Electronic music - musical terms

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These are generic musical terms (of which there are many more).

And roughly the subset seen implemented on synths.

Vibrato

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Vibrato is a regular variation in pitch.

Tends to be a small and fast change.

Used in singing, and in various instruments.

Can be used for a fuller sound, a more emotive sound, for a spacier sound, for more permissive pitch perception, etc.

From a synthesis perspective, it's frequency modulation with a small amplitude (typically less than a semitone) and fairly slow(-for-FM) carrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato

Tremolo

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A trembling effect.

This can come either from

• very rapid repetition of a note

sometimes for the perception of it being played longer

sometimes for the texture that the variation in volume gives

• a (often fast) variation in volume.

Sometimes confused with vibrato, which makes sense in that on various instruments (and e.g. a Leslie speaker) the two come hand in hand, due to physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremolo

Dynamics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)

Ornament

Ornaments are notes (improvised, marked, or marked with some interpretation on how to play) that are not necessary to the melody, harmony, or rhythm (in the analytical sense), but still add to the piece as a form of decoration.