Quiz2

Question 1

How do you determine the tempo of a piece of music?

Answer 1

1. Use a stopwatch. Time 11 beats.
2. Repeat this timing 3 times and then take the average timings.
3. Take the number and multiply it by 100 to get MPB
4. divide 60,000 by your number and the result is the tempo in beats per minute. BPM

Question 2

Editing full mixes

Answer 2

Editing the entire music track

Question 3

Editing splits/stems

Answer 3

Editing the music with flexibility since you can edit individual instruments/sections

Question 4

The first thing you do in music editing

Answer 4

Listen a couple of times

Seperating regions with CMD-E

Question 5

Second step in music editing

Answer 5

Roughly cut piece them together

Question 6

3rd step in music editing

Answer 6

Glue
Use very slim cross fades
Always edit on nondownbeats (2-4)

Question 7

How to cross fade

Answer 7

select the two regions of audio
Then CMD-F

Options:
Out shape
Link for equal power gain
In shape
Dither option
View option. (Left, right, both)
Waveform view options
Zoom options
Audition playback

Question 8

Equal gain

Answer 8

Cross fades use a linear fade. Which is good when cross fading between two regions that are phase coherent.

Question 9

Equal power

Answer 9

Cross fades use a logarithmic fade and have a raised center point

Question 10

Ways to end the edit

Answer 10

Reverb on beat
Delay out
Reverse piano & delay out
Tempo and pitch change
Ew thin out and fade

Question 11

Why do we music edit?

Answer 11

In order to fit the length of the spot or scene