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• About me
• Aphex Twin guide (WIP)
• BPM to milliseconds
• Circle of fifths
• Creator guide
• General MIDI Percussion Map
• IRC guide
• Pitches
• Regular expressions guide
• Roland TR MIDI map
• S1000 guide
• S1000 page map
• Transposing tempos

What's new

• V126 / Asvine
• Dieter Döpfer
• Trade paperback
• CMY Boolean colour palette
• 1982 DC colour palette

Style

• Main
• 1990s

Special thanks

• Atom Fellows
• Keibind
• Robert Korte
• Jason Scott

Thanks

• Christopher Astfalk
• Evie Blackwell
• Gigratu
• William Hern
• LCJS
• The Musings of My AuDHD Brain
• Taylor
• Tui Robot
• Elizabeth Wells

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Electronic music making

Advice

• Electronic music making essays
  Low fidelity, Professional
• Electronic music making guides
  Aphex Twin guide, Creator guide, DX21 guide, DrumStation guide, MCV-24 guide, MicroVerb III guide, S1000 guide, ST guide, Solina String Ensemble guide
• Tips
  How to add proportional reverb in Reaper, How to git diff FLAC files, How to import S1000 CDs into Kontakt and Ableton Live
• Workflows
  Music-first workflow, Quantity Over Quality, Writing without distractions

Books

• Electronic music making books
  Analog Days, The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers

Events

• Clubs
  Megadog
• Tours
  MIDI Circus, Rave New World, See the Light

General concepts

• Hip hop culture
  Breakbeat, DJ battle tool
• Music theory
  Arpeggio, Block chord, Broken chord, Circle of fifths, Interval, Linear drumming, Music, Pitched tempos, Polymetre and polyrhythm, Rest, Swing, Velocity
• Release types
  EP
• Sample rates
  8.363 kHz, 31.25 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.056 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz
• Sampling
  A cappella, Breakbeat, DJ battle tool, Multisampling, Personal sample library, Pingpong loop, Program (sampler), Sample CD, Sampling string machines
• Studio infrastructure
  DCB, Eurorack, MIDI, Tracks and channels
• Synthesis
  Beating, Cross modulation, Footing, Noise, Periodic waveform, Program (synthesiser), Pulsewidth modulation
• Synthesiser components
  Analogue step sequencer, Envelope generator, Frequency shifter, Oscillator, Sub-oscillator, VCA, VCF, VCO

Genres

• Detroit techno
  Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson

Hardware by modularity

• Hardwired synthesisers
  CZ-101, JN-80, Juno-6, Juno-60, Juno-106, MC-202, MS-1, MS-5, Minimoog, Model D, Polivoks, RS-101, RS-202, SH-5, SH-101, Solina String Ensemble, String Ensemble, TB-303, VC340, VP-330
• Modular synthesisers
  100 Series (Behringer), 300 Series (Wiard), 900 Series (Behringer), 900 Series (Moog), 900 Series (Synth-Werk), A-100, Concussor, System-100M
• Semi-modular synthesisers
  2600, Diode-01, K-2, MS-10, MS-20, System-100, VCS3

Hardware by polyphony

• Monophonic synthesisers
  MC-202, MS-1, MS-5, Minimoog, Model D, SH-5, SH-101, TB-303
• Duophonic synthesisers
  2600, Polivoks
• Paraphonic synthesisers
  RS-101, RS-202, Sampling string machines, Solina String Ensemble, String Ensemble, VC340, VP-330
• Polyphonic synthesisers
  JN-80, Juno-6, Juno-60, Juno-106

Hardware by type

• Analogue step sequencers
  100 Series (Behringer), 900 Series (Behringer), A-100, Sequencer Complement, System-100, System-100M
• Controller keyboards
  900 Series (Moog), System-100M, microKEY
• Digital sequencers
  MC-4, MC-8, The Digital Sequencer
• Digital step sequencers
  CR-78, MC-202, MS-1, RD-6, RE-808, SH-101, Stepper Acid, TB-303, TR-606, TR-808
• Drum machines
  CR-78, R-8, RD-6, RE-808, TR-606, TR-808, TR-909
• Drum synthesisers
  Concussor, DrumStation, Syncussion-1
• Effects
  DynaMike, MicroVerb III, Micro Rack Series, QuadraVerb, RV-1000, VT-1
• FM synthesisers
  DX7, DX21, TX81Z
• Hardware MIDI sequencers
  ASQ10, CZ-101, Studio 440, TR-909, W-30
• Hardware speech synthesisers
  Language Translator, Speak & Spell
• MIDI to CV converters
  MCV-24, MPU-101
• Mixers
  RX1602
• Modifications
  Devil Fish
• Multitrack recorders
  ADAT, ADAT HD24, DA-88
• PD synthesisers
  CZ-101
• Recording playback keyboards
  Orchestron
• Romplers
  Carnaval, JV-1080, Orbit 9090, Planet Phatt, R-8, U-110, Vintage Keys
• Samplers
  FZ-1, S612, S900, S950, S1000, S1100, Studio 440, W-30
• Sampling workstations
  Studio 440, W-30
• Speakers
  NS-10M
• Stereo recorders
  DA-1, HD-S1, PCM-F1, R-09
• String machines
  RS-101, RS-202, Solina String Ensemble, String Ensemble, VC340, VP-330
• Synchronisers
  PPS-2
• Vocoders
  VC340, VP-330

Manufacturers

• ARP
  2600, String Ensemble
• Aiwa
  HD-S1
• Akai
  ASQ10, S612, S900, S950, S1000, S1100
• Alesis
  ADAT, ADAT HD24, MicroVerb III, MicroVerb III guide, QuadraVerb
• Analogue Solutions
  Concussor
• Bandai
  DynaMike
• Behringer
  100 Series (Behringer), 900 Series (Behringer), ADA8200, Behringer RD MIDI map, JN-80, K-2, MS-1, MS-5, Model D, RD-6, RX1602, Solina String Ensemble, VC340
• Boss
  Micro Rack Series, RV-1000, VT-1
• Casio
  CZ-101, Casio watches, DA-1, FZ-1, G-Shock
• Doepfer
  A-100, Dieter Döpfer, MCV-24, MCV-24 guide
• Edirol
  R-09
• EMS
  VCS3
• Korg
  MS-10, MS-20, microKEY
• Moog
  900 Series (Moog), Bob Moog, Minimoog
• Novation
  DrumStation, DrumStation MIDI map, DrumStation guide
• Pearl
  Syncussion-1
• Roland
  Boss, CR-78, DCB, Edirol, JV-1080, Juno-6, Juno-60, Juno-106, MC-4, MC-8, MC-202, MPU-101, R-8, RS-101, RS-202, Roland TR MIDI map, SH-5, SH-101, SN-R8 series, SN-U110 series, SO-PCM1 series, SR-JV80 series, System-100, System-100M, TB-303, TR-606, TR-808, TR-909, U-110, VP-330, W-30
• Sequential Circuits
  Studio 440
• Solina
  String Ensemble
• Sony
  CD, DAT, MiniDisc, NW-A45 guide, PCM-F1
• Synth-Werk
  900 Series (Synth-Werk)
• Texas Instruments
  Language Translator, Speak & Spell
• Vako
  Orchestron
• Wiard
  300 Series (Wiard)
• Yamaha
  DX7, DX21, DX21 guide, NS-10M, TX81Z

Platforms

• Atari ST
  4-Op Deluxe, Creator, Cubase, Dump-It!, M, Pro-24, Realtime, ST MIDI sequencer timeline, ST Speech, Sweet Sixteen, Tiger Cub
• Commodore 64
  1530, 1541, 1581, Pro-16
• DOS
  FreeDOS, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
• ZX Spectrum
  Music Machine, Soviet ZX Spectrum clones, ZX Spectrum 128

Software by type

• DAWs
  Reaper
• Editors/librarians
  4-Op Deluxe, Dump-It!
• Software MIDI sequencers
  Creator, Cubase, M, Music Machine, Pro-16, Pro-24, Realtime, Sweet Sixteen, Tiger Cub
• Software speech synthesisers
  ST Speech
• Trackers
  Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3

Soundware

• Expansion boards
  SR-JV80 series
• PCM cards
  SN-R8 series, SN-U110 series, SO-PCM1 series
• Sample CDs
  Datafiles, Peter Siedleczek's Advanced Orchestra

Studio infrastructure

• MIDI
  DAW, Editor/librarian, General MIDI Percussion Map, MIDI clock, MIDI sequencer, MIDI timing, ST MIDI sequencer timeline, Song position pointer, SysEx file
• Signal routing
  Cinch-Jones connector, Jack normalling, Phone jack, Pin matrix
• Synchronisation
  DIN sync, MIDI clock, Tape sync

Tables

• Electronic music making tables
  BPM to milliseconds, DX21 guide, Interval, MicroVerb III guide, Pitched tempos, Pitches, S1000 page map, ST MIDI sequencer timeline, Transposing tempos

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