This schedule lists the short online quizzes given during the term, as well as the material each quiz covers.

The material covered by each quiz will be reviewed in class. A quiz may cover all of the reading done since the last quiz. Makeup quizzes are given only in the case of excused absences.

Please note that the Week column does not give the particular day for a quiz. It could be any day during the week the quiz is listed, or even the following week.

Week	Topic	Quiz	Material
Week 1		No quiz
Week 2		No quiz
Week 3		No quiz
Week 4	Basic acoustics: sound waves amplitude, SPL	Quiz 1	Acoustics reading Quiz 1 Study Guide
Week 5	More acoustics: periodic waves, waveform displays, Fourier analysis; harmonic partials, additive synthesis, inharmonic partials	Quiz 2	Acoustics 1 app Quiz 2 Study Guide
Week 6	More acoustics: periodic waveform types, dynamic spectra, aperiodic waveforms, pitch and frequency, harmonic series	Quiz 3	Acoustics 2 app Quiz 3 Study Guide
Week 7	MIDI hardware, General MIDI, Standard MIDI Files, MIDI messages	Quiz 4	MIDI reading MIDI Messages app (1–2) Quiz 4 Study Guide
Week 8	More MIDI messages: note-on and note-off, with velocity; aftertouch, control change, pitch bend, program change	Quiz 5	MIDI Messages app (3–6) Quiz 5 Study Guide
Week 9	Synthesis with Reason, filters, modulation with LFOs	No quiz
Week 10	Sampling, CV and pattern sequencing	Quiz 6	Modulation app (1–4) Quiz 6 Study Guide
Week 11	Introduction to audio files in Reason, digital audio concepts, formants and pitch correction	No quiz
Week 12	Digital audio concepts	Quiz 7	Digital Audio 1 Quiz 7 Study Guide
Week 13	How basic audio effects work: Filters and EQ, vocoder	Quiz 8	Digital Audio 2 Quiz 8 Study Guide
Week 14	Delay effects; dynamics processing	Quiz 9	Filters and EQ Delay Effects Dynamics Effects Quiz 9 Study Guide
Week 15	More dynamics processing, mastering, MP3 and AAC files	No quiz