Jargon help.

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Is there anywhere I can find out what all the general recording jargon means?

I'm looking through the MS2000R manual, and I have no idea what the hell anything actually means, eg. Arpreggiator, all the different types of filter, portamento...etc ( just a few examples in virtually the first paragraph I read ).
I know what most of the words mean, but when linked up with recording expressions I get lost - like I know what a 'filter' is, but what are 'band-pass filters' and an 'analysis filter', 'synthesis filter', 'envelope follower'...

I suppose I could look up each phrase individually on the internet, but is there a site or something which runs through all of the different technical names and terms and jargon which is used?
 
The top thread over in the hip-hop forum (https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=144424) has links to a LOT of articles. Under "Synthesis", there are links to a 41-part (!!!) series called Synth Secrets at Sound on Sound. This is a pretty good "bible" of synthesis, and it includes explanations of a lot of this stuff. It won't work quite like a glossary, but you may find it useful. Check out the other links on the Synthesis page - one of them might be more concise.
 
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The top thread over in the hip-hop forum (https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=144424) has links to a LOT of articles. Under "Synthesis", there are links to a 41-part (!!!) series called Synth Secrets at Sound on Sound. This is a pretty good "bible" of synthesis, and it includes explanations of a lot of this stuff. It won't work quite like a glossary, but you may find it useful. Check out the other links on the Synthesis page - one of them might be more concise.
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Thanks for that link.

Have been reading the 'Sound on Sound' articles over the last 24 hours, and it has helped enormously with my understanding. It does go quite in depth at times, but I now realise how lost I would have been had I started to try and do things with my synth from scratch.

10 pages down, 31 to go. :)
 
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