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What are the optimized audio protocols? |
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ASIO (Steinberg), WDM (Windows) Core Audio (Mac) |
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What is the Pro Tools protocol? |
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DAE (Digidesign Audio Engine |
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_______ is a plug in format, developed by Steinberg, with wide cross platform support. |
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_______ is a plug in format, developed by Microsoft, only supported by PC's. |
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_______ is a plug in format, developed by Apple with no PC Support. |
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File-Based plug in formats _______ effects to the file. |
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What do plug-in wrappers do? |
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Change the format of the plug in with no loss of efficiency |
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What does Pro Tools use for plug in authorization? |
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What are the three system usage windows in Pro Tools? |
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CPU Activity, PCI Activity, and Disk |
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What does the CPU activity window monitor? |
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CPU computational bandwidth |
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Less Disk Traffic= More ________. |
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Faster _______ or more ________ = more plug ins |
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Does bypassing plug ins free up CPU usage? |
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What is the purpose of making elements injactive? |
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Frees up processing and voices |
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How would you "print" effects? |
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Use equivalent Audiosuite plug in or bounce tracks and import |
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What is the benefit of printing effects? |
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It allows you to delete the original tracks/plugins or make them inactive without losing your effects |
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What is Monitoring Latency? |
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The delay between the input and the output |
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What is a general definition of latency? |
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The delay between a cause and effect |
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During Tracking, _______ latency is critical |
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During mixing, latency is __________ |
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When using Virtual Instruments ________ latency is critical |
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What is an Audiosuite plug in? |
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File Based Plug In, where processed audio is written to a file, not processed in real time |
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What is the main benefit of file based processing? |
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No CPU is used during playback |
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Are AudioSuite plug ins destructive or non destructive? |
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Can be either depending on settings |
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Where does the processed audio file/region get its name? |
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What does the plug in selector button do? |
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Allows you to change the plug in from within the floating plug in window |
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What are the two Selection reference settings? |
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Playlist and Regions List |
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What happens when use in playlist is highlighted? |
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The selected region will be replaced in the playlist as well as the regions list |
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What are the three file modes? |
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Overwrite, Create Individual Files, and Create Continuous File |
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Overwrite File mode is ______________ |
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What does Create Individual files do? |
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Non Destructive, creates a new processed region for each selected region or partial region |
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What does Create Continuous File do? |
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Consolidates processed audio into a new single continuous file |
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What does the process mode do? |
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Defines mode of analysis for certain processes |
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What is the MIDI Resolution in pro tools? |
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What does the regions view do? |
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Allows you to move MIDI data in chunks |
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What does the velocity veiw allow you to do? |
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Edit Note on velocities as well as the notes themselves |
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What does the velocity veiw allow you to do? |
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Edit Note on velocities as well as the notes themselves |
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By default how many controllers are listed in the controllers view? |
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MIDI editing is usually __________ |
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What does the velocity veiw allow you to do? |
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Edit Note on velocities as well as the notes themselves |
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What exceptional behaviors does the grabber exhibit when working with MIDI? |
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Lasso can grab any note it touches, and in shuffle mode grabber does not include time, so shuffle behaves like slip |
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Can you trim Midi regions longer than their original length? |
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What does the pencil tool allow you to do? |
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Which pencil tool allows you to draw a series of notes? |
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How do you add copied notes to your existing data? |
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What does Grid/Groove Quantize do? |
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Conforms timing of MIDI events to a defined grid |
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What does restore performance do? |
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Reverts all selected MIDI notes to their original state |
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What does Flatten Performance do? |
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Creates a new restore state for specified note attributes |
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All tracks are merged to a single track, used for internet streaming |
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Standard MIDI file that preserves track structure |
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What two types of tracks are required to hear your Midi Instruments? |
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A midi track and an Aux Track |
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What track simplifies the process by combining a MIDI and Aux track? |
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To use the click plug in the Click output should be set to ______. |
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The number of bars clicked before playback or recording begins |
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What is the default MIDI record mode? |
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What is the Non Destructive MIDI record mode? |
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What is the catch when loop recording with MIDI merge? |
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It is not loop record it is loop playback |
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Can MIDI tracks be armed during recording? |
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Audio is recorded and played back at _______ accuracy, MIDI information is recorded and played back at _______ accuracy |
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How do you insert a tempo change? |
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Control Click the tempo ruler |
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What state does the conductor button have to be in to insert tempo changes? |
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Allows real time streaming of Audio, MIDI, Tempo, and Transport between programs |
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How many data streams per program does Rewire allow? |
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What are the three ways to "Bounce" MIDI? |
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Record to an Audio Track, Bounce and Import, or Bounce with Audio |
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What does a CD's logical format specify? |
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Valid data types and player behaviors |
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What does a CD's physical format specify? |
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Disk construction and playback mechanism |
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What type of data does a Red Book CD hold? |
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44.1KHz, 16 Bit, Stereo PCM Audio |
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Up to _____ Minutes and _____ Seconds can be stored on a red book CD |
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How much storage space does a CD ROM have? |
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Why do CD ROMS hold less Data than CD-DA's? |
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Because CD ROM's have more error correction |
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What is the difference in performance between a manufactured disk and a burned disk? |
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Burned disks instead of physical pits and lands are using dye making it more ambiguous of a signal |
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Between Interleaving and parity how many consecutive errors can be corrected? |
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What is Disc At Once Authoring? |
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All Disc Data is written in one pass |
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What is Track at Once Authoring? |
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Written Track by track giving no control over the gaps |
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What is Session at Oce Authoring? |
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Session written in one pass, but multiple sessions can be written on a single disk |
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Irregular Pit Geometry causes ________ which degrades the signal. |
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Burning at __________ will help alleviate some pit geometry problems. |
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