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What study by Harvey Fletcher Wilden Munson in 1930 represents the ears sensitivity to various frequencies
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The Equal Loudness Curve
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What consists of multiple modules such as filters, voltage, controller oscillators, and envelope generators
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A Modular Synthesyzer
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Who made the most significant contribution to modern electric music using the moog
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Bob Moog
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What relaes to the timing between audio events
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Proximity
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What is designed to harness the processing power of the cpu
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Host Based DAW's
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what occurs when two high frequency radio waves are combined
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Heterodyning
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What are instruments that create sound with a vibriting wire
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Chordophones
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What creates sound with a vibrating skin drumhead
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Membroaophone
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what instrument ceates sounds through vibrations of its entire body.
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Idiophone
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What type of sound is created by a vibrating colum of air
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Aerophone
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Who made the musical Telegraph
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Alecia Grey
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What is being aware of or affected by the content of the sound by linking not only the source but its emotional and dramatic meaning
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Referential Listening
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What was the most popular synthesiser
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Yamaha dx7
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What effect occurs when multiple sounds being combined to create a massive, complex sound
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Common Fate
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Who made the most significant contribution to modern electric music
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Bob Moog
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what is the amount of bits per sample(quantization)
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Digital Word
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What is a device that generates a signal; the heartbeat of a synthesizer
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Oscilators
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Name the wave forms produced by the oscilators
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Sine,Triangle,Square,Sawtooth
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What is the theory that states the sampling rate must be at least twice the highest recorded frequency
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Nyquest Theory
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what is A broad range of recording devices that utilize the computer as the basis for recording, editing, processing, mixing, and playback of digital audio called
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Digital Audio workstation
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What is aliasing
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a scratchy high pitched audio tone and that tone is the aliesed frequency
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which filter takes out low frequency
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High pass frequency
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which filter takes out high frequencies
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Low pass frequency
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Name the four envelope generators
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ADSR- Attack Decay Sustain, Release
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How is quantization represented
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As Binary information using bits, each of which has a value of 1 and 0
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What are add-on programs that expand the functionality of a host program
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Plug-ins
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What reffers to the ability of the human mind to distingish an individual figure or sound from a backround of various sound
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Figurin and Ground
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what are the five steps involved in the actual conversion of analong signal to digital word
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Anti alesing, Sample and Hold, , analoge to digital conversion, digital to analogue conversion, Data modulation
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what are the advantages of analoge recording to digital recording
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Infinite sound possibility and warmth(distortion)
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advantates of digital audio
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Noise reduction, editing ease, no generation loss
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What are some disk based recordors
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Minidisk, Digital audio workstations, and Cd Recorder
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What is broadcast audio sample rate
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32khz
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what is dvd A
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96khz
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max dvd a is how much
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192khz
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Name some temporal based effects
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Delay, Reverbs, Echo, Flanger
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What is the standard recording sample rate
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24khz
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what are some types of dynamic effects
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Compressors, Equalizer, Filters, Envelopes
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What is aliesing
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when you create a foldover frequency by not follwing the nyquest theory
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What is the first harmonic
Definition
Inital vibration
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What occurs whn a soft sound is followed by a loud sound
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backward masking
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What is the summation of multiple echos
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Reverberation
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What are individual reflections or bounces off a surface
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echo
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What are individual reflections or bounces off a surface
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echo
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What refers to the color of sound
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Timbre
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what is heterodyning
Definition
when two radio waves are combined an example is the theramin
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What single sound is attributed to a single source
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Belongingness
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what occurs when 2 sounds of the same pitch are played simultaniously, the louder of the two sounds hides the softer sound
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Masking
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Describe how to make an objec seem farther away
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Reduce the mids and highs
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what are components of the inner ear
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Cochelea, Cila
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What is the actual hearing mechanism of the ear
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Cochela
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What is the 1-inch, horn-shaped passage within the skull that directs sounds captured by the pinna into the middle ear
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The Ear Canal
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What is the transducer that converts acoustic energy into mechanical energy.
Definition
Eardrum
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what happens when a loud sound precedes a soft sound
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foward masking
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What are two parts of the outer ear
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the pinna, and the eardrum
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when two tones are heard at approximately one third of an octave the increase in percived intensity is not as much as when the two fall outside of this
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Critical Frequency Band
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