Section 1

Question 1

What is a quick way to find information regarding troubleshooting problems in Pro Tools?

Answer 1

Search the PDFs provided in-house.

Question 2

What is the playback engine?

Answer 2

The device you choose through which the music is played back to you, whether digital or hardware.

Question 3

What is the difference in available playback engines between Mac and Windows in the pro tools software.

Answer 3

Mac comes with Pro Tools Aggregate I/O playback engine when you download Pro Tools! With windows it is necessary to download the driver separately.

Question 4

What is the Hardware Buffering Size?

Answer 4

The number of samples the CPU passes to and from the I/O in one go.

Question 5

What are the consequences of choosing a larger or smaller buffer size?

Answer 5

Larger buffer sizes increase latency and cause the program to be less responsive as the buffer has to be filled before it can be transmitted, but it also frees up processing power for other tasks. Smaller buffer sizes are more demanding on a computer, and reduce the amount of processing power the computer can simultaneously on plugins, and obviously have lower latency.

Question 6

What is not effective in terms of host processor settings?

Answer 6

Jacking them all the way up for Pro Tools, because other applications will run slowly within Pro Tools (ask Joe)?

Question 7

What is the CPU Usage Limit?

Answer 7

The CPU Usage limit allocates resources from your CPU to host based tasks in Pro Tools. Do not set this too high, or it takes away from other computer functions and will actually result in slower response times

Question 8

What is the Delay Compensation Engine? What is it measured in? What are the four settings?

Answer 8

The delay compensation Engine compensates for Delay introduced into your Pro Tools System? None, Short (1023 at 48kHz), Long (4095 at 48kHZ), Maximum (16,383 samples at 48k Hz)

Question 9

What ultimately causes latency?

Answer 9

Converting Analog Signals into Digital Signals that can be handled by a computer and back again. That’s a process.

Question 10

What is the plug-in streaming buffer size?

Answer 10

The plugin streaming buffer size determines how much memory is allocated by the digidesign audio engine for streaming files with samples being used in “Structure”, the sampling software that has been scaled down to a “free” version that comes with Pro Tools. There is no need to change this setting unless an error has occurred.

Question 11

What are the seven settings in pro tools that you should review in the reference guide to optimize for your personal use?

Answer 11

Display, Operation, Editing, Mixing, Processing, MIDI, Synchronization

Question 12

What are the two main windows you can view in pro tools?

Answer 12

The Edit and Mix Windows.

Question 13

What are the four mode buttons in the Edit tool bar? What do each one of them do?

Answer 13

Shuffle - this mode allows to edit, paste, and move clips however and is dependent on other clips in your session. Meaning that clips will condense the space forward (in time meaning closer the the beginning of your session)

Slip - Place anywhere on the channel strip timeline

Spot - When moving a clip in spot mode, a dialogue box appears asking for the specific place on the timeline you want your clip placed

Grid - (absolute) allows to move clips to set values on the timeline (relative) allows to move clips relative to their starting position in predetermined chunks

Question 14

How to the zoom buttons work in the toolbar?

Answer 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iZf0ekOIA There you go you fuck.

Question 15

What are the modes on the zoomer? What happens if you hold option/alt key while clicking?

Answer 15

Normal Mode and Single Mode (mess around). You zoom out!

Question 16

What is the trimmer? What are the variations?

Answer 16

The trimmer is a quick way to shorten or lengthen a clip. Time Compression Expansion and Loop. Play with it.

Question 17

What is the selector tool?

Answer 17

It allows you to select and highlight regions.

Question 18

What does the grabber tool do?

Answer 18

It allows to select entire clips.

Question 19

What does the scrubber tool do?

Answer 19

You can hold the scrubber tool over a selection of Audio moving it forward and backward, and audio will play accordingly at the speed your moving the tool.

Question 20

What is the Pencil Tool?

Answer 20

The Pencil tool gives the User ability to draw in a number of different parameters including things like waveform editing, tempo editing, and automation editing.

Question 21

What is the Pencil Tool?

Answer 21

The Pencil tool gives the User ability to draw in a number of different parameters including things like waveform editing, tempo editing, and automation editing.

Question 22

What is Pre/Post Roll?

Answer 22

The amount that it counts you in and on the beat

Question 23

What is the Online button?

Answer 23

For syncing an external transport to Pro Tools.

Question 24

FF/RW/Play/Stop/Record

Answer 24

Tapedeck Simulators

Question 25

Counter?

Answer 25

Mirrors the selection counter in your counter in your counters and edit selection windows to the left.

Question 26

Indicators?

Answer 26

The top indicator flashes is armed red when any track in your session is ready to record. The bottom indicator turns green when your track is on input only.

Question 27

What is the Track List?

Answer 27

Shows all the tracks in session, the track type, allows you to hide and make tracks inactive.

Question 28

What is the Group List?

Answer 28

Grouping is a tracking and mixing tool that allows you to group tracks in a session together. Groups can be made inactive.

Question 29

Timebase and conductor Rules?

Answer 29

This area is fully customizable (by right clicking the drop down menu) and shows the time values associated with your session. Other features like tempo editing are available from this section as well.

Question 30

What is universe view?

Answer 30

Visual Mock up of the entire session.

Question 31

Clip List?

Answer 31

All clips of all types that are recorded, imported, or created by editing appear in the clip list. Items can be dragged from the list to tracks and be arranged in any order.