Pro Tools 101 Study Guide| Complete Questions Answered 100% Correctly

Pro Tools 101 Study Guide| Complete Questions Answered 100% Correctly What is a Waveform? - A visual representation of the "shape" of the sound What is Frequency? - Perceived as the pitch of sound What is the frequency range of human hearing? - 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz (20 kHz) What are the five types of production that Pro Tools can be used for? 1. Audio processing 2. MIDI production 3. Creating notation and scores 4. Mixing and automation 5. Audio for video post production. Just before merging with Avid Technology, the company that developed Pro Tools and its related hardware was called? - Digidesign Avid's free version of Pro Tools is called? - Pro Tools | First Pro Tools | Ultimate was formerly known as? - Pro Tools | HD What is frequency measured in? - Hertz (abbreviated "Hz") What is Analog to Digital conversion? - The process of converting an audio signal into binary information that can be stored, read and manipulated by a computer What is the Nyquist Theorem? - States that in order to produce an accurate representation of a given frequency, each cycle of the sound's vibration must be sampled twice What does Sample Rate affect? - Affects the range of frequencies that can be captured in a recording and the size of the resulting audio file The dynamic range increases by ___ for bit added to the bit depth? - 6 dB - You can estimate the dynamic range capability of a system by multiplying its bit depth by 6. For example, 16-bit x 6 = 96 dB. How can you estimate the dynamic range capability of a system? - By multiplying its bit depth by 6 What are the two types of digital connections used for digital transfer? - S/PDIF (which uses RCA connectors) - AES/EBU (which uses XLR Connectors) Digital Signal Processing is often abbreviated as? - DSP What is the one difference between a Pro Tools system with a USB audio interface and a Pro Tools | HDX system? - The difference is that systems with USB audio interfaces are host-based, while HDX systems are not What happens when you create a Pro Tools session? - The system creates a top-level session folder, various subfolders, and a session file with a .ptx extension What is a WaveCache file?