Pro Tools 110 Certification Daw 1

Front 1

How do you audition regions in the region list?

Back 1

Option-click (mac)
Alt-click (PC)

Front 2

AMS and MSS stand for what? Where can you find them?

Back 2

Audio MIDI Setup, MIDI Setup Studio. Found under SETUP - MIDI - AMS/MSS

Front 3

You have a MIDI track and an AUX track. What is the most crucial step in routing for your MIDI information to see your virtual instrument?

Back 3

The output of the MIDI track needs to be the input of the virtual instrument plug-in on the AUX track.

Front 4

The mix window allows how many views, what are they, and whats the key command to toggle them?

Back 4

2, Normal and narrow, Command + option + M

Front 5

You can sort tracks by all of the following, except?

Name, type, edit group, color, mix group, or voice?

Back 5

Color is not a sorting option.

Front 6

What menu can you change the playback buffer setting?

Back 6

Setup -> Playback Engine

Front 7

How would you set the "default" sample rate for Pro Tools.

Back 7

Close your session but keep Pro Tools open, go to Setup -> Hardware and change the sample rate.

Front 8

Explain Banking on a control/work surface.

Back 8

Banking toggles layers of tracks in sets of 8 accross the surfaces faders.

Front 9

Flip Mode on a control/work surface does what?

Back 9

Flips the faders with sends, plug-ins, or pans (rotary controllers) to allow larger, temporary control with the faders over a smaller parameter.

Front 10

Pro Tools LE provides what upon basic installation?

Back 10

Sample rate: 96 kHz
Bit Depth: 24 bits
Audio tracks: 32
MIDI tracks: 256

Front 11

Where do you find the ability to play a Quicktime DV through firewire?

Back 11

Options -> Video out firewire

Front 12

What is the only thing you cannot do with the workspace browser?

Back 12

Mount volumes.

Front 13

How do you loop preview in the workspace browser?

Back 13

Select loop preview in the drop down tool box menu in the top right of the workspace browser.

Front 14

What will Import Session Data not import?

Back 14

MIDI data.

Front 15

Key commands to Group, UnGroup, and ReGroup regions?

Back 15

Group: Command Option G
UnGroup: Command Option U
ReGroup: Command Option R

Front 16

Key command to open workspace browser?

Back 16

"Option ;" (semi-colon)

Front 17

How many memory locations can you have? How can you tell a marker apart from other types of memory locations?

Back 17

999 memory locations, markers a identified by the diamond shaped gold flag in the memory locations list and marker bar view.

Front 18

Option dragging a time line selection will result in what?

Back 18

The entire selection, start and end, moving as a whole and staying the same length.

Front 19

Option dragging a pre- post- roll selection will result in what?

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The deselected flag will move at an equal and opposite rate as the flag being dragged.

Front 20

Default meter, tempo, and key signature?

Back 20

4/4, 120 bpm, C Maj

Front 21

Click count off options can be found under what menu?

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SETUP!

Front 22

To enable or disable your click, which menu you would go under?

Back 22

Options!

Front 23

Two ways to quantize MIDI recording?

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Input quantize and Step Input Quantize

Front 24

In order for Loop Playback with MIDI merge to work, what do you need to do?

Back 24

Make sure loop record is off.

Front 25

How do you access the takes list?

Back 25

Command click on the region with the selector tool only.

Front 26

What is Pro Tool's only relative time scale for tick-based files?

Back 26

Bars:Beats

Front 27

How many ticks does a quarter note have? An eighth note?

Back 27

1/4=960 ticks
1/8=480 ticks

Front 28

What are the different Elastic Audio Plug-in algorithms? What are they best used for?

Back 28

Polyphonic=Dynamic pitch changing music
Rhythmic=Drums
Monophonic=Solo pieces
Varispeed=acts as a tape machine
X-Form=Best algorithms but destructive and audio suite capable only

Front 29

Two general types of virtual instruments?

Back 29

Plug-in and Stand Alone

Front 30

Three ways to monitor sound from stand-alone virtual instruments?

Back 30

Through pro tools software via ReWire
Through the computer's built in sound compatibilities (Core Audio)
Directly through Digidesign hardware (without pro tools soft ware) (DAE)

Front 31

Is ReWire data stored when you save a Pro Tools session?

Back 31

Hell no, write that shit down!

Front 32

Synchronic has how many parts? Is edit one of them

Back 32

5. No, you cannot edit in Synchronic.

Front 33

Xpand! has how many parts?

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4 parts

Front 34

Hybrid has how many filters?

Back 34

23

Front 35

ReWire allows compatible applications to return how many internal audio streams directly to Pro Tools?

Back 35

64

Front 36

Does ReWire allow for the recording of continuous MIDI info?

Back 36

yes

Front 37

What timebase does audio default to? MIDI?

Back 37

Audio : Samples

MIDI : Ticks

Front 38

Name two different MIDI track views.

Back 38

Regions View and Notes View

Front 39

How do you turn the smart pencil tool into an eraser?

Back 39

Hold option

Front 40

How is custom note duration enabled? How can you tell if its already been enabled?

Back 40

Hold the pencil tool and the last option on the drop down menu will be "Custom note duration." Once enabled a small box will appear under the pencil tool with a quarter note symbol in it.

Front 41

What are your two additional views once Elastic Audio has been enabled on a track.

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Warp and Analysis

Front 42

What are your three Elastic Audio markers?

Back 42

Event markers
Warp markers
Tempo Event-Generated Warp Markers

Front 43

What are your two Real-Time Properties views?

Back 43

Edit window Real-Time Properties view (plug in)
Real-Time Properties floating view (destructive)

Front 44

How would you select contiguous regions? Non-contiguous?

Back 44

Contiguous: Shift click
Non- Contig: Command click

Front 45

If you only wanted the region list to display tracks that were added since the session was most recently opend, what option would you enable?

Back 45

Regions list drop down -> Include Subsequently Added Regions

Front 46

What considerations apply when using fades on Elastic Audio Tracks?

Back 46

Processed elastic audio tracks already come with Microfades.

Front 47

What is the difference between processing a selection region-by-region or as an entire selection?

Back 47

The processor will analyzie and treat the selection based on all the regions' information combined, where as region-by-region processing treats each region in the selection individually.

Front 48

What can you color code in Pro Tools?

Back 48

Tracks, groups, regions, and markers.

Front 49

What is the key command to loop a region? What are your various options in the Region Looping pop up dialog?

Back 49

Command Option L

Number of Loops
Loops Length
Loop Untill the End of Session or Next Region
Enable Crossfades

Front 50

What is the difference between Absolute and Relative Grid modes?

Back 50

Absolute snaps your regions to the grid, relative snaps them relative to the regions original position in the desired grid nudge length.

Front 51

Where can Beat Detective be found?

Back 51

Event menu

Front 52

What are the five Beat Detective modes? Which are Audio specific? Which are Audio and MIDI capable?

Back 52

Bar:Beat Marker Generation (Audio and MIDI)
Groove Template Extraction (Audio and MIDI)
Region Separation (Audio)
Region Conform (Audio)
Edit Smoothing (Audio)

Front 53

What are the five automation modes?

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Off, Read, Write, Touch, Latch

Front 54

What can and can't the grabber tool do with automation breakpoints?

Back 54

It can create, delete, and move them, but it cannot lock them. Break points cannot be locked.

Front 55

How would you duplicate an AUX sends' automation data to the fader automation on the same track?

Back 55

Copy/Paste Special

Front 56

Tell me everything about Inserts.

Back 56

Five inserts
Process top to bottom
Audio and Aux tracks process pre fader
Master tracks process post fader

Front 57

How many types of sends are there? What are they?

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2, Interface and Buss

Front 58

How many sends can you have? What are they?

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10, A thru J

Front 59

By default, what level will an AUX send fader start at upon creation? How can you change this and what to?

Back 59

-INF

In Setup -> Prefrences you can change it to 0dB.

Front 60

Option Shift Click is what?

Back 60

Constrain to selected

Front 61

Looking at an AUX send fader, how can you visual tell if the track is mono or stereo? If the send in mono or stereo?

Back 61

The # of VU meters on the track signifies mono/stereo.

The # of buss sends in the output bath signifies a mono/stereo send.

Front 62

How would you place a track into solo safe mode?

Back 62

Command click the solo button.

Front 63

What are your two main categories of RTAS plug-ins?

Back 63

Gain based (Dynamic)
Time based

Front 64

Dither. When to use it? Important things to remember?

Back 64

Going from a higher bit depth to a lower bit depth.

Only use as the last plug in in the signal chain.

Front 65

How do you create a group?

Back 65

Command G

Front 66

How would you identify an active group? A hidden track?

Back 66

Active groups and showing tracks are highlighted in the track list, the inactive groups and hidden tracks are not.

Front 67

Can the ALL group be edited?

Back 67

No