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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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