The industry standard for the connection of a musical instrument to a computer. The main circuit board that holds the computer together. A motherboard has sockets for the CPU, expansion cards and external devices. This term refers to the use of sound and graphics. Mainly used for plugging a printer into your PC, occasionally used for scanners or cameras.
High costs mean PC cards are used mainly with portable computers.
RAM Random access memory. Adding extra RAM reduces the number of times that the computer processor needs to read data from your hard disk, and so reduces processing time. ROM Read-only memory. This is a chunk of memory in your computer that contains prewritten instructions which the system needs to access on a regular basis. ROM typically takes the form of chips on circuit boards.