Digital Audio Quiz One

Question 1

What is a down beat?

Answer 1

Beat 1

Question 2

Labeling sections of a song can help organize things so that when we start editing, we can make clean cuts at certain sections. Why is it important not to mark sections according to the vocals?

Answer 2

sometimes the vocals have a pick up an dent start on the downbeat

Question 3

what are the two different types of rulers in pro tools?

Question 4

What does the tab to transient do? how does it help when putting markers in?

Answer 4

It takes you to the nearest transient. it helps you mark correctly at the beginning of a song section.

Question 5

explain the difference between hitting enter on the keyboard and hitting enter on the number pad.

Answer 5

Enter on the keyboard takes you back to the beginning of the track and enter on the number pad drops a marker.

Question 6

how do you color code your markers?

Question 7

[.]+[memorylock number]+[.]

Answer 7

recall memory location marker

Question 8

enter on number pad

Answer 8

drop marker

Question 9

command +5 on num pad

Answer 9

memory location window

Question 10

given a sample rate of 96khz how many samples are taken in one minute?

Answer 10

96000*60

Question 11

what is the nyquist theorem and how does it relate to digital audio.

Answer 11

the sampling rate has to be at least twice the highest frequency in order to be accurately reproduced.

Question 12

what is the highest frequency you can record if the sample rate is 8khz

Answer 12

4khz

Question 13

what is the difference between dynamic range and signal to noise ratio?

Answer 13

dynamic range is the softest to loudest frequency heard and signal to noise is what you want to hear vs what you dont

Question 14

how much hard drive space is taken up by 5 minutes of uncompressed, stereo, 24bit, 44.1 kHz audio?

Answer 14

3004410024*2/8

Question 15

how many decibels of dynamic range are provided by each bit and what is the total dynamic range of a 20 bit recording?

Answer 15

120

Question 16

what is an SSD (what does is stand for and what does it mean)

Answer 16

it holds information to take from computer to computer. its safe storage. Solid State Drive. it means it have no moving disc

Question 17

describe a situation when you need more than 2 outputs

Question 18

what so A/D and D/A converters do?

Answer 18

switch analogue to digital and vice versa

Question 19

what is a mic pre and what does it do in an audio interface?

Answer 19

brings signal up to line level

Question 20

what is the standard file format when working in pro tools?

Answer 20

wav

Question 21

why do we want to check “interleaved” when working in pro tools?

Answer 21

make sure audio is coming from L and R

Question 22

what is latency and how do we control the amount of latency in pro tools? when would you want to have the sampling set to a low number?

Answer 22

buff size. low when recording

Question 23

5 types of tracks you can create?

Answer 23

midi, instrument, aux input, audio, master fader

Question 24

what is the .ptx file?

Answer 24

project folder.

Question 25

x and y planes stand for?

Answer 25

x= time y=amplitude

Question 26

in pro tools what is a clip

Answer 26

portion of audio

Question 27

what is a transient

Answer 27

big wave at the beginning of a musical phrase

Question 28

what does the link timeline and edit selection do

Question 29

what does the insertion follows playback button do?

Question 30

command + O

Answer 30

open a session

Question 31

shift, command, N

Answer 31

create a new track

Question 32

command N

Answer 32

create a new session

Question 33

shift, command, w

Answer 33

close current session

Question 34

command +=

Answer 34

toggle mix and edit window

Question 35

spacebar

Answer 35

play/stop

Question 36

return

Answer 36

move playhead to session window

Question 37

command [ ]

Answer 37

zoom in and out

Question 38

command 1 on number pad

Answer 38

transport bar

Question 39

option click

Answer 39

do to all, select all, deselect all

Question 40

what is the difference between add and convert?

Answer 40

add tells protools where to find the file. convert adds it to the audio files

Question 41

when importing audio there is two places to put audio. one is on a new track. what is the other destination and what is an advantage?

Question 42

describe how to use manually find and relink?

Answer 42

you go in a select which files to find and manually add them back into the file

Question 43

what feature can you use to find the real link?

Question 44

how can you use the clip list to find the missing files.

Question 45

shift command I

Answer 45

import audio

Question 46

what is non destructive editing and why is it helpful

Answer 46

it allows you to trim and but you can always to go back to your original work

Question 47

how is duplicate different from copy and paste?

Answer 47

duplicate adds it right at the end of the section. You can copy and paste everywhere

Question 48

four edit modes in pro tools

Answer 48

grid, slip, shuffle, spot

Question 49

how is shuffle mode unique

Question 50

how are playlists used in protools

Answer 50

save multiple copies

Question 51

what allows you to restore the original

Answer 51

trim tool

Question 52

command c

Answer 52

copy

Question 53

command p

Answer 53

paste

Question 54

command x

Answer 54

cut

Question 55

command D

Answer 55

duplicate

Question 56

command z

Answer 56

undo

Question 57

command E

Answer 57

split

Question 58

command F

Answer 58

fade

Question 59

esc

Answer 59

tab through edit tools

Question 60

option 4

Answer 60

grid mode

Question 61

option2

Answer 61

slip mode

Question 62

command

Answer 62

suspend edit mode

Question 63

shift option 3

Answer 63

consolidate

Question 64

what is a decibel measuring

Question 65

which perimeter in mix window is tied to decibels

Question 66

what does DBFS stand for and what does it mean to in relation to what our meters show us

Answer 66

decibel full scale

Question 67

how do you delete a memory marker location

Answer 67

delete or pull it down

Question 68

3 tools in tool bar and how to connect them

Answer 68

trimmer, grabber, and selector and you click on the bar above them

Question 69

consolidating?

Answer 69

turn clips into one