RIM 4300 Final

The Elastic Properties window allows you to change settings about transient detection, among other things. For some algorithms, it also allows you to change the pitch of a region/clip.

True

You record a vocal into Pro Tools, and would like to use Elastic Audio to fix some timing issues. What algorithm would you most likely choose?

Monophonic

The two track views dealing with Elastic Audio are:

Warp and Analysis

This Elastic Audio algorithm features a "decay" setting, and is typically best used on instruments with short, well-defined transients.

Rhythmic

Your turn on Elastic Audio for a track, and set the algorithm to Polyphonic. If you wish to adjust the tempo of Pro Tools, and have the audio in this track automatically compress or expand to follow that change, what track setting must you address?

Track Timebase

The only way to conform an audio file to the session tempo is by dragging and dropping it from the Workspace.

False

Which one of these Elastic Audio algorithms alters the pitch of a region/clip as you expand/compress the timing?

Varispeed

Which Elastic Audio algorithm cannot be used in real-time?

X-Form

In Pro Tools, what menu gives you access to the Elastic Properties window?

Region/Clip

What is the purpose of lowering the Event Sensitivity setting in the Elastic Properties window?

Removes excess Event markers

The two methods to build tempo maps in Pro Tools involve using:

Beat Detective and ID Beat

Switching to Manual tempo mode permanently erases any mapping done on the Tempo Ruler/Conductor track.

False

A tempo map can be used to take audio tracks performed without a click, and lock them to a steady tempo.

True

Groove Template Extraction is the one Beat Detective mode that creates tempo maps.

False

(Bar-Beat Marker Generation is the mode that creates tempo maps.)

Tempo map creation involves moving audio transients to match the grid.

False

(Tempo maps involve moving the grid to match the existing, unaltered audio.)

This mode of Beat Detective allows for the creation of collections of Beat Triggers, built up over repeated uses the Capture Selection and Analyze functions.

Collection Mode

When a tempo map is created, and a ticks-based audio track has elastic audio enabled on it, Pro Tools automatically enters these onto the audio track.

Tempo Event Generated Warp Markers

On a Mac, the key command for ID Beat is:

command&I

Manual tempo mode allows for the creation of tempo maps in Pro Tools.

False

(CoductorTrack/Tempo Ruler mode is for the creation of tempo maps.)

On a Mac, the numeric keypad key command to open Beat Detective is:

command&8

The General Properties that a Memory Location can recall include all of the following except,

Plugin presets

(Presets are controlled by Window Configs.)

Window Configurations can recall the position of the Mix and Edit windows, but not plugin windows.

False

In regards to the Edit window, a Window Configuration can recall settings for all of the following except,

Pre/post roll times

On the numeric keypad, the key command for recalling a Memory Location in Pro Tools is:

.(period) & number of the Memory Location & .(period)

A marker set to an absolute timebase will move when the tempo is changed, maintaining it's bar|beat position.

False

Memory Locations can be used to recall track height settings.

True

Which of the following is true?

You can recall a Window Configuration with a Memory Location.

On the numeric keypad, the key command for creating a Window Configuration in Pro Tools is:

.(period) & number of the Win. Config & +(plus)`

What version of PT saw the release of Track and Folder Markers?

Pro Tools 2023.6

Clicking the "plus" button to the right of the I/O section on a track will allow you to create a Track Marker. For example, to enter lyrics into a vocal track. What is the key command to do this on a Mac?

Command + Enter

This lets you modify existing track volume and send level automation up or down, relative to the existing automation. So, if I've already written volume automation on a vocal, and I just want to raise all the automation up by 3 dB, I would use this.

Trim

In the Pro Tools Automation Window, there are how many automation types that can be write-enabled?

7

In Pro Tools, when automating a parameter in Touch mode, when you release the parameter (letting go of the mouse or your control surface), the parameter:

Returns to it's previous value as written in the track.

When automating in touch mode, the time it takes from when you release a parameter for it to return to its previously automated position is called what? This is a value (in milliseconds) that can be adjusted in the preferences.

AutoMatch

You automate a track's volume using the track fader. You also have a compressor inserted on the track. Is the input signal to the compressor affected by this volume automation? Meaning, are the inserts on an audio track prefader or postfader?

Audio track inserts are prefader

You cannot automate a track solo in Pro Tools.

True

When automating plugins in Pro Tools, this key command allows you to enable or disable individual plugin parameters simply by clicking on them within the plugin window.

Control + Option + Command click

In Pro Tools, there is a green "safe" button on both plugins and track faders. What does this do if engaged on either?

Prevents automation from being written to them, even if Pro Tools is in a a write mode.

On a Mac, when automating plugins in Pro Tools, this key command allows you to click on a parameter on the plugin, and have the automation playlist for that parameter show up in the track view.

Control + Command click

In Pro Tools, when automating a parameter in Latch mode, when you release the parameter (letting go of the mouse or your control surface), the parameter:

Stays where you left it, until you stop playback.

Clip Effects allow you to apply processing to individual clips, or a group of selected clips.

True

You dial in a good plugin eq setting on a vocal track. You'd like to audition another setting, but don't want to lose the original.

Which of the following plugin features would be the most benefitial in that situation?

Compare

Track Freeze will render the track as an audio file and disable the plugins to conserve CPU. You can later 'unfreeze' the track for further editing or arrangement.

True

This feature of Pro Tools creates a new audio track that contains the audio rendered from the output of the source track, including any real-time processing such as AAX plug-ins. A fast way to print a track and it's settings to a new track.

Commit

Two current Pro Tools plugin formats are AAX AU and AAX VST.

False

These are older PT plugin formats, no longer supported.

RTAS and TDM

In Pro Tools, Low Latency Monitoring mode:

bypasses plugins and sends when a track is record enabled, unless a certain setting is made in Preferences.

Which plugin format is used "offline", or not in real-time.

Audiosuite

Certain plug-ins may introduce latency. The Pro Tools Delay Compensation engine can automatically offset tracks by the required amount to keep them in sync with each-other.

True

When enabled, this feature ensures that plugins will not take up CPU resources until they encounter a clip in a track, though there are caveats in some plugins with analog modeling settings.

Dynamic Plugin Processing