The Characters of Waveforms
(wave)Form Over Function
The Digital Age
Can You Hear Me?
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 an FX return or destination for a submix. 

What is an Aux Input track?

100

This is represented by the frequency range of 20 - 20,000 hertz. 

What is the range of human hearing?

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 is the area of study devoted to the brain's interpretation of sound.

What is psychoacoustics?

300

This type of device or bodily organ converts energy from one form (mechanical/acoustic) to another (electric/analog)

What is a transducer?

300

This is the domain that audio signal flowing through a mixing console exists in.

What is the analog (electrical) domain?

300

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?

300

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This is how we categorized sounds that reach 140dB or above.

400

This waveform characteristic measures the amount of pressure created during sound wave propagation.

What is Amplitude?

400

Measured in degrees, this is the way that we measure the oscillation of a sound wave from positive to negative air pressure.

What is phase?

400

When using the Import Audio dialogue box, this button will reference the audio file’s original location and does not move it into the session’s audio files folder.

What is the Add button?

400

This is a spiral-shaped organ in your ear that contains tiny hairs which produce nerve impulses in response to certain frequencies.

What is the cochlea?

500

These types of waveforms account for virtually all naturally occurring sounds.

What is a complex waveform?

500

Waveforms propagate through the process of compression and _________.

What is rarefaction?

500

This is the number of MIDI channels that can be sent over a single MIDI cable. 

What is 16?

500

This phenomenon indicates that humans are less sensitive to low and high range frequencies at lower listening levels.




What is the Fletcher-Munson Curve (Equal loudness contours)?