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What is Sound? |
Vibration of particles in the air. |
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What type of wave is a sound wave? |
longitudinal |
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How does sound travel? |
sound vibrations are compressions and rarefactions of the air that travels in all directions |
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What are formants? |
formants are resonances created by whatever generates sound |
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What are resonances? |
Resonances shape the timbre of the sound once is has been generated by the formant |
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What is attack-release envelope? |
This is a description of a sound that has fast attack and short sustain of a note |
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What is phase cancellation? |
phase cancellation is when two waveforms of the same frequency are 180 degrees out of phase |
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What is the overtone series? |
Overtones are the frequencies above the fundamental |
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What is the fundamental frequency? |
a wave more complex than a sine wave that contains the frequency heard as the note's pitch |
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What is equal temperament? |
equal temperament is a tuning method that makes the ratio between each semitone exactly the same, making each interval except the octave slightly wrong |
