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Quantising - A way found in MIDI sequencers, including those on your PC, to force badly timed notes to the nearest 'correct' value, and so keep your recording in perfect time.

Quicktime - A video file format invented by Apple, and used on both PCs and Macs.

QWERTY keyboard - The standard English keyboard layout, so called because the first six letters on the top row of the keyboard are QWERTY. Similarly, French keyboards can be referred to as AZERTY while some other languages, including German, use a QWERTZ keyboard layout.
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