Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Terminology 101

One of the biggest hurdles to setting up your own home recording environment is the terminology. You might know how to write a song, play a dozen instruments, but you freeze up when you see messages on the boards like: "My system's latency is causing my DAW to choke on the VSTi's piano roll." Huh?

To help set a baseline, I've started this terminology list. Each term will have its own posting, with this as the master index. (Yes, it's sparse now, but this list will grow with time.)

ASIO
Automation
Arm
DAW
Digital Audio Workstation
Latency
MIDI
Piano Roll
VST
VSTi


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