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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

CPU
Abbreviation for Central Processing Unit. The chip on a computer's motherboard which ultimately controls all the activity of the computer. Standard Macs have a 680x0 chip (x = 0, 2, 3, or 4) manufactured by Motorola. PowerPC Macintoshes use a new RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) chip designed by a conglomerate of computer hardware manufactures, including Apple, IBM, and Motorola. Most IBM compatible computes use a chip based on Intel's X86 architecture. These days most electronic instruments (keyboards, drum machines, etc.) and digital tape machines have a CPU which controls all of the functions of the machine.

C-weighting

Cabinet

Cabinet Grand

Cache RAM

Cadence (or Close)

Cadillac Tailpiece

California Rebel

Camber

Canned Music (Slang)

Canon

Cans

Cantilever

Cantus Firmus

Capacitance

Capacitor

Capo

Capstan

Capsule

Capture

CardBus

Cardioid

Carillon

Carrier

Cart Machine

Cartridge

Carved-top Guitar

Case Candy

Cassette Tape

Cat's Eye

Cat 5

Cat 6

Cathode

Cathode Biased

CBR

CBS Era

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

Cent

Center Frequency

Center block

Center Tap

Centronics

Centronics 50

Challenge/Response

Chambered Body

Chamberlin

Chamfer

Channel Separation

Channel Status Bit

Channel Strip

Channel Voice Messages

Chart

Chase

Chatoyancy

Checking

Cheetah

Chipset

Chitarra Batente

Choke

Chooser

Chops

Chord

Chordophone

Chorus

Chroma

Chroma Keying

Chromatic (Chromatic Scale)

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 H

Classic

Claves

Clavinet

Clavioline

Claw

Claw/Drum Claw

Clean

Clean Boost

Clear Coat

Clearwood

Clef

Click

Click and Hold

Click Track

Client Ref

Clip

Clipboard

Clipping

Clock

Close-miking

Closed-back Cabinet

Closed Ear

Cluster

CLV

CMOS

Common Mode Rejection

CMRR

CMYK

CNC

Coaxial Cable

Cochlea

Cocobolo

Coda

Code

CODEC

Coercivity

COI KB 2200

Coil

Coil Tap

Coincident

Color

Coloration

Comb Filter

Combination/Combi

Combo Amp

Combo Organ

Comb String Converter

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

Concertina

Concert Pitch

 Condenser Microphone

Conductor

Cone

Cone Cry

Confidence Monitoring

Conform

Conga

Consecutive interval

Console

Consonance

Con Sordino

Constant Directivity

Constant Q

Construction Kit

Consumer

Contact Mic

Contact Pressure (Headphones)

Continue

Continuity

Continuo

Continuous Controller

Contour Amount

Control-click

Controller

Control Panel

Control Room

Control Surface

Control Voltage

Conversion Latency

Converter

Convolution

Cool

Copy

Copyleft

Copy Protection

Copyright

Coral Sitar

CoreAudio

CoreMIDI

Corksniffer

Corrupt/Corruption

COSM

Coulomb

Counter

Counterpoint

Count off (Count in)

Coupling

CPU

CPUCycle

Crash

CRC

Crescendo

Crest Factor

Critical Band

Critical Distance

Cross-Modulation

Crossfade

Crossover

Crossover Cable

Crossover Distortion

Cross Platform

Cross Stick

Cross Stick Crosstalk

Cross Switch

Crosstalk

Crotchet

Crown

CRT

CRV

CS-80

Csound

CS Update

Cue

Cue List (Cue Sheet)

Current

Current Limiting

Cursor

Cut

Cut-Only Equalizer

Cutaway

Cutoff Frequency

Cycle

     
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