The Characters of Waveforms
(wave)Form Over Function
The Digital Age
Session
100
Direct sounds, early reflections, and reverberations help inform a listener’s ________.
What is sense of space?
100
This waveform characteristic is measured in cycles per second
What is frequency?
100
This track type allows you to route audio through your session without recording it. It can be used as a click track, FX return, or destination for a subgroup/submix.
What is an Aux Input track?
100
This sample rate and bit depth are used for a CD quality mix.
What is 44.1khz (sample rate) and 16bit (bit depth).
200
A logarithmic value that expresses the difference in intensities between two levels.
What are decibels?
200
This word is used to describe the way we perceive the harmonic content of a sound.
What is timbre?
200
This is the standard audio file format that Pro Tools uses and does not require conversion to be used in a session
What is a wav?
200
This tool can be used to add, move, or delete an automation breakpoint.
What is the grabber tool?
300
This is a spiral-shaped organ in your ear that contains tiny hairs which produce nerve impulses in response to certain frequencies.
300
Waveforms propagate through the process of compression and _________.
What is rarefaction?
300
Inside of Pro Tools, this is how you adjust the output volume of a track.
What is a (volume) fader?
300
Inserts on this track type are always post-fader.
What is a Master Fader?
400
This type of device or bodily organ converts energy from one form (mechanical/acoustic) to another (electric/analog)
What is a transducer?
400
This is how we describe the relative phase of the two waveforms depicted:
What is out of phase? (reverse polarity)
400
This type of track can be used to write MIDI data and route audio signals generated by a virtual instrument for monitoring and playback purposes.
What is an Instrument track?
400
This automation mode starts recording automation changes to a track soon as a parameter is touched or adjusted and stops writing after the parameter is released.
What is touch mode?
500
This waveform characteristic measures the amount of pressure created during sound wave propagation.
What is Amplitude?
500
An audio cable carrying a signal from a microphone to a mixing console exists in the this "domain".
What is the analog (electrical) domain?
500
When this setting is enabled, the edit cursor will jump to the next MIDI note (or audio waveform) to the right.
What is Tab to Transient button?
500
This may contain velocity information, note duration, and pitch information for a note or performance but does not contain any audio itself.
What is MIDI data?