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Commonly used abbreviations
Abbrev | Shorthand for | Explanation |
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AB | Audiobus | An IOS software that allows to connect audio and midi application. Currently using the IAA protocoll for inter process communication. The AB app supports AU plugins and offers application switching and application state saving and remote control (see Audiobus features) |
AB3 | Audiobus 3 | Third version of the AudioBus protocoll |
ABF | Audiobus Forum | The main forum for IOS musicians and developers |
AD | Audio Damage | A company offering audio plugins |
AM | Amplitude Modulation | Sound synthesis: Modulating the volume of an audio signal with another audio signal (Wikipedia) |
AU | Audio Unit | Apples audio plugin format for Audio and Midi plugins, currently version 3 (AUv3) |
AU Host | Audio Unit Host | An application that can load plugins in the AUv3 format |
AUM | Audio Mixer | An audio mixing app (like Audiobus) with support for user defined channel routing, supports IAAs and AUv3. AUM itself can be loaded in Audiobus to achieve state saving and process switching for IAAs |
AUv3 | Audio Unit Version 3 | Apples audio plugin format for Audio and Midi plugins, there are several plugin subtypes types depending on the inputs and outputs of the plugin (see AU features, or for list of AUs and hosts) |
CPP | Chord Poly Pad | A MIDI chords player app with AB3 state-saving support |
DAW | Digital Audio Workstation | A software used for recording, editing and producing audio files. (Wikipedia) |
EQ | Equalizer | A plugin or app adjusting the balance between frequency components (Wikipedia) |
FF | FabFilter | A company offering audio plugins |
FM | Frequency Modulation | Sound synthesis: Modulating the frequency of an audio signal with another audio signal generates interesting (often inharmonic) overtones (Wikipedia) |
IAA | Inter-App-Audio | An Apple audio / midi protocoll to connect stand-alone, fullscreen applications (see IAA features) |
OT | Off topic | Discussions not related to the forums or threads main topic |
SB | Sugar Bytes | A company offering audio plugins |