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Estuary terminal commands add custom sample banks to an ensemble session

Estuary's Metre widget visualises cycle subdivisions and Euclidean/Bjorklund patterns against the live tempo

Ethical field recording of indigenous communities requires giving tangible benefit back to the source

Euclidean rhythms are exactly the maximally even rhythms — those maximizing pairwise inter-onset distance on the circle of time

Every evaluation heuristic is either a static [NOW] check or a [L3] check blocked on a perception bridge that does not yet exist

Exact SDFs give the true Euclidean distance; approximate SDFs are safe lower bounds but force smaller marching steps

Exaggeration pushes an action beyond the literal while staying true to reality

Exotic scales (Neapolitan, Middle Eastern, Hungarian, whole tone) extend the palette beyond major/minor

Experienced mixers hear the finished product in their heads before touching a fader

Exploring without a goal unlocks creative directions that task-oriented work closes off

Exponential Moving Average of weights produces smoother RAVE models by averaging checkpoints over time

Exposing a WebSockets and OSC interface lets any UI — web page, hardware controller, script — control an audio plugin at runtime

Extended chords stack successive thirds above the seventh, and the thirteenth uses all seven scale degrees

Extended techniques on acoustic instruments produce hybrid timbres unavailable through synthesis

Extending map() to return a vec4 provides auxiliary channels for UV coordinates, occlusion, and per-material signals

Extending stem separation to guitar and piano is harder than the standard four-stem split

Extracting a formal skeleton from an admired track provides an arrangement blueprint that avoids direct copying

Extreme cold degrades cables and microphone capsules before electronic circuits fail

Fader automation adds mix dynamics by riding individual elements — what a live band does naturally must be recreated deliberately in the DAW

Fake subsurface scattering brightens silhouettes using the Fresnel term tinted by a flesh color

fastcat and cat concatenate patterns in series, differing only in whether they compress to one cycle

Feature matching loss in RAVE aligns intermediate discriminator activations between real and generated audio

Feeding a MATHS output back into its own CV input breaks the linear response, giving shapes Vari-Response cannot

Feeding an analog video signal into an audio amplifier makes a fixed-pitch drone whose overtones encode the image

Feeding the previous frame back with an FFT-driven amount makes visual trails grow with the audio build

Field-recording performance works as a 'sound polaroid' and 'invisible map' that snaps listeners into their environment

Fill mode temporarily activates FILL-conditional trigs for a pattern variation

Filling the entire arrangement with material first, then subtracting, avoids the blank-canvas problem

filterHaps tests the whole Hap (with timing) while filterValues tests only the value

Filters not only attenuate but phase-shift a waveform's individual harmonics, distorting its shape

Finishing a track means arranging its looping parts into sections and bouncing the multitrack down to a two-track mix

Finishing one element to release quality before adding the next builds the skill of completion

First-wave Detroit techno came from the suburban Black middle class, carrying a class tension into its aesthetics

Fixture Remapping reassigns an existing project's channels to different fixtures in minutes

FM and PM produce identical output at high sample rates; PM is preferred for digital implementation

FM between two detuned oscillators produces inharmonic noise suitable for hi-hats and cymbals

FM brass timbres use c/m = 1/1 with index tracking amplitude, capturing the loudness-to-brightness coupling of brass instruments

FM percussive sounds use inharmonic c/m ratios with index decaying from dense to sparse spectrum

FM sideband amplitudes are set by Bessel functions of the first kind indexed by sideband order and modulation index

FM sidebands that fall below 0 Hz reflect into the positive spectrum with a phase inversion

FM woodwind timbres use a higher carrier harmonic and inverse index-amplitude coupling, causing higher harmonics to lead the attack

FOA transformations warp the whole B-format soundfield and are not commutative

FoaPanB encodes a mono signal to FOA B-format with a dynamically modulatable azimuth and elevation

Focusrite Scarlett XLR inputs cannot take line-level signals; line sources must use the combo TRS input instead

FOF synthesis generates formant spectra from streams of grain bursts

Footwork producers treat any genre as valid input as long as the footwork rhythmic grid and bass drive the track

Footwork producers typically build a track by cutting up samples first and working the beat around them, at very high output rates

Footwork spread to Latin America in the late 2010s, with Mexico's JukeMX blending it with Latin percussion and baile funk

Footwork's signature emerged from removing the bass kicks and replacing claps with snares and hi-hats

For time-based arts, the most useful definition of 'declarative' is closeness of mapping between notation and target domain

Fractals are shapes that exhibit self-similar structure across multiple scales

Fractional Brownian Motion adds correlated memory to white noise integration, controlled by the Hurst exponent H

Frame differencing detects motion by comparing pixel values between consecutive video frames

Framing sound design in signal-flow terms makes it transfer across synths regardless of a synth's UI

Freesound's API supports content-based search filtering by automatically extracted audio descriptors

French house splits into a space-disco strand, a Euro-disco-update strand, and a deep-American-house strand

Frequencies softmax maps network logits to Hz by weighting a log-spaced frequency grid

Frequency masking between competing instruments is best resolved by ear with manual fader automation rather than by keyed processing alone

Frequency shifting adds a fixed Hz offset to every partial, breaking harmonic ratios into inharmonic spectra

From-scratch live coding starts from an empty editor and builds the whole piece live before an audience