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Command for Paste
What is CMD + V
Command to Save
What is CMD+S
Command to create New session
What is CMD+N
This is the CD standard for audio resolution
What is 16 bit, 44.1 kHz
This is the film standard for audio resolution
What is 48 kHz, 24 bit
MIDI stands for this
What is Musical Instrument Digital Interface
This is how to change the name of a track in pro tools
What is double click the name of the track OR right click and select rename (boring and slow)
These connectors can carry balanced audio
(3 answers)
What is XLR
What is TRS
What is TT/Bantam
This chord is represented by 6-
What is minor 6 chord
Command for Toggle mix/edit window
What is CMD =
Command to copy
What is CMD+C
Command to Record/Punch
(2 answers)
What is NumPad 3 or CMD+Space
This tool allows analog audio to be recorded digitally and played back in the studio
What is Analog to digital (ADC) or digital to analog (DAC)
Bit depth affects this part of the audio
What is Dynamic range
This is ADR
What is Automated Dialog Replacement
This is the name of the puffy cover for a shotgun mic
What is Dead Cat
MIDI merge allows this
What is recording new information along with the old without overwriting any performance data
In NNS, it is assumed we are in this key scale
What is Major scale
Command for Start/stop playback
(2 answers)
What is Space bar OR NumPad 0
Command to undo
What is CMD+Z
Command to create new track
What is SHIFT+CMD+N
This is the highest sample rate available is typical pro audio
What is 192 kHz
Sample rate affects this part of the audio
What is frequency range
This is Foley
What is re-creating sound effects in sync with the picture
This is "comping"
What is a compilation of multiple performance takes into a master playlist
Dialog is sometimes re-recorded after filming for these reasons
What is On set noise, improved performance/tone, ambience control, equipment failure on set, or script rewrites
F sharp is also this
What is G flat
Command to Nudge
(2 answers)
What is Comma/Period OR +/-
Command to fade
What is CMD+F or F
Command to toggle click
What is NumPad 7
These forms of digital audio are lossless
(3 answers)
What is WAV
What is AIFF
What is FLAC
Dither is defined as this
What is and intentionally applied form of noise used to randomized quantization error
These formats of digital audio are lossy
What is MP3
What is MP4
This is a Word Clock
What is a digital sample rate synchronization reference
This is the pin layout on an XLR
What is 1-Ground, 2-Positive, 3-Negative
This is the Major scale pattern in intervals
What is W, W, 1/2, W, W, W, 1/2
Command to create memory locations
What is ENTER (NumPad)
Command to create group
What is CMD+G
Command to Break clip
(2 answers)
What is CMD+E or B
PCM audio is this (not done)
What is Pulse Code Modulation (PCM audio) - the format
Aliasing is defined as this
What is when digital audio conversion creates artifacts (distortion) while attempting to convert frequencies above the Nyquist point
Anti-Aliasing filter is defined as this
What is a low pass filter which removes any audio above the Nyquist point (1/2 the sample rate)
The Nyquist Theorem states this
what is the sample rate must be at least 2x the highest recorded frequency
This is the pin layout on TRS
What is Tip-positive, Ring-Negative, Sleeve-Ground
This is the minor scale in intervals
What is W, 1/2, W, W, 1/2, W, W
Command to playhead to session beginning
What is RETURN
Command to consolidate clip
What is SHIFT+OPT+3
Command for event opperations
What is OPT+0
This is the Pro Tools Disc Allocation Menu
What is disc allocation specifies where you want newly recorded audio files to be stored
Delay compensation does this in Pro Tools
What is maintains phase coherent time alignment between tracks that have plug ins and routing paths with different delays
The task manager shows this
What is a utility for viewing and managing all of the background tasks that you initiate with pro tools, such as searching for missing files or rendering elastic or ARA editing
The H/W buffer size setting does this
What is allows the audio processing to be delayed for more processing power, or shortened for lower latency
more buffer = more power/more latency
less buffer = less power/less latency
This is the difference between real-time plugin inserts and AudioSuite plugins
What is real time plugin inserts live on a mixer channel, and can be tweaked or automated throughout the session
AudioSuite plugins render a new file in a one time process, and cannot be tweaked or automated later
The diamond in the Nashville number system represents this
What is sustained for four beats