Pro Tools 101 Certification Study Guide
What is the new session file format? Can PT10 sessions be opened directly in earlier versions of
the software? - ✔✔.ptx
PT10 sessions cannot be opened directly in older versions
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Pro Tools 101 Certification Study Guide
What is the new session file format? Can PT10 sessions be opened directly in earlier versions of
the software? - ✔✔.ptx
PT10 sessions cannot be opened directly in older versions
What is the highest sample rate and bit depth ProTools in general can operate with? - ✔✔32 bit
floating point bit rate
192kHz sample rate
How many MIDI tracks can you have? - ✔✔512 MIDI Tracks
How many Internal busses? - ✔✔256 Internal busses
As far as Notation is concerned, what does the Score Editor Window do? - ✔✔View,edit,arrange
and print MIDI data from your session as musical notation.
Which types of video files can you import? - ✔✔Quicktime,Avid Video files or VC-1AP (Win)
What is A.I.R.? What types of Plug-ins do they make? Name some of them. - ✔✔Avid's
Advanced Instrument Research. Hybrid,Strike,Velvet,Structure and Transfuser plug-ins
What is the range of human hearing?
Frequency is referred to as the _____ of the sound. - ✔✔Pitch
What is another term for Hz? - ✔✔Cycles Per Second(CPS)
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.
How much dynamic range does 24bit Audio contain? - ✔✔144 dB
How much dynamic range does 16bit Audio contain? - ✔✔96 dB
How many dB's of dynamic range per bit? - ✔✔6 dB
What is an A/D converter? - ✔✔Analog to Digital Converter
What is a D/A converter? - ✔✔Digital to Analog Converter
What are the two types of digital connections used for transfers? - ✔✔SPIDIF and AES/EBU
What does DSP stand for? - ✔✔Digital Signal Processing
Which types of interfaces are compatible with ProTools? - ✔✔Digi 002 or 003 family, Eleven
Rack Interface, Pro Tools Mbox 2 family, M Audio hardware
Which types of interfaces are compatible with ProTools Core Audio/ASIO? - ✔✔any 3rd party
interface with supported Core Audio(Mac)or ASIO (Win)
Which types of interfaces are compatible with ProTools HD? - ✔✔Pro Tools HD series
interfaces(Omni,Madi,I/O) combined with one or HD series PCI/PCIe cards.
Name 3 ProTools system configurations? - ✔✔Pro Tools, Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools Core
Audio/ASIO
What are the types of ProTools Software? - ✔✔Standard,HD,Complete Production 2 Toolkit
What are the basic specifications of ProTools? How many tracks does it come with? -
✔✔Sample rates up to 192 kHz,bit depths up to 32 bit Floating Point, 96 simultaneous mono or
stereo audio tracks up to 128 voice able tracks) 512 simultaneous MIDI tracks.
What is the ProTools Creative Collection? - ✔✔Native instrument and effects plug ins that come
with all Pro Tools Systems.20 AIR effects plug ins and 6 AIR virtual instruments
What does the Complete Production 2 Toolkit offer? - ✔✔full surround mixing, Quick
Punch,Track Punch and Destructive Punch support; 512 Aux Input Tracks, 128 Instrument
Tracks,VCA tracks, advanced automation features, advanced video features.
What are the folders and files that PT creates as part of the session hierarchy? - ✔✔Session
Folders
What is the WaveCache.wfm file used for? - ✔✔file stores all the waveform display data for any
audio in the session
Where are PT MIDI files normally stored? - ✔✔within the Pro Tools Session. Export>Midi to
bring outside the session
What is the correct sequence for powering up your hardware? - ✔✔1.All equipment powered
down
2.Power external hard drives that use external power.
3.Turn on MIDI interfaces and MIDI devices.
4. Turn on audio interface
5. Start your computer
6.Turn on monitoring system.
What does an ILOK do? - ✔✔stores licenses for protected software.
What does RTAS stand for? - ✔✔Real Time Audio Suite
What does host based processing mean? - ✔✔Pro Tools utilizing the computer processing
capacity
Where can I adjust my RTAS plug-in processing performance? - ✔✔Hardware buffer in setup
menu
What is the difference between the View and Windows menus? - ✔✔View controls how
windows are displayed. Windows controls what windows are displayed
What are the different types of ruler views? - ✔✔Time based Rulers and Conductor Rulers
Where can you access the different types of ruler views? - ✔✔View>Rulers
Ruler View selector(located at top left of Rulers)
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
What are the two ways to rearrange items in the toolbar? - ✔✔- click and drag sections to desired
place or
-use the Edit Window Toobar menu located at upper right corner of the window
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
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
What does Slip Mode do? - ✔✔move, trim, cut or paste clips without other tracks being affected.
Overlapping works.No restrictions for time placement.
What does Spot Mode do? - ✔✔move or place clips precisely by entering time values in the
dialog box, opens when working with clips and Spot mode is activated.Operation do not affect
other clips. Parameters are Start End Duration
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.
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
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