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Native Instruments Battery 3
– comprehensive and powerful drum sampler (VST)

Needle
– a stylus that transfers sound by following a groove in a vinyl record

NNXT
– a software sampler that comes packed with Reason

Noise
– a portion of a signal such as hiss, hum, whine, static, or buzzing

Normalise

– boosts the volume of a track so that it’s as loud as possible without distortion. This maximises sound quality, eliminates noise, and produces an even volume among tracks from different sources.

Note
 – a sign used in music to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound

Note Length
– the duration of a note, or how long the note is held