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Five main functions of pro tools
audio, midi, notation, mixing, post-production
Avid's Peripheral Hardware companies
Digidesign (pro)
M-audio, aquired in 2004 (consumer)
When we hear a sound, what do we actually perceive?
variations of the air pressure
When an object moves one cycle in a back and forth motion what has it created
an auditory event
What do we call the rate of auditory events?
Hertz or cycles per second (CPS)
What is the range of human hearing in Hertz?
20-20,000 Hertz
How do we percieve changes in cycles per seconds?
pitch
Avid's Notation company
Sibelius
waveform
the shape of the cycle of compression and rarefaction
1000 Hertz (abreviation)
1 kilohertz (kHz)
amplitude
the intensity of the wave; the higher the anplitude the greater variation between the compression
and the vacuum of rarefaction.
How is amplitude measured?
decibels (dB)
what does 0 bB represent?
the threshold of hearing