Ch. 1-4 Midterm

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Voiced tracks

Back 1

Tracks that can be played simultaneously

Front 2

Standard pro tools voiced track count?

Back 2

128

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Pro tools HD native voiced track count?

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256

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Pro tools HDX voiced track count?

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768

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What are three ways to free a track's voice?

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1. Set the track's voice selector to off

2. Remove all of the track's output and send assignments

3. Deactivate the track

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What does deactivating a track do?

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It frees any DSP or CPU resources, or voices used by the track.

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What are the 4 ways to deactivate a track?

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1. Right click the track name and choose MAKE INACTIVE

2. Select the track and choose TRACK > MAKE INACTIVE

3. Click and hold on the track type icon and select MAKE INACTIVE

4. Control command click on the track type icon

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What is the disk allocation window?

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It lets you assign each track in a session to a specific directory location on a hard drive.

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How do you open up the disk allocation window?

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SETUP > DISK ALLOCATION

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How do you change the disk allocation for an audio track?

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1. Open up the disk allocation window

2. Click and hold on the track's root media folder

3. Choose the hard drive you want to record to or choose a specific folder location on a drive by choosing select folder

4. Click ok

Front 11

What three disk allocation options for new tracks are available?

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1. Custom allocation options

2. Create subfolders for audio, video, and fade files

3. Use round robin allocation for new tracks

Front 12

What are the two scrolling options discussed in this chapter? Explain each.

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1. Continuous- the edit window's contents scroll continuously past the playback cursor which remains in the center of the window. This scrolling option is based on the time line selection.

2. Center playhead- the edit window's contents scroll continuously past the playhead, which is a thick blue line in the center of the edit window. This scrolling option is independent and not based on anything.

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What are the five ways to move the timeline location/playhead to a new location?

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1. Scroll the edit window to relocate it

2. Click on the timebase ruler at the desired point

3. Type a location into the main counter

4. Type a location into the edit selection start field in the edit window with link timeline and edit selection enabled

5. Type a location into the timeline selection start field in the transport window

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What are the three ways to scroll a track into view?

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1. RIGHT-CLICK on a track in the mix window, edit window, or track list and choose SCROLL INTO VIEW

2.CONTROL SHIFT CLICK on the track's nameplate in the active window

3. CONTROL SHIFT CLICK on the track name in the track list

Front 15

The color palette window allows you to change the color of what?

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1. Tracks

2. Groups

3. Clips

4. Clips in the clip list

5. Markers

Front 16

What are the steps to display marker colors?

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1. Choose SETUP > PREFERENCES

2. Click on the DISPLAY tab

3. In the color coding section, select ALWAYS DISPLAY MARKER COLORS

4. Click ok

Front 17

What are the two data online indicators? Explain them both.

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1. Timeline data online status indicator- this indicator is green when all audio features used on an active track playlists are available for playback. If files are offline or being processed, the indicator is red

2. Session data online status indicator- this indicator is green when all audio files referenced by the session are available for playback. If files are offline or being processed, the indicator is red

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What does the delay compensation indicator do?

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It changes appearance based on the state of delay compensation for the session and is displayed when delay compensation is enabled. When the total delay of the delay compensation engine is exceeded, it will turn red.

Front 19

What do the sync status indicators do?

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They provide graphic indicators in the edit and transport windows for video reference, sync lock, and speed calibration.

Front 20

What are the 5 main uses for duplicating a track?

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1. Quickly setting up new tracks for additional takes with the same track settings

2. Creating alternate versions of a vocal

3. Adding vocal doubles and applying a pitch shifting plug-in to slightly detune the doubled track

4. Creating a harmony by using elastic audio pitch transposition

5. Adding another layer of the same audio with different or additional processing

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What are the steps in duplicating a track?

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1. Select the track

2. Choose TRACK > DUPLICATE or press OPTION SHIFT D

3. Configure the options

4. Click ok

Front 22

What does the commits track function do?

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It enables you to quickly render the output of a track and place the rendered audio on a new track automatically, which frees up processing resources

Front 23

What are 2 ways to commit a track?

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1. Select the track and choose TRACK > COMMIT

2. Right-click on the track nameplate and choose COMMIT

Front 24

How would you go about partially committing a track?

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Right click on the last plug in that you want to include and select COMMIT UP TO THIS INSERT

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what are the 6 available options in the commit tracks dialog box?

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1. Commit

2. Consolidate clips

3. Render automation

4. Copy

5. Insert after last selected track

6. Source tracks

Front 26

When working on a set of tracks, how would you give another engineer some other tracks to work on simultaneously?

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Export tracks as a new session

Front 27

How would you go about bouncing a track?

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1. Select the tracks you want to bounce

2. Choose TRACK > BOUNCE or press OPTION COMMAND SHIFT B

3. Configure the options

4. Click bounce

Front 28

How would you go about exporting a track as a new session?

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1. Select the tracks you want to export

2. Choose FILE > EXPORT > SELECTED TRACKS AS NEW SESSION

3. configure the settings

4. Click ok

Front 29

How many total voiced audio tracks in standard pro tools? Pro tools HD native? Pro tools HDX?

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1. 128

2. 256

3. 768 (256 per card)

Front 30

Total audio tracks allowed in a session in standard pro tools? All pro tools HD software?

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1. 128

2. 768

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Aux input tracks in standard pro tools? All pro tools HD software?

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1. 128

2. 512

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Instrument and midi tracks in standard pro tools and all pro tools HD software?

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512

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Video tracks in standard pro tools? All pro tools HD software?

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1. 1

2. 64

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Total I/O capacity in standard pro tools and pro tools HD without HD software? Pro tools HD native? Pro tools HDX?

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1. 32

2. 64

3. 192

Front 35

HD native hardware uses a FPGA, which stands for what?

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Field programmable gate array

Front 36

What are the four optional components for a pro tools system?

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1. HDX card

2. Additional audio interfaces such has the OMNI, I/O, or MADI

3. Preamps

4. SYNC HD

Front 37

Amount of channels of analog input, analog output, and supports sample rates up to what?

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4, 8, and 192 kHz

Front 38

What three configurations are available for the HD I/O?

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1. 8x8x8

2. 16x16 analog in and out

3. 16x16 digital in and out

Front 39

Definition, amount of channels, supports sample rates up to what for the HD MADI?

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Provides simplified connectivity between a pro tools HD system and MADI compatible audio equipment, 64 channels, 192 kHz

Front 40

Which system pro tools software uses a host based 64-bit floating-point mixer? Which pro tools software uses a DSP-based mixer?

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1. HD Native

2. HDX

Front 41

What provides a high speed data path to and from HD-series audio interfaces, which allows for extremely small buffering between the I/O and the host computer, and also provides a low-latency mixer path inside the HD native hardware itself?

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The FPGA

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32 bit floating point sign, mantissa, and exponent

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1 bit, 23 bits, 8 bits

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64 bit floating point sign, mantissa, and exponent

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1 bit, 52 bits, 11 bits

Front 44

Changes to hardware setup configurations are stored on your what?

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On your system

Front 45

Displaying audio interface inputs and outputs, configuring input and output routing, configuring, setting the clock source, setting the default sample rate are all options of what devices?

Back 45

HD OMNI AND HD I/O

Front 46

What button allows you to select the appropriate output option for your monitoring configuration?

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The TRS mirrors radio button

Front 47

What button allows you to select the appropriate output level for each of the eight analog output channels?

Back 47

The reference level radio button

Front 48

What button allows you to select the digital format option for any installed digital I/O cards?

Back 48

The digital format button

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What button allows you to apply sample rate conversion to digital input channels?

Back 49

The sample rate conversion radio button

Front 50

The current engine, hardware buffer size, disk playback cache size, viewing system usage are all settings of what?

Back 50

The playback engine

Front 51

What are the five meters is the system usage window dialog box?

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CPU meter, voices allocated meter, disk meter, disk cache meter, and memory meter.

Front 52

What provides a graphical representation of the signal routing for the current pro tools system?

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The I/O setup dialog box

Front 53

What is a logical grouping of multiple inputs, outputs, or busses that has a single name and channel format?

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A signal path

Front 54

Path type tabs, input and output selectors, path name column, expand/collapse triangles, active/inactive checkboxes, path format selector, channel grid, path tools, show last saved setup are controls in what setup?

Back 54

The I/O setup

Front 55

What selector specifies which output or bus paths are represented by the output meters in the edit window toolbar and transport window?

Back 55

The output meter path

Front 56

Which selector can set the default monitoring path for previewing audio in the clip list, fades dialog box, audiosuite plug ins, and workspace browsers?

Back 56

Audition paths

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Which selector can set a default output bus assignment or internal mix bus path assignment for new tracks?

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The default output bus

Front 58

Paths can be customized in what 5 ways?

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1. New paths can be created

2. Existing paths can be renamed

3. Existing paths can be remapped

4. Paths can be activated or deactivated

5. Paths can be deleted

Front 59

What allows you to record with an extremely small amount of monitoring latency?

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Low latency monitoring

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Where do you enable or disable low latency monitoring?

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The output page of the I/O setup

Front 61

To actually use low latency monitoring, where do you have to enable it for tracks?

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Options > low latency monitoring

Front 62

What provides a means of storing and recalling the display of windows in your session, as well as the Internal configurations of the edit, mix, transport, Midi editor, and score editor windows?

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Window configurations

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How many window configurations will pro tools allowed to be stored?

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99

Front 64

Window layout radio button, include edit, mix, targeted midi editor, score editor, and transport display settings checkbox, window display settings pop-up menu are all settings included in what?

Back 64

In window configurations

Front 65

What meter provides default pro tools Metering and has a 0 sample integration time and shows all dynamic activity of the digital signal at every moment in time?

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Sample peak

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Provides legacy pro tools scale and metering ballistics

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Pro tools classic

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Provides direct one to one linear metering of sample peaks in the audio signal, with a metering range down to -40dB

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Linear

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provides metering ballistics that display the average loudness over a range of time

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RMS (root mean square)

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provides metering that emulates the response of a VU pin meter, with the upper 50% of the meter covering a 6dB range, from -3 dB to +3 dB

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VU

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Has a similar integration time to sample peak metering with different scales and decay times

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PPM digital (peak programme meter)

Front 71

What setting determines which dynamics processing plug ins will display in gain reduction meters?

Back 71

Gain reduction meter type settings

Front 72

Compressor/limiter only, expander/gate only, priority compressor/limiter, priority expander/gate, all-summed are what kind of options?

Back 72

Gain reduction meter type options

Front 73

All display preferences are global, except for four of them

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1. Edit window default length

2. Always display marker colors

3. Default track color coding options

4. Default clip color coding options

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Edit window default length, always display marker colors, show dashboard window when pro tools starts are settings of what?

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The display preferences page

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All operation preferences are global, except for five of them

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1. Custom shuttle lock speed

2. Custom FF/REW speed

3. Back/forward amount

4. PEC/Direct style input monitoring

5. Destructivepunch file length

Front 76

What provides an intuitive user interface for navigating the files and folders available on your pro tools system and also includes many file management tasks such as searching, auditioning, relinking, and importing files?

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Workspace browsers

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The four focus locations available in any workspace browser are:

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1. Volume locations

2. Session files

3. Catalog locations

4. User locations

Front 78

When focused on what, the workspace browser provides file management for local and network volumes.

Back 78

Volume focus

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When focused on what, the workspace browser provides a single view for all the files referenced in the session, regardless of where they are stored, as well as powerful search and management tools.

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Session focus

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When focused on what, the workspace browser lets you search and manage files that have been organized into that catalog.

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Catalog focus

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When focused on what, the workspace browser provides quick access to commonly used locations in the user's home directory.

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User focus

Front 82

What kind of search allows you to search files and volumes by specific categories?

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An advanced search

Front 83

Pro tools databases use two file types. What are they?

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1. Workspace.wksp

2. Wavecache.wfm

Front 84

What is the process of extracting the metadata from media files and storing the information in a searchable database?

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Indexing

Front 85

Which method of relinking is most useful when you have just a few files to relink?

Back 85

Find all candidates

Front 86

What relinking method is most useful when you have many missing files to relink?

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Find links