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Flipping polarity or time-shifting one mic in a multimiked recording is a free tonal adjustment

Floating-point DAW mixing gives effectively unlimited headroom, so channel overloads don't distort

Flok enables multiple live coders to share and edit a single browser interface in real time

Fluent balancing builds each track once, processing only until its fader is stable

FM bandwidth grows with modulation index, so raising the index brightens the sound

FM generates rich spectra with just two oscillator lookups, making it computationally viable for 1980s digital chips

FM modulation of a drum oscillator adds irregular attack-phase texture without noise

FM modulator ratio (not offset) controls Reese wobble speed consistently across all pitches

FM produces a harmonic spectrum only when the carrier-to-modulator frequency ratio is rational and small

FM side bands lie at Carrier ± n×Modulator, an in-principle infinite series set only by the Modulator's frequency

FM side bands need not be harmonically related to the Carrier, so FM can make inharmonic (bell, metallic) tones

FM sidebands are spaced by the modulator frequency on either side of the carrier frequency

FM synthesis builds complex spectra by using one oscillator's frequency to modulate another's

FM synthesis modulates a carrier's instantaneous frequency using a modulator oscillator, requiring phase integration

FM synthesis varies one oscillator's frequency with another to produce complex sidebands

FM synthesis with integer modulator-to-carrier ratios produces harmonic tones; non-integer ratios produce inharmonic metallic tones

FM total bandwidth is approximately twice the sum of frequency deviation and modulating frequency

FM velocity sensitivity routes key-strike force to modulator amplitude, creating touch-sensitive brightness

Folding or repeating UV coordinates multiplies SDF shapes without extra draw calls

Follow-through means secondary parts of an object continue moving after the main body stops

Footwork emerged when West Side Chicago DJs began playing 33 RPM ghetto house records at 45 RPM, accelerating the groove

Footwork is a sample-based, high-volume workflow rooted in community sample knowledge and SoundCloud feedback

Footwork producers favor the hardware MPC over software for its analog outputs, tight timing, and tactile feel

Footwork spread in Chicago through peer-to-peer mixtape exchange in public schools, making early works hard to obtain

Footwork's founding canon was made by RP Boo, DJ Rashad, and DJ Clent, who formed the Beatdown House crew in 1998

Footwork's producers were dancers first, and that dance background directly shaped the music's rhythmic priorities

Footwork's rhythmic signature is beat-skipping syncopated kicks at ~160 BPM that alternate full-time and half-time sections

fork schedules time-ordered Pbind launches using .wait calls inside a Routine running on a TempoClock

FoxDot and its fork Renardo live-code music in Python using SuperCollider as the audio engine

Fractal visuals have two build routes: domain repetition with raymarching for 3D lattices, or feedback zoom for a cheap 2D self-similar tunnel

frameCount % width produces seamlessly looping horizontal motion in p5.js

Frankfurt defined 'techno' as EBM/electronic music while Berlin defined it as Detroit-influenced dance music — and the Berlin definition won

Freesound API enforces per-minute and per-day rate limits that are stricter for write operations

Freesound interprets CC licenses for AI training as requiring dataset disclosure for BY sounds and barring commercial use for BY-NC sounds

Freesound previews are unified-format no-auth downloads while original files need OAuth2

Freesound's APIv2 lets you filter sounds by perceptual qualities like brightness, hardness and depth — not just text

Freesound's content-based similarity search returns sounds that are acoustically alike, not just similarly tagged

Freesound's per-uploader AI training preference is a transparency signal, not a legal restriction

French house synthesizes American P-Funk, European space disco, and Chicago house jacking into a single aesthetic

Frenchcore broadened from strict 4/4 into 3/4, 5/8 and pitched-kick harmonic forms since the mid-2010s

Frenchcore developed from French hardcore scenes as a faster style with a rolling offbeat distorted bass

Frenchcore performance shifted from vinyl soundsystem DJing to commercial sets with added live instruments

Frequency juggling means giving each instrument its own predominant frequency range so nothing fights

Frequency modulation drives a carrier oscillator's frequency with a modulator, generating sidebands at C±kM

Frequency response is measured within a stated tolerance window, not a single curve

Frequency-selective dynamics act on one frequency band only when that band exceeds threshold

From-scratch live coding starts with a blank file; prepared-set coding edits pre-written code — each suits different contexts

Full-frequency mixing balances two tracks with volume faders alone, avoiding EQ cuts and swaps

Functional ear training trains hearing notes by their role in a key, not just their distance from each other

Future garage takes UK garage's off-kilter 2-step rhythm and adds pitched vocal chops, warm reese bass, and dark atmospheres

Gabber continually escalated in hardness and tempo, dating tracks within months

Gabber labels and artists explicitly organised against racism and fascism within the scene

gain() controls amplitude and can be patterned to create dynamic accent patterns within a rhythm

Gamelan colotomic structures divide the gong cycle with hierarchical punctuation instruments to give pieces their formal identity

Gamelan music uses polyphonic stratification: distinct melodic-rhythmic layers each maintaining independent character

Gamma correction must be applied from the start of shader development, not added at the end

GAS layers dense classical-sampled drone over a muted four-on-the-floor kick, sitting between ambient and techno

Gated reverb cuts the snare reverb tail abruptly for the signature 80s drum sound

Gated reverb with increased pre-delay gives a drum hit a large-then-truncated ambience

Generative Design organises its p5.js sketches as Principles (P) then Methods (M) then Applications (A)