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USB stands for:
Universal Serial Bus
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Maximum number of external devices in USB
127
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Maximum number of external devices in Firewire
63
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What kind of connector is at either end of an old MIDI cable and what is its gender?
5 Pin DIN & Male
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Max MIDI cable length
50 ft
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Max USB cable length
5 meters
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Max Firewire 400 cable length
4.5 meters
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Max Firewire 800 cable length
100 meters (about the size of a football field)
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Max Thunderbolt length
3 meters
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MIDI spec 1.0, how many pins used?
3
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List of System Messages:
- System-Common
- MTC Quarter-Frame
- Song Position Pointer
- Song Select
- Tune Request
- End Of Exclusive
- System Real-Time
- Timing Clock
- Start
- Stop
- Continue
- Active Sensing
- System Reset
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500 milliamps at what voltage for USB?
5 volts DC or .5 amps
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How many ticks per modern time clock message?
960
Also, in MIDI, there are 960 ticks per quarter note a.k.a. 960 ppq (pulses per quarter)
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On the MIDI connector, pin 2 is used for what?
Shield to ground
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What's the shield?
-It is connected to the shield ground and there's usually a drain wire that runs down a balanced, shielded cable.
-Protective coating around the rubber covered connectors - the metal shield that protects the insulating conductors from invasions from electromagnetic interference.
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What is a USB hub?
Traffic cop. Works in bursts - it has to wait for its own outgoing to catch up with the incoming info.
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Keyboard controllers have how many keys?
25-88
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Features of a keyboard controller:
- Pitch bend & modulation
- Octave shift
- Mixing and transport capabilities for controlling DAW programs using the faders and buttons
- Drum sample trigger pads
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Craig Anderton proposed what for MIDI in 1989?
MIDI Phantom Power
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MIDI Thru Jack does what?
- Sends out a duplicate of what's coming in on the in jack.
- Any new info that's added there will not appear.
- It's for daisy chaining.
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USB 3.1 gives us how much throughput?
10 Gbps
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Thuderbolt gives us how much throughput?
10 Gbps on two channels and is only 3 years old!
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Firewire protocol - when and by whom?
Presented by Apple in the mid-1990s. Developed by Intel.
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MIDI Port and MIDI Jack difference?
MIDI Jack = physical connection on the back of the device
MIDI Port = virtual
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Multiple port situation that occurs in this extended building?
Both SSL boards do their HUI work via MIDI.
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What is USB Protocol?
Class compliant and can recognize & manage 127 external devices.
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How fast is:
USB 1.0, 1.0 (2nd version), 2.0, 3.0, & 3.1
- 1.0 = 1.5 Mbps
- 1.0 (2nd version) = 12 Mbps
- 2.0 = 480 Mbps
- 3.0 = 5 Gbps
- 3.1 = 10 Gbps
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How fast is:
Thunderbolt 1.0 & 2.0
- 1.0 = 10 Gbps on two channels
- 2.0 = 20 Gbps
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