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Fusing LCM-LoRA into an SD model enables 2–4 step diffusion inference without retraining the base model

Gamelan metallophones have inharmonic spectra, and their scales (pelog and slendro) are related to those spectra

Garage drum beats need light-touch bus compression because the genre depends on dynamic range

Generative composition means defining a rule-system and running it, not fixing every note

Genre labels create implicit rules that constrain what producers feel they can make within a scene

Genres pass through four stages from avant-garde to scene-based to industry-based to traditionalist

Geometry Nodes builds geometry procedurally as a node tree flowing from Group Input to Group Output

Gestural interfaces require a visible, immediate correspondence between the performer's movements and the audiovisual output

Gibber maps audio objects directly to visual properties using bias and scalar for range control

Gin's @gin.register limits side-effects by only injecting defaults when a function is used as an argument

Give each element its own ambient environment so reverbs and delays do not clash

Glicol uses the LCS algorithm to update only changed nodes when code is re-evaluated

glicol_synth is a standalone graph-based Rust audio DSP library usable outside Glicol

Glicol's JavaScript API embeds the audio engine in any browser app via CDN or NPM

Glicol's meta node allows inline Rust DSP code inside a live session

Glisson synthesis gives each grain an independent frequency trajectory (chirp)

Glitch music treats digital malfunction as critique of the myth of technological perfection

Glitch pieces strip electronic music to minimum information — atomic, anechoic, 1-3 minute durations — inverting electronica's layering ethos

Global Mute affects all patterns simultaneously while Pattern Mute affects only the active pattern

Glue a drum kit with gentle bus compression, letting the sculpted sounds lead rather than heavy-handed processing

GPU compute/ALU capacity growing faster than memory bandwidth made primitive-based SDFs increasingly competitive from 2007 onward

GPU ray tracing adds five programmable shader types to the graphics pipeline

Grain-by-grain pitch shifting produces chorus, noise, or melodic elaboration depending on grain size

GrainBuf granulates a Buffer with independently controllable trigger rate, grain duration, pitch, and position

Grainlet synthesis links any synthesis parameter to any other parameter

Grains shorter than about 50 ms transition from perceived pitch to timbre or click as duration decreases

Granular studio composition generates clouds with a synthesis tool then arranges them on a DAW timeline

Granular synthesis constructs sounds from thousands of short grains (10–100 ms) with independent parameters

Granular time-pitch changing in SuperCollider decouples playback speed from pitch by varying grain rate and position

Granulation enables independent control of pitch and duration

Group humanization plugins link multiple tracks so instruments respond to each other's timing, mimicking an ensemble

Group normalization divides channels into groups and normalizes within each group, working well with small batch sizes unlike batch normalization

Grouping harmonically related partials under a single envelope reduces the parameter count in additive synthesis

Grouping scene elements rather than distributing them uniformly prevents visual noise and creates organic set design

Hardware sequencers lack a shared protocol for jumping song sections together, so producers fake structure by muting tracks

Harmonic rhythm — the rate of chord change — is independent of surface rhythm and shapes perceived energy

Harmonically complex FM waveforms (saws, squares) generate richer inharmonic sidebands than sines for percussion

Hearing intervals in tonal context requires naming both the interval distance and each note's scale degree simultaneously

Heavy distortion on an analog audio signal creates a pseudo-square wave that CMOS digital circuits can process as a clock signal

High-level abstractions reduce cognitive load in live coding but may constrain musical affordances; some practitioners prefer lower-level control

High-passing a reverb's input keeps low frequencies out of the tail and prevents low-end mud

Higher-order granulation re-granulates already-granulated sound to spawn new mesostructures

Hip-hop and electronic sampling proliferated during a brief window when copyright enforcement lagged behind the technology

Hip-hop and industrial converged on the sampler as a shared political tool at the same historical moment

Historically, 'consonance' and 'dissonance' refer to five distinct concepts, not one unified notion

Hocket distributes a single melodic line across two or more instruments to create timbral variety and rhythmic texture

Holding FM modulation depth steady and enveloping separate spectrum bands gives more natural timbres than sweeping the index

Hood performed Minimal Nation by punching everything in live on a pocket sequencer for human feel

Hood structured Minimal Nation as a coherent narrative where each track is a chapter, not an isolated piece

Hood's production philosophy is 'pace yourself like a turtle' — momentum through endurance, not speed

House and techno's affective power draws on the Black gospel tradition of repetition and collective trance

House uses long DJ-friendly phrase forms: filtered intros, additive builds, chord/vocal breakdowns, kick+bass drops

Humanization addresses three independent axes: timing, velocity, and note duration — swing alone is insufficient

Humans localise sound using interaural time, level, and spectral cues from the pinnae

Hybrid source separation processes audio in both waveform and spectrogram domains simultaneously

Hydra can use other browser windows as live video sources via WebRTC peer-to-peer streaming

Hydra modulate functions use one source's colors to warp another source's geometry

Hydra video feedback is created by routing output into a named buffer and reading that buffer back

Hydra's loadScript() imports arbitrary JavaScript libraries (Three.js, Tone.js, p5.js) into the live editor

Hypnotic techno achieves trance by stripping arrangement to expose repetition rather than adding elements