Glossary¶
- a2jmidid
a2jmidid is an application that bridges between the system MIDI ports and JACK.
- AU
A proprietary plugin standard, mainly used on MacOS. We recommend using LV2 instead.
- Balance
Balance (or Stereo balance) is the left-right balance of a stereo audio signal.
- Bounce
Bouncing means exporting to audio.
- CLI
CLI is the interface users interact with when typing commands in a terminal.
- Clip
Used interchangeably with region.
- Control
A control is a port with a user-changeable control value that affects a processor, such as a plugin. For example, a gain control. Used interchangeably with Parameter.
- CV
In a software environment, CV represents audio-rate control data.
- DAW
A DAW is software used to compose, record, edit, arrange, mix and master music.
- DSP
In the context of a DAW, DSP means audio signal processing.
- Free software
Free/libre software means users control the program, as opposed to proprietary software, where the program controls the users.
- JACK
JACK is a sound server that offers low latency for users and provides a simple API for developers. It is the de facto standard sound server for professional audio on GNU/Linux.
- LV2
LV2 is an extensible, cross-platform open standard for audio plugins. LV2 has a simple core interface, which is accompanied by extensions that add more advanced functionality.
- MIDI
MIDI is a technical standard for communication between musical instruments and computers.
- MIDI note
MIDI Notes are used to trigger virtual (or hardware) instruments.
- Mono
A single-channel audio signal (see also Stereo).
- Pan law
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- Panning
Panning is the distribution of a Mono signal into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field.
- Parameter
Used interchangeably with Control.
- Plugin
A plugin is an external module that provides audio processing capabilities to Zrythm, such as an SFZ instrument or an LV2 reverb plugin.
- المشروع
A project refers to a work session. It is saved as a directory containing a project file along with other auxiliary files. See Projects for more details.
- Range
A Range is a selection of time between two positions.
- Region
A region (or Clip) is a container for MIDI Notes, audio or other events. See Regions.
- SFZ
SFZ is a file format for sample-based virtual instruments.
- SF2
SF2 is the successor of SFZ.
- Stereo
A two-channel audio signal (left and right) (see also Mono).
- VST2
A proprietary plugin standard and the predecessor of VST3. We do not recommend using this standard.
- VST3
VST3 is a plugin standard that supersedes VST2. It is better to use VST3 than VST2, because it is released as Free software. However, we recommend using the LV2 standard instead.
- Zrythm user path
The path where Zrythm will save user data, such as projects, temporary files, presets and exported audio. The default is
zrythm
underXDG_DATA_HOME
(see the XDG Base Directory Specification) on freedesktop-compliant systems (or ifXDG_DATA_HOME
is defined), orthe directory for local application data on Windows