The first format that uses a shorthand representation of musical notes and durations stored in numeric form is
MP3
MIDI
DSP
MPEG
2. Multiple Choice
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Which of the statement is false regarding MIDI?
the sound can easily be changed by any instruments
spoken audio can be recorded by MIDI
the MIDI files size is smaller than digital audio file
3. Multiple Choice
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The process of recording a sound, stored in the form of thousands of individual measurements, each at a discrete point in time, is called
sizing
synthesizing
quantizing
sampling
4. Multiple Choice
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Which of the following sound file characteristics doesn't directly affect the size of a digital audio file?
Sample rate
Sample size
Volume
Compression
5. Multiple Choice
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Sample each individual measurement of a sound that is stored as digital information is called what
buffering
sampling
streamming
byting
6. Multiple Choice
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Audio recorded 44.1 kHz (kilohertz), 16-bit stereo is considered as a ______ quality
CD
MP3
player
DVD
7. Multiple Choice
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Removing blank space or "dead air" at the beginning or end of a recording is sometimes called as
quieting
flashing
trimming
quantizing
8. Multiple Choice
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Sequencing software is uses to
places audio clips in order in a soundtrack
record and edit the MIDI data
manage audio project in timeline
synchronize images with sound track
9. Multiple Choice
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The process of playing a sound file while part of the file is still downloading is called
streaming
wait-and-downloading
live
show-in-live
10. Multiple Choice
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A reduction in the number of separate measurements in an audio file is called a what
compression
downsampling
resampling
dithering
11. Multiple Choice
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Sound pressure levels (loudness or volume) are measured in ______
decibels
hertz
cms-1
ms-1
12. Multiple Choice
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The branch of physics that studies sound is ______
sound art
acoustics
audio-editing
13. Multiple Choice
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The slower an user connection, the longer the user must wait for enough of the sound to download so that the entire file will have downloaded by the time the sound reaches the end. This effect is called as ________
the streaming latency
the streaming
the downsampling
the dithering
14. Multiple Choice
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Media player are designed to play files as soon as enough of the data is cached in your computer's ___________
memory
buffer
ram
harddisk
15. Multiple Choice
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When the levels on your recording device are too high, the result created is _________
distortion
residual noise
equalization
downsampling
16. Multiple Choice
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Which of the following is the branch of physics that studies sound?
Acoustics
Optics
Electromagnetics
Atomics
17. Multiple Choice
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Which of the following is created when you represent the characteristics of a sound wave using numbers?
MIDI
Digital audio
Bit depth
Audacity
18. Multiple Choice
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In Windows, digitized sounds are usually stored as what kind of files?
AIFF
CDA
WAV
AWB
19. Multiple Choice
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A __________ is software that compresses a stream of audio or video data for storage or transmission and then decompresses it for playback.
kalimba
nibama
sequencer
codec
20. Multiple Choice
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In the world of professional film and video production, sound is incorporated during __________.