Glossary — cheat sheet
Every .track word, in plain meaning and its real technical term. Each links back to the
lesson that explains it.
.track word | Plain meaning | Real term | Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|
bpm | song speed | tempo | 4 |
beats / steps | beats per bar / boxes per bar | meter / grid resolution | 4 |
swing | bouncy, lazy feel | shuffle/swing | 4 |
humanize | less robotic | humanization | 4 |
o x X | soft / normal / loud | velocity / dynamics | 5 |
scale + numbers | note family + note-by-number | scale + scale degrees | 3 |
saw/square/sine/triangle | sound “colors” | waveforms | 6 |
attack decay sustain release | a note’s volume life-story | ADSR envelope | 7 |
cutoff / resonance | brightness / emphasis | filter controls | 8 |
unison / detune | fat, wide sound | detuned stacking | 9 |
sub | deep low end | sub-oscillator | 9 |
fm | bell / metallic tones | frequency modulation | 9 |
wobble | auto filter sweep | filter LFO | 9 |
drive / crush | growl / lo-fi grit | distortion / bit-crush | 10 |
delay / reverb | echo / room | delay / reverb | 10 |
compress | auto volume evener | compression | 10 |
pan | left–right placement | panning | 11 |
sidechain | the “pumping” | ducking | 12 |
_ / . / glide | hold / stop / slide | tie / rest / portamento | 13 |
spread | even sprinkle of hits | Euclidean rhythm | 14 |
seed | repeatable randomness | PRNG seed | 14 |
master / limit | final volume / safety net | master bus / limiter | 15 |
.sb | a stack of songs & clips | project file | 16 |
layer | one song or clip in the stack | note layer / clip layer | 16 |
at | where a clip/song lands in time | placement | 16 |
trim | keep just part of a clip | trim | 16 |
loop | repeat a clip’s trimmed slice | loop | 16 |
fade | ease a clip in or out | fade in/out | 16 |
mix | each layer’s volume & pan | mix block | 16 |
master limit | final safety net for the whole project | master limiter | 16 |