Sap - Sampled percussion - usually a given, but specifiable nonetheless

Drohh - Drum, rolling open hi hat

VSpc - Vocal Sample, personal contribution

spm - Semitone pitch manipulation

del - Delay

tonesh - Tone shift; these are heard in improvisational deep cuts, where patches are being
sorted and experimented with as the recorder is going.

abcd - abecedarian - typically used to signify a metronomic element; the drum chain may be
present but as its used in such a minimal fashion, the disclaimer is warranted.

_mt - manual trigger

_pdj - percussive data juxtaposition

sL - Soft Linear, typical with improvised sequencer programming, resulting in a cohesive
sounding drum layer but with quirks of quantization artifacts and just loose vibe in that
the transitions and patterns often waiver, albeit with greater precision

V - Vertical, usually dealing with a looped percussive pattern which creates a suitable
template for improvisation

Vg - Vertical, with a groove

L - Linear or Layer, in which the drums have been consolidated prior or early in the
arrangement process, where the guitars and remaining accompanying instruments are forced
to exist within its confines.

LES - Lame Emotional Song

S - Slab, a chunk of music that isn't as clinical or component as a part, denoted by 'P'

P - Part, the ideal fabric of a loop

F - Freeform, no sequencing element

O - odd, unplanned, abstract

Dsm - Drums, severely manipulated (i.e. downpitched to the point they sound like industrial
equipment)

Ghm - Guitar, heavily modulated

Clg - Clean guitar

Sa - Sampler

Sab - Sampled bass

Sag - Sampled guitar

Saav - Sampled TV

Saprt - Sampled part (coelesced instruments)

Sasy - Sampled synth

Sy - Synth

Nim - No Input Mixing (includes the harsh variety which employs distortion/fuzz in the loop)

Nim2 - No Input Mixing w/ effectation

Pe - Part, edited

Dok - Drums, organic kit

Dokrc - Drums, organic kit room capture

Ddmrc - Drums, drum machine room capture

(o) - obscured considerably

If a global effect is present, denote it first - for room recordings, !room!; for straight
DI "pristine" conditions no denotion is required. For DI with blended global effect, !DI/FX!
for left channel=DI, right channel=FX. For non-stereo isolated examples, !DIFX!.
a suffix of -p indicates pitching of the effected channel, the value immediately after indicates
by how much. FXgl denotes a global effect being present and dominating the whole breadth of the
chain

Dks - Drum pattern comprised of only kick and snare

LF - Long Form denotion, usually placed in front of a sampled instrument tag. This is almost entirely
used to signify the use of the Zoom GX1's integrated looper, the rare instances of its use.

mP - multilevel part, multiple parts still not qualifying as a linear composition

Dmide - Drums, multiple individual drum elements

U - Unstructured, sample respository, nonmusical jam

^ - denotes the measures before repetition - this gives insight into if the pattern is
radically simple or perhaps more breatheable on account of some nuance to the loop

wsm - wild sampler configuration

mdm - mouse driven muting

all currently used distinctions

Drums; Dohh, Dmide, Drkd, Dsm, Dok
Bass; B, Sab, Sabsm
Guitar; G, Sag, Sagsm
Vocals; V, Sav