Pro Tools
What is the minimum requirement for a loop playback selection
0.5 seconds in length.
The recommended sequence for starting a pro tools system is as follows
1. Make sure all your equipment including your computer is off. 2. Turn on any external hard drives that use external power and wait about 10 seconds for them to spin up to speed. 3. Turn on any MIDI interfaces and MID devices ( including and MIDI control surfaces, and synchronization peripherals. 4. Turn on your Audio interface wait at least 15 seconds for the audio interface to initialize. 5. Start your computer 6. Turn on your audio monitoring system
How many tracks can you add at one time on Standard pro tools 11?
128 voice able tracks, 96 simultaneous mon or stereo and up to 512 MIDI tracks.
How many Channels of I/O does Pro tools HDHDX hardware provide up to?
192 Channels of I/O
What is the frequency range of human hearing?
20-20000 HZ or up to 22.05 kHz
PCI, firewire and USB peripherals are available, providing a multitude of interface options for up to how many channels of IO to the system?
32 channels
What is the dynamic range of speech and music considered to be from
40 -105 db
How many MIDI tracks can you have?
512 Midi tracks
The Dynamic Range or signal to quantization noise ratio increase by approximately what for each bit added to the binary word length?
6 dB
How many Channels of I/O does Pro tools HD native hardware provide up to?
64 Channels of I/O
What is Snap to Grid.
A combo mode that allows you make selections based on on the grid while editing in Shuffle, slip, or spot mode
What is a session file?
A session file is document that Pro Tools creates when you start a new project. A session file contains a map of all the tracks, audio and video files, settings, and edits associated your project.
When analog audio signals relayed by microphone, guitar pickup, or other input devices must be digitized, or translated into digital binary numerical information that can be stored read and subsequently manipulated by a computer. what is this process called?
A/D conversion.
What connections are used for digital transfers
AES/EBU SPDIF
What are the two options in Grid mode?
Absolute and Relative.
Supported Avid Peripherals include..
All current Pro Tools audio interfaces, including the Pro Tools Mbox, (third Generation), and Eleven Rack, as well as the discontinued 003 family of audio interfaces.
The 7 different track types are
Audio Tracks, Auxilary inputs, Midi tracks, Instrument tracks, video tracks (hd), VCA masters (hd), master faders
What is the number of bits used to define a value is referred to as what?
Binary word length.
What is another term for Hertz (hz)
CPS cycles per second.
The shortcut to create a new track is
CTRL/command+shift+N
Clip menu....
Clip Menu commands allow you to work with Pro Tools clips. Clips are essentially "pointers" to available audio or MIDI files or file segments. The clip menu includes options for arranging, grouping, looping, quantizing, warping, and otherwise modifying clips and clip settings.
Pro tools HDX hardware systems offers what technology?
DSP hardware and technology to carry out real-time routing, mixing, and processing of audio signals and support for up to 768 simultaneous audio tracks (record and playback) and up to 512 simultaneous MIDI tracks.
Amplitude is measured in
Decibels
How do you rename a track?
Double click on the name in the edit window or right click on the track name and choose rename.
How do you acquire a full track view that fills the edit window with the longest track in the session?
Double click the Zoomer Tool Icon
Where does Audio that is recorded into a Pro tools session go?
Each take of the audio recording is stored as a separate file inside the corresponding sessions audio files folder. It is ONLY stored in the Audio Files folder, NOT saved in the session file
The File Menu....
File menu commands let you create and maintain Pro tools sessions. The file menu includes options for opening, creating saving sessions bouncing tracks and importing land exporting session components.
Dynamic Plug in processing
Is new to Pro tools 11, this option maximizes plug in counts by dynamically reallocating host-based processing resources as needed during playback and recording. It allows the Avide audio engine to take some plug ins offline under certain conditions, thereby reducing the systems overall pc usage.
What does host based mean?
It means they use the processing power of the host computer to carry out real time routing mixing and processing of audio signals
To use loop play back do the following....
Options > LOOP PLAY BACK The play back button in the edit window and transport window will change to show a loop arrow. CLICK play OR the SPACE bar to start continuous loop playback
What is the number of db to double the loudness
Plus 10 DB
To adjust column width or height follow these steps...
Position your pointer over the column separator where the cursor changes into a double headed arrow. click and drag on the column separator to adjust its position as needed.
Relative amplitude or loudness of a sample is captured through what process?
Quantization, which means that each sample is quantified (assigned) to the closes available amplitude value.
How do you activate snap to grid?
SHIFT-CLICK on the Grid mode button when in any other mode.
Two essential factors to consider in A/D process are
Sample rate and bit depth
What is the highest sample rate and bit depth ProTools in general can operate with?
Sampling Rates up to 192 kHz, with bit depths up to 32-bit floating point.
All of the files used for a project are grouped together in a what?
Session Folder
In what edit mode, if a clip is removed from between two existing clips, the subsequent clips on the track will move to the left to fill the void?
Shuffle mode.
What does Shuffle Mode do?
Snaps moved clips to next or previous clip. When deleting material other clips will move to fill the gap, or when adding make perfect space for new clip. No overlapping
The Edit Menu lets you...
The Edit menu commands allows you to edit and manipulate the media in your current selection and to affect data in the Timeline. The Edit menu includes options for copying pasting, duplicate repeating and shifting selections, trimming separating, and healing clips.
The View menu.....
The View menu commands control how Pro Tools windows, tracks, and track data are displayed. Some View menu commands toggle the display of various components parts of Pro Tools part of a window or a view feature deselect the command to hide it.
What is the AIR creative collections and what is included with it? Name some of them
The air Creative collection is a set of native effects and plug ins. It includes 20 effects plug ins and 6 AIR virtual instruments. Avid's Advanced Instrument Research. Hybrid,Strike,Velvet,Structure and Transfuser plug-ins
The frequency is what in relation to sound?
The frequency of sound pressure variations that reaches our ears creates our perceptions of the pitch of the sound.
Name two type of cursor in the edit window
The play back cursor and edit cursor.
The waveform is what in relations to sound?
The waveform is the shape of the sound or more accurately the shape of the vibration that produced the sound. The waveform of the sound pressure variations that reaches our ears creates our perception of the sounds source.
what happens if the playback cursor and the edit cursor are linked?
They allow you to play one area of your session while simultaneously editing a entirely different selection.
GRID mode allows you to
This mode allows you to snap clips and MIDI notes to the nearest time increment on a grid, based on the currently selected Time Scale. Use Grid mode to fine-tune timing by aligning parts using defined timing intervals.
SPOT mode allows
This mode allows you to specify EXACT locations using numerical values when moving, placing or trimming clips. Use spot mode to move the spots of your session to specific known destinations.
Which types of rulers are time-based? Conductor rulers?
Time Based: Bars/Beats, Min:Sec,Samples,Time Code,TimeCode 2, Feet +Frames Conductor Rulers: Markers, Tempo, Meter, Key,Chords MTMKC
What are the two different types of ruler views?
Time based rulers and Conductor rulers
what selector can you use to route a signal from an input on an interface to a track for recording.
You can use the input path selector.
Shuffle Mode allows...
You to shuffle the order of clips WITHOUT adding space between them or having OVERLAP. USE shuffle mode to rearrange adjacent parts in your session.
The DB is what
a logarithmic unit that is used to describe a ration of sound pressure. it does not have a linear relation to our perception of loudness
if the command key is a singular modifier than the option key is
a multiple modifier
What does Snap to grid allow you to do?
allows you to make selections based on the Grid while editing in Shuffle,Slip or Spot mode
Sample rate X bit depth equals
bit per second
sample rate X bit depth equals x 60
bits per minute
When using the trim tool in shuffle mode....
changing a clips start and end point with will automatically move the subsequent clips by the amount added to or trimmed from the edited clip.
To show or hid either the left or right side column do the following....
click the arrow icon located in the bottom corner corresponding to the columnn you want to show or hide. The arrow icon will reverse to point in the opposite direction and the column will slide into or out of view. -click the corresponding arrow icon again to return to the previous menu. double click with your pointer positioned over the column separator (where the curls changes to a double_headed arrow) The column will slide into our out of view.
What does Grid Mode do?
clips and MIDI notes that are moved, trimmed or inserted snap to nearest time increment according to specified Time scale and Grid size.
The window menu.....
command allows you display various Pro tools windows and palettes.
The wave cache file is?
created inside the session folder This file stores all of thew oviform display data for any audio in the session and enables the session to open more quickly. The file can be included whenever a session is transferred to another Pro Tools system.
The H?W buffer size does not affect DSP processing on a Pro tools HD system. DSP processing is performed by....?
dedicated processing chips on a Pro tools HDX card.
How can you open a session in the workspace browser
double click the file.
You can hide views by..
holding down ALT/option and clickiing on the nameplate of a ruler or edition window column view
The options menu...
let you select several editing, recording, monitoring, playback and display options. from this menu you can enable loop recording, turn on pre and post roll, engage dynamic transport mode, set scrolling options and make other similar choices.
The setup menu...
lets you configure various pro tools hardware and software parameters.
What does slip mode do?
move, trim, cut or paste clips without other tracks being affected. Overlapping works.No restrictions for time placement.
What Numeric key will enable the click in the metronome
numeric 7
Pro Tools includes a number of Native, DSP, and Audio suite plug ins that are included with the PRO tools software. Plugins that ship with the pro tools software include...
numerous avid audio plug ins as well as the AIR creative suite.
Higher Hardware Buffer size settings....
provide more processing power for tracks that are recording or monitoring live input at the expense of increased latency. in pro tools 11 once you find the optimal setting, you can generally leave it as is, since pro tools will automatically use the high buffer domain for mix tracks.
Lower Hardware buffer size settings....
reduce monitoring latency when you are recording or monitoring LIVE input
In shuffle mode you CANNOT
separate the clips from each other or add space between them. You cannot make them overlap like in SLIP mode. ( however any space between existing clips in maintained when the clips move as a result of insertions, deletions or edits made earlier in the track.
To select multiple tracks you can press
shift click
in what mode, if a clip is inserted between two existing clips, all subsequent clips on the track will move to the right to make space for the inserted clip?
shuffle mode.
To use the Reverse operation function you use...
the ALT/Option modifier
The amplitude is what in relation to sound?
the intensity or amplitude of the sound pressure variations that reaches our ears creates our perception of the loudness of the sound. we measure amplitude in decibels. the decibel scale is defined by the dynamic range of human hearing. with the threshold of hearing defined as ) db and the threshold of sensation of pain is 120 db.
Pan controls and volume faders can be found in what window?
the mix window
MIDI and INSTRUMENT TRACKS are what by default
tick based, meaning that MIDI clips and events are fixed to bar and beat positions and move relative to the sample timeline as meter and tempo changes occur.
What is the Nyquist theorem?
to produce and accurate representation of a given frequency of sound, each cycle of the sounds vibration must be sampled a minimum of two times.
Loop Play back can be found with what window?
transport window
Native Pro tools systems are systems with out DSP cards that utilize the computers process called host based processing to carry out operations such as recording, playback, mixing, and native plug in processing. effects and virtual instruments. true or false
true
The save as feature allows you to save and work on a new version. True or false
true
Wavecache files can be deleted without harming your the session or your system. true or false?
true.
clip is different from an edit selection. true or false
true.
Pro tools HD software with HDX hardware systems are what?
use one or more HDX PCIe cards to connect to up to 12 HD-series audio interfaces combined. This configuration provides maximum IO capacity as well as dedicated DSP power for mixing and realtime processing.
MIDI data is normally stored where?
whiten the Pro Tools session, NO MIDI files will exist outside the session document. MIDI files can be exported using the EXPORT> MIDI command.
SLIP mode allows
you to place a clip anywhere on a track without affecting the placement of other clips, leaving space between clips or overlapping clips as desired. Use slip mode to move or arrange the parts of your session freely.
the Track Menu.....
Track menu commands let you set up and maintain tracks in a Pro Tools session. The Track menu includes track-menu include track based operations, such as options for creating, duplicating, grouping, deleting and modifying tracks and track settings.
Wave Cache files can be deleted without harming the session odor your system. If the Wave cache is missing Pro tools will recalculate the session waveform data True or False?
True
What is the difference between the View and Windows menus?
View Controls HOW windows are displayed, Window controls WHAT windows are displayed
Where can you access the different types of ruler views?
View>Rulers Ruler View selector(located at top left of Rulers)
What is the default file type?
WAV.
How do you see your disk usage
WINdow> disk usage
In shuffle mode...
When you move or place clips on a track their placement is forced/constrained by other clips, and any edits you make to a clip will affect the placement of following clips on the track. Clips being moved or placed will automatically snap to the end of the previous clip causing the two clips to butt up against each other.
What are the Three Main HD audio series interfaces
HD OMNI, HD I/O, HD MADI
Where can I adjust my RTAS plug-in processing performance?
Hardware Buffer In setup menu
Standard Pro tools systems are what?
Host based meaning they use the processing power of the host computer to carry out real time routing, mixing, and processing of audio signals. These systems use pro tools software with an a video audio interface or 3rd party hardware.
Pro tools hd software with Hd native hardware systems are what?
Host based with the use of Pro tools HD native PCIe card or the Pro Tools HD Native Thunderbolt interface to connect up to four HD- series audio interfaces. (this configuration provides greater I/O capacity and supports pro tools HD software running in a native (host based) environment.
What must you specify in a MIDI track when creating a new track and why?
If it will be mono or stereo since no audio passes through the track, midi are data only.
