... end creates reusable code blocks that persist and can be redefined between runs

Deforum keyframe schedules interpolate parameter values linearly between defined frame:value pairs

Deforum motion operators apply per-frame and accumulate, so small values compound into large movement over an animation

Deforum parameters are scoped to an animation mode — a parameter effective in one mode has no effect in another

Deforum's strength_schedule sets how much the previous frame constrains the next and also fixes the effective step count

Degradation textures (grain, scanlines, chromatic-aberration, dither) place a piece in a glitch/retro-crt/vaporwave idiom; clean noise/voronoi signals organic

degrade and degradeBy randomly drop events from a pattern with a given probability

degradeBy removes events by probability; sometimesBy applies a function by probability

Delay and comb UGens allocate memory dynamically; increase s.options.memSize to avoid allocation failures

delay() adds echo repeats, with optional arguments for echo time and feedback

Delaying a body's animation signal by a small time offset gives secondary parts inertial lag

Delaying a clock trigger by an eighth note places an extra hat on the off-beat without a separate sequence

DelayL creates a one-shot delay; CombL adds feedback to produce echoes with controllable decay time

Dem bow pairs a four-on-the-floor kick with a tresillo-shaped snare to drive reggaeton

Demucs automatically rescales output stems to prevent clipping but this breaks relative stem loudness

Demucs separates any audio file from the command line with a single command

Demucs ships multiple model variants trading speed, quality, size, and stem count

Denoise strength below 1.0 in KSampler enables image-to-image sampling

Depth is implied by overlap, scale, parallax, atmospheric fade, and blur-soften on layers

Detailed level rides on individual notes and syllables beat any static fader

Detroit techno drew from Kraftwerk, P-Funk, Giorgio Moroder, disco, and Chicago house as its primary musical lineages

Detroit techno kicks are saturated then compressed for punch and edge without heavy distortion

Detroit techno was celebrated as high art in Europe while its creators remained largely anonymous in their home city

Detroit techno's defining trait is working the interface of funk and futurism together

Detroit techno's founding producers each launched their own record labels to maintain creative and commercial control over their music

Diatonic triads built on each scale degree provide a closed system of chords that generate functional progressions

Difference blend mode subtracts layers and takes the absolute value, making matching areas black and differing areas bright

Different electronic genres use characteristic swing percentages that define their feel

Diffuse (Lambertian) brightness is the clamped dot product of the surface normal and the light direction

Diffuse path tracing recurses on random scatter directions until a depth limit terminates the chain

Diffusion inference iteratively removes predicted noise from a latent tensor until an image emerges

Digital audio sample rate does not limit time resolution — dithered audio has effectively unlimited time resolution

Digital audio samples can represent waveforms whose continuous analog output exceeds 0 dBFS between samples

Digital clipping occurs when amplitude exceeds ±1, truncating the waveform and causing distortion

Digital sampling lets producers cut, loop, and re-order individual break hits into wholly new patterns

Digital sound synthesis chains unit generators — oscillators, envelopes, effects — in signal processing networks

Diminished triads (3+3 semitones) and augmented triads (4+4 semitones) are the two unstable triad types outside major and minor

Displacement-map is static structural coordinate offset; modulation-warp is its animated cousin driving continuous motion

Displacing an SDF's input coordinate before evaluation deforms the shape by any function

Dissolve blend mode creates a grainy stochastic transition by randomly sampling pixels from each layer based on opacity

Distortion adds harmonics to a bass signal, making it audible on small speakers that cannot reproduce low frequencies

Distortion adds new upper harmonics that EQ cannot create when a sound is too thin

Dither converts correlated quantization distortion into uncorrelated white noise, making it perceptually benign

Dither must be applied only once, at the very end of the mastering chain, when reducing word length

Diva house is characterised by powerful gospel-infused female vocals at gay clubs in the 1990s

Divide blend mode divides the base by the top layer, so a darker top brightens the base and any colour over black becomes white

DJ EQ comes in two models: full kill (silences the band completely) and shaping (attenuates but never silences)

DMX Dump captures a live DMX snapshot into a new or existing Scene for immediate reuse

DnB bass stacks a sine wave sub with harmonics above the fundamental for low-end fullness

DnB creates a two-speed illusion: fast drums at ~174 BPM over a half-time-feel bass at ~87 BPM

DnB drums combine processed breakbeats with engineered hits emphasizing tight snappy transients

DnB splits the bass into a mono sub-bass and a mid-frequency reese-bass occupying different bands

DnB sub-bass is a synthesised or sampled deep pattern felt physically through powerful sound systems, not just heard

DnB subgenres split into 'light' and 'heavy' poles, with ambient/jazz on one end and industrial/sci-fi on the other

Dodge modes lighten and burn modes darken as mirror images: dodging equals burning the negative