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Here's what you need to know for the Sound Engineering and Production option. (MIDI Sequencing concepts below.)

Access 3 Sound Engineering and Production Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Amplifier CD Channel Connector Count-in Distortion Dry Echo Fader Fade in Fade out Gain Headphones Input Jack plug Lead/cable	Level Loudspeaker Meter Microphone Microphone stand Mix Mono(phonic) Noise Output Phono plug Recorder Session log Stereo(phonic) Track Trim Wet	Guitar Backing vocals Bass guitar Drum kit Introduction Lead vocal Riff Synthesiser Vocals

Support Concepts (useful to know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Acoustic Acoustic screen Arrangements Circuit breaker Control room Live room Mains multi-block Record	Session Signal Take Tape Tone control Track sheets Two-track recorder (2-track)	Arrangements

Intermediate 1 Sound Engineering and Production Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Balance Buss Cardioid/uni-directional microphone Click track Close mic'd DI box Effects unit Equalisation (EQ) Final mix Foldback Mixing desk/Mixer Monitor Multi-track	Mute/cut Omni-directional microphone Overdrive Overdub Pan(ning) Peak Popping and blasting Pop-shield Reverb(eration) Stereo master Talkback Time domain effects Windshield XLR	Acoustic guitar Chorus (in a song structure) Dynamics/Expression Electric guitar Guide vocal Solo Verse

Support Concepts (useful to know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Ambience Boom (stand) Cue Direct sound Earth/ground Indirect sound Master fader	MIDI Overdrive Overload Pick-up Pick-up pattern Remix Stage Monitor Tracking	Flat Wah-wah

Intermediate 2 Sound Engineering and Production Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
AFL/Solo Analogue Auxilliary send/return Boost (EQ) Chorus (effect) Compressor Condenser microphone Delay (effect) Digital Dynamic mic Dynamic range EQ Cut Feedback Filter	Frequency response Impedance Leakage Line level Mic level Noise gate PFL Phantom power Proximity effect Punch in/out — Drop in/out Sibilance Signal path Spillage	Middle 8 Texture Bridge Key change/modulation Pitch bend Rhythms

Support Concepts (useful to know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Attenuate Autolocate Effects loop (FX) Foldback Gated reverb Hard-disk recorder I/O Masking Mini-disc (MD) Patchbay	Patchlead Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ratio) Shock mount Subgroup Sub-woofer Synchronisation (Sync) Tweeter Woofer

Higher Sound Engineering and Production Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
Attack Balanced wiring connectors Bouncing Clipping dB Decay Echo/reflection Enhancer/exciter Figure-of-eight mic File compression Graphic equalizer Insert point Limiter	Parametric equalizer Phase cancellation Phasing Pitch shift Pre-fade Post-fade Ratio Shelving equalization Stereo pair Threshold Unbalanced wiring connectors	Coda Outro Sustain Tempo/timing Tremolo

Support Concepts (useful to know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
AB Comparison ADSR Active Balanced wiring Bandpass filter (BPF) Centre frequency Crosstalk DAT DSP High pass filter (HPF) Master Post -production Pre-production Low pass filter (LPF) Passive	Presence peak/colouration Q/bandwidth Red book standard Slave SPL Squawker Submix Synchronisation Sweep Transducer Transient TRS jack Waveform Wavelength

Advanced Higher Sound Engineering and Production Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
A/D convertor Bit depth/rate Byte Co-incident pair/xy pair D/A convertor Dolby DTS DVD Editing Expander Glitch Harmonics Harmoniser Hyper-cardioid Latency LFO	Matched pair Normalising Optical link Playlist Plug-in Pre-delay Quantizing (audio) Ribbon microphone Sample rate/frequency Scrub SMPTE Spaced pair S/P Dif Super-cardioid Surround sound T Dif	Link passage Instrumental break Phrasing Polyphony Vocal break

Support Concepts (useful to know)
Equipment, Controls, Effects, Processes, Techniques and Technical Specifications		Other Musical Features
ASIO Automated mixing Control surface LFE DAW DVD-audio MS MTC (MIDI time code)	Pad PPM SACD Total recall Total reset Vocoder VU

Access 3 MIDI Sequencing Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
General Terms		Equipment
Arrange window BPM (beats per minute) Copy/Cut and paste Count-in Event Local control Metronome/click MIDI MIDI files MIDI In MIDI Out Mix/Balance Pan	Record Save Silence Tempo Time signature Track (names) Transport bar/controls Undo Velocity Volume	Amplifier Headphones Interface Loudspeaker MIDI interface Sequencer Synthesizer

Support Concepts (useful to know)
General Terms		Equipment
Application File management Format Signal Toolbox		CD Computer Jack connector Joystick port Keyboard controller Studio

Intermediate 1 MIDI Sequencing Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
General Terms		Equipment
Backup copy Balance Boot Chorus (in a song structure) Controller keyboard Dynamics/Expression Effects (FX) General MIDI Import/Export Introduction Key change/Modulation Level Locators Loop Markers	MIDI channel MIDI Thru Modulation controller Mute Octave Pitch Programme change Quantization Reset controller Reverb(eration) Snap Solo Sustain Time signature Track list Transpose Verse	CDR CDRW GM mixer Phono connector USB

Support Concepts (useful to know)
General Terms		Equipment
Cycle/loop modes Input Note number Output Parameter	Patch Production log Timbre Track object Zoom in/out	Monitor Sound module Sustain pedal

Intermediate 2 MIDI Sequencing Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
General Terms		Equipment
Chorus depth Chorus (effect) Coda Digital Fade in Fade out Fader Introduction Local Key command Master fader Merge Middle 8 Mix(down)	Mono(phonic) Multi-timbral Note off Note on Outro Overdub Pitch bend Punch In/Out-Drop In/Out Real time Remix Rhythms Stereo(phonic) Tremolo	Sound card

Support Concepts (useful to know)
General Terms		Equipment
Continuous controller Cycle/loops mode GS (General Standard MIDI) MIDI implementation chart Step-time recording

Higher MIDI Sequencing Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
General Terms		Equipment
Aftertouch Analogue dB Delay Distortion Dry Expression Glitch Hiss	Noise Nudge Pitch shifter Polyphony Portamento Sample Wet	Minidisc (MD) Mixer MP3

Support Concepts (useful to know)
General Terms		Equipment
Automated mixing Bank Frequency response Groove Latency Overload Peak Playlist	Plug-in Sample editor Sample frequency Scrub Softsynth Truncate VST VST instrument	Firewire

Advanced Higher MIDI Sequencing Concepts

Mandatory Concepts (must know)
General Terms		Equipment
AIFF (Audio file format) Ambience Audio Audio file Auxiliary send/return Bass Clip Crossfade Envelope (ADSR) EQ Flanging Gate (noise) Gated reverb Harmoniser Hum Instrumental break Limiter	Line level Link passage Mic level Normalize Parametric equalizer Phaser S/P Dif Surround sound Synchronisation T Dif Time compression Time expansion Transient Vocal break Wav Waveform	Audio instrument Audio interface Compressor/Compression A/D convertor D/A convertor DI Harmonizer Microphone Phantom power XLR connector

Support Concepts (useful to know)
General Terms		Equipment
Arpeggiator ASIO (Sound driver) Bit depth DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) DSP (software) EASI (Enhanced Audio Streaming Interface) LSB	MSB Non-linear Pad Phrasing PPM RTAS (plug-in) SACD (audio format) SD2 (format) Talkback Threshold	DAW (digital interface) Hard disk drive Vocoder