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Electronic music making
Advice
- Electronic music making essays
Fidelity, Workflow - Electronic music making guides
Akai S1000 guide, Aphex Twin guide, Atari ST guide, C-LAB Creator guide, Doepfer MCV-24 guide, Novation DrumStation guide, Yamaha DX21 guide - Scripts
Wavesplit - Tips
How to add proportional reverb in Reaper, How to git diff FLAC files, How to import Akai S1000 CDs into Kontakt and Ableton Live - Workflows
Quantity Over Quality
Books
- Electronic music making books
Analog Days, The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers
Companies
- Equipment manufacturers
Akai, Behringer, Casio, Korg, Roland, Texas Instruments, Yamaha - Record labels
Warp Records
Components
- Microprocessors
Motorola 68000, NEC μPD650, NEC μPD780, NEC μPD8048, NEC μPD8080, NEC V50 - RAM
NEC μPD444
Formats
- Audio coding formats
MP3 - Audio storage formats
CD, Cassette tape, DAT, MiniDisc - Data storage formats
CD, Cassette tape, DAT, Floppy disk, MiniDisc
General concepts
- Electronic components
Microprocessor - Hip hop culture
Breakbeat, DJ battle tool - MIDI
Atari ST MIDI sequencer timeline, Digital audio workstation, Editor/librarian, MIDI, MIDI clock, MIDI sequencer, MIDI timing, Song position pointer, SysEx file - Music theory
Circle of fifths, Music, Music theory, Pitched tempos, Swing, Velocity - Polyphony
Paraphony - Sample rates
8.363 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.056 kHz, 44.1 kHz - Sampling
A cappella, Breakbeat, DJ battle tool, Sample CD - Sequencer types
Analogue step sequencer, Digital audio workstation, Digital sequencer, Digital step sequencer, MIDI sequencer - Studio infrastructure
ACSI, CV/gate, DIN sync, Eurorack, MIDI, SCSI, Tape sync, Tracks and channels - Synthesis
Envelope generator, Noise, Oscillator, Program (synthesiser), Pulsewidth modulation, Sub-oscillator - Types of hardware
Drum machine, Drum synthesiser, Hardwired synthesiser, Home computer, Modular synthesiser, Rompler, Sampler, Semi-modular synthesiser - Types of software
Digital audio workstation, Editor/librarian, MIDI sequencer, Tracker - Types of synthesis
FM synthesis
Hardware
- Analogue step sequencers
Moog Sequencer Complement - Digital sequencers
Roland MC-4, Roland MC-8 - Digital step sequencers
Behringer RD-6, Roland TB-303, Roland TR-606, Roland TR-808 - Drum machines
Behringer RD-6, Roland R-8, Roland TR-606, Roland TR-808, Roland TR-909 - Drum synthesisers
Novation DrumStation, Pearl Syncussion-1, Roland R-8 - Effects
Alesis QuadraVerb, Bandai DynaMike, Boss Micro Studio Series - FM synthesisers
Yamaha DX7, Yamaha DX21, Yamaha TX81Z - Hardware MIDI sequencers
Casio CZ-101, Roland TR-909, Roland W-30, Sequential Circuits Studio 440 - Hardware speech synthesisers
TI Language Translator, TI Speak & Spell - Home computers
Atari ST - MIDI to CV converters
Doepfer MCV-24 - Modular synthesisers
Behringer 100 Series, Behringer 900 Series, Doepfer A-100, Moog 900 Series, Roland System-100M - Monophonic synthesisers
Roland TB-303 - Multitrack recorders
Alesis ADAT, Alesis ADAT HD24 - PD synthesisers
Casio CZ-101 - Polyphonic synthesisers
Roland Juno-106 - Recording playback keyboards
Vako Orchestron - Romplers
E-mu Carnaval, E-mu Orbit 9090, E-mu Planet Phatt, E-mu Vintage Keys, Roland R-8, Roland U-110 - Samplers
Akai S612, Akai S900, Akai S950, Akai S1000, Akai S1100, Casio FZ-1, Roland W-30, Sequential Circuits Studio 440 - Semi-modular synthesisers
Behringer K-2, EMS VCS3, Korg MS-20, Roland System-100 - Speakers
Yamaha NS-10M - Stereo recorders
Aiwa HD-S1, Casio DA-1, Edirol R-09, Sony PCM-F1 - String machines
Behringer VC340, Roland VP-330 - Synchronisers
JL Cooper PPS-2 - Vocoders
Behringer VC340, Roland VP-330
People
- Artists
Aphex Twin, Autechre, Derrick May, Fatboy Slim, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, LFO, Man Machine, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Orbital, Richie Hawtin, The Future Sound of London, The Prodigy, Wendy Carlos, William Orbit - Engineers
Harald Bode
Software by platform
- Atari 520ST software
Caged Artist 4-Op Deluxe, Intelligent Music M, Intelligent Music Realtime, Roni Music Sweet Sixteen, ST Speech, Steinberg Pro-24 - Atari 1040ST software
C-LAB Creator, Dr. T's Tiger Cub, Steinberg Cubase - Commodore 64 software
Steinberg Pro-16 - DOS software
Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
Software by type
- Editors/librarians
Caged Artist 4-Op Deluxe - Software MIDI sequencers
C-LAB Creator, Dr. T's Tiger Cub, Intelligent Music M, Intelligent Music Realtime, Roni Music Sweet Sixteen, Steinberg Cubase, Steinberg Pro-16, Steinberg Pro-24 - Software speech synthesisers
ST Speech - Trackers
Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
Soundware
Appendices
- Electronic music making appendices
Akai S1000 page map, Atari ST MIDI sequencer timeline, Pitches
Filmmaking
- Filmmaking equipment
Meike MFT cine lenses - Filmmaking essays
A brief history of 35 mm movie aspect ratios in the US, Fidelity
Misc
- Lego
Lego - Misc
Beige PCs, Casio watches, Manga Video - Misc essays
Hypertext - Misc guides
IRC guide, Regular expressions guide, Sony NW-A45 guide
Sociology
Autism and allism
- Allistic hypotheses
Common sense - Am I autistic?
Autistic and allistic traits, Autistic imposter syndrome, If I'm autistic, why don't I stim?, Online autism tests - Autism and allism
Arithmomania - Autistic paradigms and terminology
Antonym, Asperger syndrome, The autism spectrum, The pathology paradigm - Communication
Body language, Communication, Implicature, Pragmatics, Saving face, Socialisation - Senses
Alexithymia, Auditory processing disorder, Interoceptive hyposensitivity - Stimming
If I'm autistic, why don't I stim?, Stims
Gender
- Gender paradigms and terminology
Antonym, The pathology paradigm
I've made a traceable rack template for sketching out studio setups, both 19" rackmount generally and Eurorack subracks specifically.