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| Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
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| No, MIDI is simply a machine language or protocol that allows multiple peices of digital gear communicate |
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| Where and When was MIDI formally introduced? |
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| Sequencing, Automation, control surfaces, alternate controllers, etc. |
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| What are the basic MIDI messages? |
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| Note On, Note Off, and Continuous Controller. |
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| MIDI In, MIDI out, and MIDI Through |
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| What problems are inherent in daisy chaining MIDI devices? |
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| Latency Data Corruption and Time Drift |
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| What is the difference between daisy chaining an d using a MIDI Thru box? |
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| The MIDI Thru box acts as a router making the signal only have to go through one machine to get from origin to destination thus reducing latency. |
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| What is an alternate controller? |
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| A controller other than a keyboard that allows a musician to play whatever instrument they are most comfortable with in MIDI so they can make it sound like another instrument. |
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| Why was general MIDI created? |
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| To eliminate compatibility problems between keyboards and synthesizers made by different manufacturers and furtber to make the protocol universal. |
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| Who developed The Universal Serial Interface which later evolved into MIDI and when was it developed? |
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| Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits and Ikuturo Kakehashi from Roland in 1981 |
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| What type of cable does MIDI use? |
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| What is the new protocol poised to replace MIDI in the future? |
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| The path an electrical signal takes from point A to point B |
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| A method of directing signals to the proper destination |
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| What is an insert effect? |
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| An effect that is inserted directly into the signal flow therefore recording the sound 100% wet |
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| What types of effects are generally used as insert effects? Why? |
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| Dynamic effects, because they are all or nothing effects. |
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| What is an auxilary effect? |
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| Effects that make a copy of the original signal so you have one wet and one dry allowing you to determine the ratio between the two. |
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| What type of effect is generally used as an auxillary effect? Why? |
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| Time based effects because they are seldom used 100% wet. |
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| What are the three basic sections of a mixing console? |
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| The jack feild, the I/O strip, and the Master Section |
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| What is the function of a bus on a mixing console? |
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| It allows you to group any number of tracks together and control them globally by using that bus' controls. |
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| What are the 2 ways effects are generally used? |
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| Creatively to give us a distinct and original sound, or utilitarian to allow us to fix mistakes in the original recording. |
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| What are the types of Equilizers? |
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| Graphic, Parametric, Paragraphic, and Fixed Frequency |
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| What function do filters serve? |
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| They allow one part of an audio signal to pass through while blocking the rest. |
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| What are the filters that are commonly used? |
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| Low Pass Filter, High Pass Filter, All pass filter, Band Pass Filter, and Notch Filters |
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| What function do dynamic effects serve? |
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| They boost or cut the amplitude of a signal. |
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| What are the Dynamic Effects? |
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| Compressors, Limiters, and Expanders. |
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| Which effect is the most overused and least understood? |
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| What are the Modulation Effects? |
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| Flangers, Choruses and Phasers |
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| What are the basic Frequency based Effects? |
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| EQ's and Filters (Including Wah-Wah pedals since they are simply band pass filters |
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| What are the time based effects? |
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| What are the unique effects? |
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| Leslie Rotating Speakers, Tremolo, Vocoders, and Talkboxes. |
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| How do dynamic mics work? |
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| A Coil is suspended in a magnetic field, when that coil moves and electrical charge is created |
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| Same as dynamic mics, but instead of a coil a thin metal ribbon is suspended in the magnetic field. |
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| Describe how condenser mics work. |
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| Two oppositely charged plates have a pocket of air in between. The SPL's of the sound waves push the plates closer together creating a capacitance. |
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| Which Mic is the most rugged? |
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| Which Mic is the most fragile? |
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| Which Mic requires external power? |
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| What do we call a condenser mic thaat uses less than 48 VDC? How does it accomplish this? |
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| Electret. It comes precharged so the plate does not have to recieve its full charge externally. |
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| What shape does a cardoid Polar Pattern resemble? |
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| What shape does a hypercardoid Polar Pattern resemble? |
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| What shape does a bidirectional mic resemble? |
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| What shape does an omnidirectional mic resemble? |
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| How does a shotgun mic work? |
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| By cancelling out all sound on both sides of it using an interference tube. Its directionality gives it its range. |
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| How does a parabolic mic work? |
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| By channeling sound to a point reflected off of some kind of dish. |
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| How do boundary mics work? |
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| They use the vibrations from whatever they are set up on to capture the sound effectively turning whatever its placed on into a microphone |
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| A mic clipped onto a shirt or jacket. Omnidirectional, the "hidden mic" |
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| What is the formula for the Inverse Square Law? |
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| 1/x-squared=Percieved loudness where x = distance |
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| What frequency response would you most want from a microphone? |
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| What is the one microphone no audio engineer should ever be without? |
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| What are Plosives and Sibilance? |
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| B, P, and S sounds that sound nasty on recordings |
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| What are the four main purposes of preproduction? |
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| Plan the Project, Obtain Equipment, Hire Neccessary Personell, and Secure the location(s). |
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| What is the purpose of slating? |
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| It provides video and audio clues to aid with synching the audio and visuals. |
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| What is room tone and why is it recorded? |
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| The ambient sounds of a location recorded to make ADR sound seamless. |
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| What are the "2 schools of thought" on music tracking? |
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| Record everything dry and Print Effects to Tape |
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| What are milestones in relation to video games? |
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| Different stages of production where one must be fully completed before you can move onto the next one. They are Alpha, Beta, and Gold Master. |
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| What is the general order of effects? |
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| Dynamic-> Frequency-> Modulation-> Time Based |
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| Changes spatial relationships between sounds |
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| What does a routing matrix do? |
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| Directs the channel on which bus to send its output |
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| What is the purpose of gain staging? |
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| To record all elements of a track at optimal volume. |
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| What are the dynamic effects? |
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| Compressors, Limiters, Expanders, Gates, Distortion |
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| What are the frequency based effects? |
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| What are the Modulation Effects? |
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| Flangers, Phasers, Chorus |
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| What do modulation effects use to modify the sound? |
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| LFO's (Low Frequency Oscillators) |
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| What are the time based effects? |
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| On Time Based effects what does the feedback knob control? |
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| The number of reflections |
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| The guy who recorded at the Taj Mahal was using what type of reverb? |
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| What is a Tremelo effect? |
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| Rapid fluctuations in Amplitude |
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| What phenomena is the Leslie Rotating Speaker recreating? |
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| A device that modulates a carrier (Keyboard) Through the use of the human voice |
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| By playing sound into your mouth and using your mouth as an envelope generator |
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| Who are the two most famous users of the talkbox? |
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| Peter Frampton and Roger Trout |
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| What three things does the polar pattern of a microphone tell you? |
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| Physical Area, Reach, and Frequency Response of that Microphone |
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| What is special about multidirectional microphones? |
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| They allow you to change the polar pattern of the mic |
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| What information is contained within a Video Game's design document? |
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| Every bit of information that relates to the game |
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| Visual map of all the sounds in a movie. Like a sonic storyboard |
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| What does the term Raw Footage refer to? |
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| All of the audio and visual material captured on a film shoot |
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| Compilations of the audio and visual elements for all scenes and takes shot that day |
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| Sound effects performed in synch with the movie in real time |
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| What are the three general stems? |
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| What is an M and E Mix? Why is it done? |
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| Music and Effects. Mix minus the dialogue. It is done to facilitate international release so the international actors just have to add in the dialogue in their native language |
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| What is an M and E Mix? Why is it done? |
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| Music and Effects. Mix minus the dialogue. It is done to facilitate international release so the international actors just have to add in the dialogue in their native language |
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