Virtualization Of Music Instruments

Virtualization has become a new thing in today’s music industry. New software’s have emerged and that has given us new terms.

Terms like “vst, quantizing, loop, audio drivers, phaser, flanger, plate reverb, spring reverb, compressor, processors”.

All of these terms fall under one category, which is “synth”.

For example - If someone plays the guitar and has no bandmates to play with. So, he or she can simply use softwares to replicate the sound of the drums and other instruments.

Vst is an instrument. (virtualized instrument) which is plugged into a software to produce a particular instrument's sound.

Quantizing is a process. It is a process of making all the beats fall into place. (Making them tempo perfect).

Phraser, Flanger, Plate reverb, Spring Reverb, Compressors are all effects. They are used on a certain audio track or recording to give it a desired effect.

Processor is a kind of device which helps to process the sound of a certain instrument and adds a certain tone to it.

Music software’s like Ableton Live, Garage Band, Reaper, Cubase, Steinberg are known as DAW. (Digital Audio Workstations)

In todays world recording a certain instrument has become so easy. A person doesn’t even need an instrument to record it. Everything has become virtual. To make these Vsts, software developers sample each and every sound and note played by the original instrument. Then the sounds are encoded into the software. Hence, when the person presses a button or a note on the keyboard or a midi keyboard, the sound is triggered.

A MIDI keyboard is a Piano which works on plugging it into a computer. Midi Keyboards look like a piano. These keyboards are plugged into the computer to trigger the instrument sounds. The benefit of using midi keyboards is that, modulation of the sound is really easy.