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Music Tier 3 — Family Indexes

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Music Tier 3 — Family Indexes

This is the Tier 3 (T3) Map of Content (MOC) for the Music library. T3 notes are deep, catalog-style references — long enumerations of genres, instruments, tools, and ecosystems that don’t fit naturally into a Tier 2 family page but are load-bearing reference material a working agent needs to look up.

T3 sits between T2 (family overview) and T4 (deep single-topic dives). T3 notes are “catalogs”: breadth-over-depth references intended to be the canonical entry point when an agent needs to know “what are all the X” rather than “how does one specific X work”.

Published T3 catalogs

  • genre-tree-and-instrument-catalog — Genre lineage trees (Western classical medieval → contemporary; jazz Dixieland → modern; rock blues → indie; hip-hop Bronx → trap; electronic musique concrète → modern; country traditional → crossover; world music families) and the full Hornbostel-Sachs instrument catalog (idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, electrophones, voice) with concrete makes + models throughout. ~600 lines.

Planned / deferred T3 catalogs

The following are scoped but not yet written. Listed in rough priority order:

  • DAW comparison — Pro Tools (Avid; industry standard for film/post, HDX hardware ecosystem) vs Logic Pro (Apple, macOS only, Mainstage for live) vs Ableton Live (Berlin; clip/session view, Max for Live) vs Cubase (Steinberg) vs Studio One (PreSonus) vs FL Studio (Image-Line; pattern sequencer heritage) vs Reaper (Cockos; cheap + scriptable) vs Bitwig Studio (Bitwig; modulator-first) vs Cakewalk (free; Bandlab) vs Reason (rack metaphor) vs GarageBand vs Tracktion Waveform; routing, MIDI, comping, bounce, ARA, surround/Atmos support, price tiers.

  • Microphone catalog — dynamic (Shure SM57, SM58, SM7B, Beta 52A, 91A; Sennheiser MD 421-II, e609, e906, e835, MD 441; Electro-Voice RE20, RE320, N/D767a; AKG D112); condenser large-diaphragm (Neumann U 87 Ai, U 67, TLM 103, TLM 49; AKG C414 XLII; Sony C-800G; Telefunken U47, ELA M 251; Manley Reference Cardioid; Sony C-100); small-diaphragm (Neumann KM 184, KM 84; AKG C451; Schoeps CMC6/MK4; DPA 4011, 4006); ribbon (Royer R-121, R-122, SF-12; Coles 4038; AEA R84, KU5A; RCA 44/77 vintage); USB (Shure MV7, MV7X; Blue Yeti; Audio-Technica AT2020USB+; Rode NT-USB+); lavalier + shotgun (Sennheiser MKE 600, MKH 416, MKH 8060; Schoeps CMIT 5U; Sanken CS-3e; DPA 4017B); polar patterns + frequency response trade-offs.

  • Synthesizer catalog — analog (Moog Minimoog Model D, One, Matriarch, Grandmother, Sub 37, Mavis; Sequential Prophet-5 Rev4, Prophet-6, Prophet-10, Take 5, Pro 3, Trigon-6; Oberheim OB-X8; ARP Odyssey reissue Korg; Dave Smith OB-6); virtual analog (Roland Jupiter-Xm, JD-XA, System-8; Korg minilogue xd, prologue, opsix native, drumlogue; Behringer DeepMind 12, Crave, Model D); FM (Yamaha DX7 vintage + Reface DX + Montage M; Korg opsix; Native Instruments FM8); wavetable (Waldorf Quantum + Iridium; Korg Modwave; soft Massive X + Serum + Vital); granular (Tasty Chips GR-1; soft Output Portal); modular Eurorack ecosystem (Mutable Instruments legacy + Plaits/Rings/Beads + Make Noise + Doepfer + Behringer System 100m clones).

  • Audio plugin catalog — DAW-bundled (Pro Tools’ AAX vs Logic’s AU vs cross-platform VST3 + AAX) and third-party — channel-strip (UAD Neve 1073, SSL 4000, API 2500; Waves SSL series + Scheps Omni Channel; Plugin Alliance Brainworx); EQ (FabFilter Pro-Q 3 + 4, Pro-MB; iZotope Ozone EQ; Sonnox Oxford EQ); compression (FabFilter Pro-C 2; Waves CLA-76, CLA-2A; UAD 1176

    • LA-2A; Tokyo Dawn Kotelnikov; PSP Audioware); reverb (Valhalla VintageVerb
    • Plate + Room + Delay; FabFilter Pro-R 2; Lexicon native; Liquidsonics Cinematic Rooms); mastering (FabFilter Pro-L 2; iZotope Ozone 11; Sonible smart:limit; ProL2); creative (Soundtoys 5; FabFilter Saturn 2; Output Movement); virtual instruments (Spitfire Audio orchestral + LABS; Native Instruments Komplete; Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 + Trilian + Keyscape; Heavyocity; East West Hollywood + Composer Cloud).

Cross-references

Music T3 catalogs link to T2 family pages for context:

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