Week 6

Question 1

MIDI

Answer 1

Musical Instrument digital interface. A protocol / set or agreed standards that allow for electronic instruments such as keyboards, controllers, computers and other elctronic equipment to communicate, control, and synchronise with eachother.

Question 2

Mixer

Answer 2

A device that combines and controls audio signals from other equipment.

Question 3

Mixing

Answer 3

The process of balancing, panning, processing and adding effects to a number of live signals or recorded tracks.

Question 4

Monitor

Answer 4

Equipment used to listen to live or recorded signals from a recorder or mixer. Also a loudspeaker with built-in amplification.

Question 5

Mono

Answer 5

An abbreviation of ‘monoaural’, meaning only one audio signal. With mono playback there is no sense of left or right placement of sounds. A small radio with one loudspeaker is an example of a mono device.

Question 6

Multi-track recorder

Answer 6

A device that can record a number of audio inputs separately and play back some tracks while recording others.

Question 7

Normalisation

Answer 7

The process used to increase the level of a digital recording. During normalisation, the computer processor finds the loudest samples and calculates the difference between them and the highest possible level. The difference is then added to all samples, bringing everything up as high as possible without peaking.

Question 8

Pan

Answer 8

An abbreviaton of ‘panorama’. THe apparent placement of sounds from left to right. Usually achieved by distributing a signal between left and right loudspeakers.