Music Technology General Revision

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Cahill invented the Telharmonium in
1898
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Leon Theremin invented the Theremin in
1920
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Ondes Martenot was invented by Maurice Marenot in
1928
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The Hamond Organ was invented in
1933
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The Mellotron was built in
1963
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Synths are made up of 4 key areas
Oscilators, Filters, Modulators and Envelops
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Analogue Synths were used widely in
The 1960s and 70s
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The Korg Trinity
Used samples of basic wave forms
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VCO
Voltage Controled Oscilator
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A Filter
Shapes the tone and sound
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VCF
Voltage Controled Filters
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An Envelope
Shapes the dynamics of the sound
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ADSR
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Releas
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Attack
How long a sound takes to reach it's maximum volume
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Decay
How long a sound takes to descend to it's Sustain Level
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Sutain
The remaining loudness when a note is held on
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Release
How long it takes for the key to go to silent after the key is released
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LFO
Low Frequnecy Oscilator
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The First synth was invented by RCA Studios
1955
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Robert Moog invented the Moog Modular
1965
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Robert Moog Created the Mini Moog
1969
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The English Company EMS invented the VCS3
1969
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The VCS3 was used extensively in
Doctor Who
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MIDI stands for
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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MIDI was introduced in
1982
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MIDI was developed by
Dave Smith while he was developing the Prophet 5 synth
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MIDI was first tansmited by
A 5 Pin Dim connector
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MIDI can send how many note messages?
128 (2 to the power of 7 in terms of binary)
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MIDI transmits
Event Messages NOT Audio Messages
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CC stands for
Control Change Messages
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CC is
used to change perametres
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General Midi is
an agreed standard between all electronic instrument designers that allows instruments to communicate with eachother
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The Axxgtari ST
First Computer with MIDI Connections
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Charlie Steinberg invented his Pro 16 MIDI sequencer in
1984
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Quantisation
helped to correct note errors (note triming or lengthing)
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General MIDI was introduced in
1991
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Roland invented the V Drum in
1997
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The V Drum allowed the player to
Choose from a Wide variety of kits using MIDI
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Sequential released the revelutionary Prophet 5 in
1978
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The Yamaha DX7 was introduced in
1983
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The Yamaha DX7 was the first synth to make use of
Frequency Modulation Synthesis (FM)
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The Yamaha CS80 was released in
1976
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The Prophet 5 was
the first synth to be able to store sound mode
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Subtractive Synthesis is essetially the process of
Cutting away sound frequencies you don't want
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The different oscilator patters include
Sine, Sawtooth, triange and square
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Additive Synth is essetially the process of
changing the oscilator pattern during a note event to change the texture
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Leon Theremin invented the Theremin in

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Ondes Martenot was invented by Maurice Marenot in

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The Hamond Organ was invented in

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The Mellotron was built in

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