Audio Post-Production 
             Center for Audio Recording Arts (CARA)
           School of Music, Georgia State University
                                
			MIDTERM EXAM - Part I

This examination covers the basic applications of the Micro Technology 
Unlimited Digital Audio Workstation and the MicroEditor 2.6 application.

Instructions:

Print out this page.  Using complete and reasonably detailed answers, respond
to the following questions.  Please type your answers.  Exams that are not
typed will not be graded.  You may turn this examination in via electronic
means - but, be sure to keep both a hard copy (paper) and an electronic copy
in case your data is lost.  Good luck!  You may use the MicroSound manual
in preparing your responses.

1. What is the power-on sequence for the equipment in Control Room "A"?  Why
	is it this the particular sequence of events?
2. What is the power-off sequence for Control Room "A"?
3. The MicroEditor application works with sounds in what is called a Project
	Screen.  Explain the concept of "Project Editing".
4. Explain the following file types used in MicroEditor:
	a) .mix
	b) .sf2
	c) .sf
	d) .wav
	e) .mbk
5. How can one bounce 5 stereo tracks down into one stereo track using the
	MicroEditor program?
6. The Micro Technologies Unlimited MicroSound Digital Audio Workstation
	has a number of different sampling rates.  Give the number of
	possible rates.  List them all, and explain the significant of 
	any "special" sampling rates included in the list.
7. What is a Waveform View?  How do you zoom in and out of it?  What is the
	largest time window you can use and still see the waveform on the
	screen?
8. The Waveform View allows for tremendous editing control. Discuss.
9. What is a Segment View?  Explain the use of the "Positioning Window".
10. What is the limitation upon the number of segments in one project file?
	What would you do if you ran out of segments yet still have more
	elements to add to your project?
11. The MicroSound is able to simultaneously record and play.  What are the
	ramifications of this in audio post-production?
12. Explain the process of backing-up and restoring projects.  How would you
	accomplish the archiving of sound files that are not yet used within
	the context of a project?
13. What is the signal to noise ratio of the ADCs and DACs in the MicroSound?
14. What is the fast way to change between recording in mono and recording
	in stereo with the record icon?
15. How does one adjust segment fades in the project screen?  Is there more
	than one way?
16. Say you have recorded a sound and saved it to a filename as a .sf -
	how would you bring it into your project and placed it exactly
	5 seconds after the last file in the project? 
17. One of the most important features of the MicroSound for the recording
	engineer is "Dynamic Mixing".  Explain what this is, including its
	limitations.
18. What is normalizing?  Why is it important to do this with your segments 
	and projects?  When is it not really important?
19. Explain what the following are and what HOT KEYS are associated with
	them:
			a) zone markers
			b) flags
			c) segment markers
20. If you have gone beyond the default setting for Dynamic Mixing what will
	have to occur first before you can hear your project?
21. What does Snap Enable do?  When is this useful?  When is it problematic?
22. Explain what the Time Line Window is what what it is useful for.
23. What does the command icon Mark do?
24. If you save your project with one segment selected what will be the
	result?
25. There are 5 methods for changing the zoom setting for the View Window -
	describe each in detail.
26. There are 9 methods for scrolling the View Window - describe each in
	detail.
27. What does the Position Field tell you?
28. What is the easiest way to switch between analog, AES/EBU and SPDIF
	recording and playback?
29. What is a Skip Zone?  How are they activated, edited and deleted?
30. The command Split Segment does what?  When do you use a Skip Zone
	instead of this command?
31. If the sync field is set to "Xtal" what is happening?
32. If you have a corrupted .mix file - and you need to reclaim your work
	what would you do?  Why do you not want to open the corrupted
	mix file?
33. Can you copy a project to start another one?  If so, how is this 
	actually done?
34. Explain the difference between "saving as a project" and "saving
	as a sound file".
35. How does one "bounce" complex or large projects?  Explain in detail.
36. What does Compact Project do?  Why is it important to know exactly
	what you are doing when you invoke this command?
37. How many bytes will be required for a 60 second stereo sound file at 8KHz?
	At 22.05KHz? At 44.1KHz?
38. What is a soundfile header?  What kind of information does it contain.
39. When do you select the sample rate for a project?  What do you need
	to do if you want to change a sample rate?
40. How does one enable recording monitoring?

End of Part I.