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Music Technology

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a DAW?

a)

Dynamic Allegro Woodwind

b)

Descant Adagio Waltz

c)

Digital Audio Workstation

d)

Drum And Waldhorn

2.

Which of the following can you do using a DAW?

(Select more than one)

a)

Edit

b)

Record

c)

Mix

3.

Which two are examples of DAWs?

a)

Soundtrap

b)

Flat.io

c)

Noteflight

d)

Bandlab

4.

What do the letters in MIDI stand for?

a)

Musical Instrument Decrescendo Immediately

b)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

c)

Musical Instrument Diminution Imitation

d)

Musical Instrument Discord Interval

5.

What is MIDI?

a)

Electrical energy that represents sound.

b)

A digital interface that stores notation, pitch, volume, and velocity info for sampled or synthesized instruments.

c)

Noise

6.

What is audio?

a)

Electrical energy that represents sound.

b)

A digital interface that stores notation, pitch, volume, and velocity info for sampled or synthesized instruments.

c)

Noise

7.

What is synth short for?

a)

Synthesis

b)

Synthetic

c)

Synthesiser

d)

Synthy synthy

8.

What is a synthesiser?

a)

someone who makes synthetic products out of chemicals or artificial materials.

b)

a sub-genre of New Wave music.

c)

a keyboard instrument that generates sound electronically.

9.

Which electronic instrument that creates sounds and timbres digitally was commonly used in 80s pop music?

a)

Organ

b)

Synthesiser

c)

Harpsicord

d)

Vibraphone

10.

Reverb is short for?

a)

Reverbness

b)

Reverberation

c)

Reverbing

d)

Reverbs

11.

The reverb effect makes a recording sound...

a)

like it was recorded in a large space

b)

like it is going slower

c)

like it is louder

d)

like it is quieter

12.

Which is digital alternative to an acoustic drum kit?

a)

Vocoder

b)

Theramin

c)

Mellotron

d)

Drum machine

13.

TRUE or FALSE

Music loops are recorded sounds or phrases that play over and over again.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What is quantisation?

a)

A method for changing the pitch of a note

b)

A method for pulling rhythms into time

c)

A method for changing tempo

d)

A method for changing volume

15.
What is mixing?
a)
Balancing the sounds
b)
Using multiple layers
c)
Sharing the project with others
d)
Adding more instruments
16.

What is sampling in music?

a)

the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in a new recording.

b)

trying out a new music genre.

c)

playing many different instruments.