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Era 5: DAWs and emerging technologies
Era 5: DAWs and emerging technologies
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When was ProTools first introduced?
1985
1991
2015
1999
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What are the advantages of using a DAW?
lots of corrective ability
Many layers of instruments recorded at home without needing session players
Unlimited takes
Non-destructive editing
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Can you think of a disadvantage to the rise of the DAW?
Tracks that have unwanted crackle and hiss
Tracks that have wow and flutter
too much 'factory produced' music - without enough musicality
Tracks that lack the warmth of analogue tape
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What is a DAW?
A dynamic audio workstation
A digital audio workplace
A digital audio workstation
A digital animatronic worker
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DAWs are cheaper now than analogue tape?
False
True
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How do today's recording artists get the rackmounted equipment sounds of earlier eras?
Create synthesised versions
Use plugins designed to emulate them
Record the sound of the rackmounted units off a vinyl record
Steal them from studios
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What does lossy audio compression do?
loses some of the dynamic detail
loses some of the frequency content
reduces the file size
loses some of the instruments
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What is the advantage of lossless audio compression?
it is smaller than lossy compression
it is smaller in size than the uncompressed file
keeps the digital data the same as the uncompressed file but quieter
keeps the digital data the same as the uncompressed file
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What file type is commonly used at the recording and production stage?
uncompressed
.wav
mp3
compressed
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Which DAWs are cloud based?
Cakewalk Sonar
Soundtrap
BandLab
Reason
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Which of these are streaming services?
YouTube
Kindle
Apple Music
Spotify
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What does a DAW do?
Enables the user to stream music
Enables the user to record tracks of audio as digital data
Controls and captures audio and MIDI data
Enables the user to record on a tape machine
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WAV is a compressed audio file format?
False
True
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What factors limited the performance of early DAWS?
Slow processing power
Slow hard drive speeds
Limited track counts
They were all based on DAT tape
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Which of these is NOT a DAW
Protools
Sibelius
Logic Pro
Cubase
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Which is the file type used for iTunes/Apple Music and is better than mp3?
AAC
FLAC
WAV
DSD
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What technology will influence (and is influencing already) the use of the DAW?
Cloud-based storage and file sharing
Immersive audio
AI
Analogue tape technology
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What is audio quantise?
Correcting the timing of an audio track to fit with the rest of the tracks
Correcting the volume of an audio track
Correcting the time of a MIDI track to fit with an audio track
Creating a new audio track in a DAW file
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What could happen if the memory (RAM) and processors (CPU) were not powerful enough?
Latency
Glitches in recording and playback
Double tracking
Loss of MIDI data
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What was the processing sample rate and bit depth of ProTools in the mid 1990s?
48kHz and 24 bit
96kHz and 24 bit
22.1kHz and 8 bit
44.1kHz and 16 bit
