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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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