• Home
  • Courses
    • The Basic Concepts of Synthesis
    • Learning Modular Level 1: The Comprehensive Starter Course
    • Introduction to Moog Mother-32
    • Introduction to Arturia Modular-V
    • Learning Modular Level 2: Eurorack Expansion
    • Course Descriptions & Other Resources
    • Course Login & Account
  • Patch & Tweak
  • Newsletters
  • Blog Posts
    • Articles
    • Videos
    • Trade Show Reports
    • Newsletters
  • Glossary
  • About
    • More About me
    • Music: Alias Zone

Duration

by Chris Meyer | Nov 16, 2016

Share This
Tweet

Duration is another way of saying length. A clock pulse or a gate signal that is “high” for a certain amount of time – say, 100 msec – is said to have a duration of 100 msec. The length of time you hold a note down, or the length of a step in a sequence, is also called its duration.

« Back to Glossary Index

Email List

Click here to sign up for my email list, including a monthly newsletter, alerts when new courses are released, etc.

More Resources

To get the full picture, click here to check out my courses, book, and Patreon channel

Blog Categories

  • Articles (19)
  • Eurorack Expansion (10)
  • Newsletters (28)
  • Stories (3)
  • Trade Show Reports (22)
  • Videos (28)

Recent Posts

  • Learning Modular July 2022 Newsletter: Remember Dave Smith
  • Learning Modular June 2022 Newsletter: Electronic Music Performance
  • Learning Modular May 2022 Newsletter: Latency in Digital Modules
  • Learning Modular April 2022 Newsletter: Ambient Performance
  • Learning Modular March 2022 Newsletter: Overload!

Go on, test your knowledge: do you know these terms?

  • Gate Detector
  • HP
  • Stackable Cable
  • Blue Noise
  • Inverting Mixer
  • (click here for the full Modular Synthesis Glossary)

Contact me:

12 + 7 =

  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow