Fullsail Midi Quiz One

Front 1

What is a VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator Change?

Back 1

FREQUENCY AND PITCH.

Front 2

What does a VCA Voltage Contolled Amplifier alternate?

Back 2

Amplitude and Volume

Front 3

What does the VCF Voltage Controlled Filter alternate?

Back 3

Timbre and Harmonic Content

Front 4

What does the rate knob alternate?

Back 4

Speed

Front 5

What does the depth knob alternate?

Back 5

Percentage

Front 6

What are the three steps to make a sound?

Back 6

1st you use the Osculater
2nd you filter out the frequencys you don’t want
3rd you amplify it

Front 7

what is subtractive synthesis?

Back 7

Is the most common synthesis method and it works by removing overtones from the overall sound by utilizing filters.

Front 8

What is Additive Synthesis?

Back 8

•Combining multiple sine waves at various frequencies to create sound

Front 9

What is Fm Synthesis?

Back 9

•Synthesis method of taking one wave at a certain frequency and modulating it with another wave at a certain frequency.

Front 10

What is Resynthesis

Back 10

•Analyzing a sound and then recreating it using additive synthesis technique

Front 11

What is Phase Distortion Synthesis

Back 11

• Changing the phase angle of a waveform to crate a different sounding wave.

Front 12

What is Wave Table Synthesis

Back 12

Utilizing single cycle waveforms contained within a digitized memory table.

Front 13

What is Pulse Code Modulation
(Sample Playback)

Back 13

• The recording of analog sounds into digital format and encoding onto rom

Front 14

What is Granular Synthesis

Back 14

•Conversion of raw wave forms into much smaller elements

Front 15

What is Graintable Synthesis?

Back 15

•Combines induced waveforms with Wave table synthesis

Front 16

What is Physical Modeling Synthesis?

Back 16

•Powerful synthesis technique that uses dsp processing to analyze

Front 17

What is Analog Modeling Synthesis?

Back 17

•Uses the same technique as Physical Modeling synthesis but the parameters are designed to recreate the circuitry and components that were in original analog synthesizers

Front 18

What is Sampling?

Back 18

A sample is a recording can be triggered by midi.

Front 19

What are the two sampler types?

Back 19

Hardware and Software

Front 20

What is the hardwares advantages and disadvantages?

Back 20

Advantages Higher Stability
Disadvantages-Lower memory ram amount

Front 21

What is the Memory rams purpose?

Back 21

Is where the samples are recorded/loaded into.

Front 22

What are the two types of hardware samplers and what differs them?

Back 22

Static: Complete samples are loaded into ram
Steaming: Initial few hundred milliseconds of samples are loaded into ram the remaining sample length is steamed from HD

Front 23

what is Storage?

Back 23

Where the samples are stored if you not using them

Front 24

What are the different storage types?

Back 24

Floppy Disk
Hard disk
Flash Memory (smart media, compact flash, ect)
SDS (Sample Dump Standard)
SMDI (SCSI Musical data interchange)

Front 25

how are you suppose to record a sample?

Back 25

Record as hot as possible with out clipping.
Record more than you need.

Front 26

What to do to use the sample in a daw?

Back 26

Truncation (Editing of start and end points).
Edit at the zero crossing point
Assign sample to a key note or root key.
(Where a sample plays back at its original pitch and tempo)

Front 27

what does pitch equal?

Back 27

Pitch=Tempo to a traditional sampler.

Front 28

What dose Receive Modes do?

Back 28

The MIDI Receive Modes define whether an instrument will respond to one or more channels and how many notes it will play back at once

Front 29

what are the different modes?

Back 29

- 1. Omni ON Poly
- 2. Omni ON Mono
- 3. Omni OFF Poly
- 4. Omni OFF Mono

Front 30

what are the most common modes?

Back 30

Mode 3 Omni OFF Poly is the Most Common Mode in MIDI

Front 31

What dose omni mode on mean?

Back 31

When Omni Mode is ON means that the device receives on any and all channels, but it merges all the data together to one specific channel and then plays all notes received on the one sound assigned to that channel

Front 32

what is POLY (Polyphonic) mode?

Back 32

The ability to play MORE than one note at a time

Front 33

What is MONO (Monophonic) mode?

Back 33

The ability to play ONLY one note at a time

Front 34

what is Multitimbral Mode?

Back 34

when multiple tone generators in one keyboard or module.
Which allows a device to receive MIDI on more than one channel simultaneously.

Front 35

what are the 8 Parameters of Multitimbral

Back 35

1. Channel Assignment – chooses which Channel is used per Part
2. Timbre Assignment – chooses which sounds is used per Part
3. Volume – used to internally pre-mix sounds levels
4. Pan – Places sounds in the stereo (panoramic) field

Front 36

what is Polyphony?

Back 36

The maximum number of notes a device can play at one time

Front 37

what dose a Dynamic Allocation do?

Back 37

automatically assigns notes of polyphony to each channel as that are needed in real time

Front 38

what is Velocity Switching?

Back 38

changes some aspect of sound depending on how fast you strike the keys (speed, not force)

Front 39

what can volocity switching be added to

Back 39

Volume, Pan, Filter, & Layers are typical

Front 40

what midi key is middle c?

Back 40

Middle C = C4 or MIDI Note # 60

Front 41

what are the two Sequencer Types?

Back 41

Dedicated (Hardware)
Non-Dedicated (Software)

Front 42

what are the dedicated (hardware) advantages and disadvantages?

Back 42

Advantages: High Stability, Portability
Disadvantages: Low Resolution, Editing Facilities

Front 43

what are the non-dedicated (software) advantages and disadvantages?

Back 43

Advantages: High Resolution, Editing Facilities
Disadvantages: Lower Stability, Portability(on Desktop Systems)