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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.

  • daw-and-plugin-catalog — DAWs: Pro Tools (Avid; film/post standard, HDX) vs Logic Pro (Apple, Mainstage for live) vs Ableton Live (clip/session view, Max for Live) vs Cubase (Steinberg) vs Studio One (PreSonus) vs FL Studio (Image-Line) vs Reaper (Cockos; scriptable) vs Bitwig (modulator-first) vs Cakewalk vs Reason vs GarageBand vs Tracktion Waveform; routing, MIDI, comping, ARA, surround/Atmos, price tiers; DAW-less hardware (Elektron, MPC, Push 3). Plugins: formats (VST, AU, AAX, CLAP, LV2, ARA); channel-strip (UAD Neve 1073, SSL 4000, API 2500; Waves; Plugin Alliance Brainworx); EQ (FabFilter Pro-Q, iZotope Ozone, Sonnox); compression (FabFilter Pro-C, Waves CLA-76 / CLA-2A, UAD 1176 / LA-2A); reverb (Valhalla, FabFilter Pro-R, Liquidsonics); mastering (FabFilter Pro-L 2, iZotope Ozone, Sonible); creative (Soundtoys); virtual instruments (Spitfire, NI Komplete, Spectrasonics Omnisphere).

  • microphone-and-synthesizer-catalog — Microphones: polar patterns; dynamic (Shure SM57, SM58, SM7B, Beta 52A; Sennheiser MD 421-II, e906, MD 441; Electro-Voice RE20; AKG D112); large-diaphragm condenser (Neumann U 87 Ai, U 67, TLM 103; AKG C414 XLII; Sony C-800G; Telefunken U47, ELA M 251); small-diaphragm (Neumann KM 184; Schoeps CMC6/MK4; DPA 4011, 4006); ribbon (Royer R-121, SF-12; Coles 4038; AEA R84; RCA 44/77); USB + shotgun + lavalier (Shure MV7; Sennheiser MKH 416; Schoeps CMIT 5U; DPA 4017B). Synthesizers: analog (Moog Minimoog, Matriarch, Sub 37; Sequential Prophet-5/6/10, Take 5, Pro 3; Oberheim OB-X8); virtual analog (Roland Jupiter-Xm, System-8; Korg minilogue xd; Behringer DeepMind 12); FM (Yamaha DX7 + Montage M; Korg opsix; NI FM8); wavetable (Waldorf Quantum/Iridium; soft Massive X + Serum + Vital); granular; Eurorack modular ecosystem (Mutable Instruments, Make Noise, Doepfer); drum machines/grooveboxes; clonewheel organs; stage/workstation flagships.

Cross-references

Music T3 catalogs link to T2 family pages for context:

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