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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9

Chipset
In a personal computer, the integrated circuit (IC) chips that define the functions of a CPU. The chipset is in charge of controlling the flow of instructions to the CPU as well as defining the available buses. Chipsets are normally integrated - soldered onto the motherboard. On early personal computers these functions required as many as 30 individual chips. Current PCs have consolidated all these circuits into only two or three chips. Intel (Pentium) and AMD-based computers have two distinctive chips. The northbridge typically handles communications between the CPU, RAM, and AGP or PCI Extended graphics cards. Some northbridge chips also contain integrated video controllers. The southbridge chip normally defines and controls the operation of other buses and devices, including the PCI bus, the PS/2 interface for keyboard and mouse, the serial port, the parallel port, and the floppy drive controller. The chipset used by a given manufacturer of motherboards can have a significant impact on the way in which that board (and the resulting computer that uses it) will interact with various peripheral devices. Some hardware, particularly more exotic audio recording hardware, can be pretty picky about chipsets and their associated data protocols.

C-weighting

Cab

Cabinet

Cabinet Emulation

Cabinet Grand

Cabinet Simulator

Cable Tester

Cache RAM

Cadence (or Close)

Cadillac Tailpiece

California Rebel

Camber

Cancellation

Canned Music (Slang)

Cannon Connector

Canon

Cans

Cantilever

Cantus Firmus

Cap

Capacitance

Capacitor

Capo

Capstan

Capsule

Capture

Card

CardBus

Cardioid

Carillon

Carrier

Cart Machine

Cartridge

Carved-top Guitar

Case Candy

Cassette Tape

Cat's Eye

Cat 5

Cat 6

Cathode

Cathode Biased

Cathode Stripping

CBR

CBS Era

CC

CCIR

CCIR 468-weighting

CCIR ARM-weighting

CC Number

CD

CD+G

CD-ROM

CD-RW

CD24

CDDA

CD Extra

CDR

CD Text

Cedar

Celesta

Cell

Cell Manufacturing

Cent

Center Frequency

Center block

Center Tap

Centronics

Centronics 50

Ceramic Capacitor

Chain Drive

Challenge/Response

Chambered Body

Chamberlin

Chamfer

Channel

Channel Separation

Channel Status Bit

Channel Strip

Channel Voice Messages

Chart

Chase

Chatoyancy

Checking

Cheetah

Chevron

China Cymbal

Chip

Chipset

Chitarra Batente

Choke

Choke (Cymbal)

Chooser

Chops

Chord

Chordophone

Chorus

Chroma

Chroma Keying

Chromatic (Chromatic Scale)

 Chromatic Harmonica

Chromatic Tailpiece

Chromatic Tuner

CIRC

Circle of Fifths

Circuit Breaker

Circumaural

CISC

CITES

CITES

Cittern

Clamping Voltage

Class-D Amplifier

Class A

Class AB

Class B

Class Compliant

Class H

Classic

Claves

Clavinet

Clavioline

Claw

Claw/Drum Claw

Claw Spring

Clean

Clean Boost

Clear Coat

Clearwood

Clef

Click

Click and Drag

Click and Hold

Click Track

Client Ref

Clip

Clipboard

Clipping

Clock

Close-miking

Closed-back Cabinet

Closed-voice Triad

Closed Ear

Cluster

CLV

CMOS

Common Mode Rejection

CMRR

CMYK

CNC

Coaster

Coaxial Cable

Cochlea

Cocktail Kit

Cocobolo

Coda

Code

CODEC

Coercivity

COI KB 2200

Coil

Coil Split

Coil Tap

Coincident

Color

Coloration

Comb Filter

Combi Jack

Combination/Combi

Combo

Combo Amp

Combo Organ

Comb String Converter

Comfort Cut

Command-click

Commission

Common Time

Comp

Comp/Comping

Compact Disc

Compact Flash

Companding

Compass

Compensation (guitar)

Compilation Score

Compile

Component Video

COM Port

Composite Track

Composite Video

Compound Interval

Compound Meter

Compound Radius

Compression

Compression (data)

Compression Driver

Compressor

Computer Monitor

Concertina

 Concert Pitch

Condenser Microphone

Conductor

Cone

Cone Cry

Confidence Monitoring

Conform

Conga

Connectivity

Consecutive interval

Console

Console EQ

Consonance

Con Sordino

Constant Directivity

Constant Q

Construction Kit

Consumer

Contact Mic

Contact Pressure (Headphones)

Continue

Continuity

Continuity Tester

Continuo

Continuous Controller

Contour Amount

Control-click

Control Cavity

Controller

Control Panel

Control Room

Control Surface

Control Voltage

Conversion Latency

Converter

Convolution

Cool

Coprocessor

Copy

Copyleft

Copy Protection

Copyright

Coral Sitar

CoreAudio

CoreAudio-compliant

CoreMIDI

CoreMIDI-compliant

Corksniffer

Corrupt/Corruption

COSM

Coulomb

Counter

Counterpoint

Count off (Count in)

Coupling

CPU

CPUCycle

Crash

Crash Cymbal

CRC

Crescendo

Crest Factor

Critical Band

Critical Distance

Cross-Modulation

Crossfade

Crossgrade

Cross Harp

Crossover

Crossover Cable

Crossover Distortion

Cross Platform

Cross Stick

Cross Stick Crosstalk

Cross Switch

Crosstalk

Crotchet

Crown

CRT

Crunch

CRV

CS-80

Csound

CS Update

Cue

Cue List (Cue Sheet)

Cue Mix

Curly Maple

Current

Current Limiting

Cursor

Cut

Cut-Only Equalizer

Cutaway

Cutoff Frequency

Cycle

Cymbal

Cymbal Arm

Cymbal Choke

     
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