Pro Tools Interview Questions & Answers

Question 1. What Is Latency?

Answer :

The amount of time it takes your computer to receive an input and then send back an output.

Question 2. Bounce To Itunes Is Found In The?

Answer :

Bounce to disk dialogue.

Question 3. How Do You Change A Pro Tools Session Nudge Value Using A Key Command?

Answer :

(Ctrl)Command + Option + Plus/Minus.

Question 4. The Icon D-control Es Is A?

Answer :

Scalable control surface for Pro Tools HD.

Question 5. Pro Tools 10 Allows Aiff & .wav Files To Be?

Answer :

Used in the same session.

Question 6. In Spot Mode Clips Can Be?

Answer :

Sent to a specific point in the timeline manually entered by the user.

Question 7. In Pro Tools 10 Hd, Vcas Are Used To?

Answer :

Control the volume of groups of tracks without changing their routing.

Question 8. What Does The Bus Interrogation Allow The User To See?

Answer :

All tracks assigned to the same interal bus, output bus, or hardware insert.

Question 9. Midi Stands For What?

Answer :

Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

Question 10. The "smart Tool" Allows For For Which Three Functions?

Answer :

Selector, grabber, trimmer.

Question 11. What Is The Primary Function Of The Edit Window?

Answer :

To display audio, video, MIDI data, and mixer automation for recording, editing, and arranging on tracks.

Question 12. Solo Safe Mode Does What?

Answer :

Prevents a track from being muted even if the user solos other tracks.

Question 13. What Does Quantizing Do?

Answer :

It makes a track's timing more beat-accurate.

Question 14. Quick Punch Allows An Engineer To?

Answer :

Record over sections of previously recorded takes non-destructively.

Question 15. Strip Silence Is Used To Remove?

Answer :

Sections of audio clips that fall below a certain threshold.

Question 16. Clip Gain Is Applied To Audio Files To?

Answer :

Change the overall volume of the clip.

Question 17. What Shortcut Can Show Or Hide Clip Gain Info?

Answer :

(Start)Control+Shift+Equals (=)

Question 18. Audio Interfaces Are Selected In The?

Answer :

Playback Engine dialogue.

Question 19. Track Composition - What Shortcut Is Used To Copy The Selection To The Main Playlist?

Answer :

Option+Control+V (Mac). Alt+Start+V (Win).

Question 20. What Does Midi Thru Enable?

Answer :

It allows you to monitor Midi input while recording.

Question 21. Subtracting Or Adding Pre-delay Time Does Not?

Answer :

Affect the clarity of the wet signal.