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Time Division Multiplexing |
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To what does a TDM System refer? |
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A Hardware based Pro Tools system |
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How many DSP chips are on any HD Card? |
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What determines your voice count? |
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The first two cards in the system |
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What is the order in which you install your cards? |
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Cor Card, Accel Cards, Process Cards |
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What is the maximum number of cards you can have in a system? |
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How many discrete channels of I/O can an interface give you? |
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How many interfaces can be run on one card? |
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What is the maximum number of discrete channels of I/O you can have in an HD system? |
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How many cards are required to provide the maximum number of I/O in an HD system? |
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What is the Resolution and Bit Depth of a 192 I/O? |
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What type of connections are primarily used on the 192 I/O interface? |
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What type of connections are primarily used on the 96 I/O interface? |
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What connections are present in a 96i I/O? |
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16 analog inputs, 2 analog outputs, and 2 S/PDIF |
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An Event or audio pathway to or from storage |
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What is the maximum number of voices in an HD system? |
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What happens to your voice count each time you double your sample rate? |
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Where do you change how many voices your using, and how many DSP chips are dedicated to voices? |
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What type of plug in utilizes the CPU in a TDM system? |
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Where do you go to configure the physical connections to the system? |
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Where do you go to configure your naming and assignment of busses inputs and outputs? |
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Where is youyr Hardware Setup and I/O setup information saved? |
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How do you measure DSP delay? |
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Command-Click on volume display |
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What are the two methods of compensating for DSP delay, and when are they used? |
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Time Adjuster Plug-In (To affect one track), and Automatic Delay Compensation (Global) |
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When is Delay Compensation automatically turned off? |
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When track is record enabled, its input activated, or Punched in |
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Where do you go to use Delay Compensation? |
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Setup-Playback Engine-Delay Compensation |
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How much compensation is allowed with the Short setting? |
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How much compensation is allowed at the Long Setting? |
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What is the purpose of the user offset? |
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To adjust the delay if it is calculated incorrectly |
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What is Pro Tools LE's version of delay compensation? |
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An internal Audio Pathway |
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What are the two main functions of a bus? |
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Combining and Routing Signals |
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How many mono busses are there in Pro Tools HD? |
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How do you set up a cue send in Pro Tools HD? |
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A pre fader send, bussed to an aux, routed to a Cue System Output |
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What are the two ways to monitor if the signal is clipping the bus? |
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Insert a Master Fader, or use the Meter View on the Output window |
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How do you fix a clipping bus? |
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Use a master fader to trim it |
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What is another important function of a bus? |
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Does multing tracks use voices? |
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What must happen in order to use a Key input or a sidechan? |
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Has to be a bus in the key input, and Key input button must be activated |
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If you don't want to use a send, what is another way to send signal to multiple places? |
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Multiple track outputs (Control-Click on output) |
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What indicates that a track is going to multiple outputs? |
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How many user defined groups are available in Pro Tools HD? |
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What are the three types of groups in Pro Tools? |
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Edit, Mix, and Edit and Mix groups |
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Volume, Solo/Mutes, Send Level/Mutes, Edits, Track Height, anbd Automation modes |
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Record Arms, Pans, Voices, I/O, Plug In Settings |
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What is the quick key to create a group? |
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What are the three windows that allow keyboard focus quick keys? |
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Edit Window, Group Window, and Regions list |
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If a track is hidden, but part of a group what, if any group changes will apply to the hidden track? |
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Mix functions, but not Edit Functions |
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What does the Circle symbol in the Group window signify? |
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Some members of that group are selected |
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What does the Solid Dot symbol in the Group window signify? |
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All members of that group selected, and no others |
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What does the Bullseye symbol in the Group window signify? |
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All members of that group are selected, with others |
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In a nested group, which group takes priority? |
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The larger group as long as its active |
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Routing the outputs of multiple tracks to an Aux Input |
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What can the Aux track of a Subgroup do? |
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Can control overall volume of the subgroup, and can process the subgroup signal as a whole |
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What is the difference between Subgroups and Submixes? |
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A submix is printed down to an audio track |
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Two Identical subgroups, on Dry, and one heavily compressed |
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What was the first type of plug in available on Pro Tools? |
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What type of plug in is an Audio Suite Plug In? |
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What does the processing of an Audio Suite Plug In? |
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What does the processing in a TDM plug in? |
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What does the processing in an RTAS plug in? |
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What happens if an RTAS plug in is inserted after a TDM plug in? |
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It uses two voices per channel and introduces a lot of delay |
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What are Multi Channel Plug Ins? |
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Plug ins that process multiple channels with the same settings |
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What are Multi Mono Plug Ins? |
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Plug ins that process multiple channels with different settings |
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What is a Mono'Stereo plug in? |
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A Plug in that has a mono input and a stereo output |
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What is the purpose of the librarian menu on plug ins? |
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Saving and Recalling plug in settings from other sessions |
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What does import session data do? |
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Allows tracks from one session to be impoted into another session |
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What does the System Usage Window show you? |
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PCI Bus Activity, CPU Activity, Disk Usage, and DSP usage |
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What are the six Automation modes? |
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Off, Read, Write, Touch, Latch, and Trim |
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Writes new data for enabled parameters from start to end |
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Its update mode, reads until fader is touched, then writes until fader is released |
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Adjusts existing data proportionally |
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Which mode is exclusive to TDM systems? |
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Volume, Pan and Mute on Audio, Aux, Sends, and MIDI Tracks; Volume on Master Faders; and All Plug in Settings |
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Disables writing and erasing but not playback |
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How many playlists does a MIDI track have? |
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Pro Tools Automation Data is written as __________. |
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Pro Tools _________ between break points at ________ bit. |
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How do we reduce the number of breakpoints? |
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What does suspending Automation do? |
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Disables writing erasing and playback for one or more parameter(s) on one or more track(s) |
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The time the fader takes to glide to null point after fader is released in touch mode. (Ramp mode) |
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What is the touch timeout? |
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The amount of inactive time for a fader before Pro Tools decides it has been released on a non touch sensitive fader |
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What must happen in order for us to automate plug ins? |
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Plug in controls must be enabled |
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When editing automation graphically, what tool allows you to create breakpoints? |
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What is the difference between the cut and delete function while graphically editing automation? |
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Cut leaves a breakpoint at the begginning and end of the selection, while clear leaves no break points |
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You can also _____________breakpoints by using the + or - key |
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What is a control surface? |
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Mouse/Keyboard substitute |
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What does fader flip do on a control surface? |
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Moves knob functions to faders |
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Why does the Digi 002 break all the rules? |
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Because its FireWire and it is an interface unlike the others |
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What is the maximum number of faders you can have on an ICON control surface? |
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What is the maximum number of channels you can monitor on an ICON control surface? |
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What is the maximum number of channels you can monitor on an Pro Control control surface? |
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What is the maximum number of faders you can have with a Pro Control Control surface? |
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What is the maximum number of channels you can monitor on an D-Command control surface? |
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What is the maximum number of faders you can have on a D Command Control Surface? |
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How many faders are on a Control 24? |
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