This schedule lists the short quizzes given during the term, as well as the material each quiz covers. Each quiz will unlock on the Monday morning of the week in which the quiz is listed. The quiz will close on Sunday at midnight at the end of that week.
Most weeks will have one quiz only, but note that weeks 2 and 3 each include two quizzes.
To prepare, see the Material column. These materials are also linked in the Canvas Module for the current week.
The quizzes are “open book” — you may refer to review videos, apps, web pages, your notes, etc. when taking a quiz. You will have only one attempt for each quiz.
Be sure to submit the quiz (using the Submit button)! Then you will be able to see your grade in the Grades tab in Canvas.
Grades: each quiz has 5 multiple-choice questions; each question counts 8 points. Therefore a perfect quiz score is 40.
| Week | Topic | Quiz | Material |
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| Week 1 | No quiz | ||
| Week 2 | Basic acoustics: sound waves amplitude, SPL | Quiz 1 |
Acoustics reading Quiz 1 Study Guide Quiz 1 Review Video |
| More acoustics: periodic waves, waveform displays, Fourier analysis; harmonic partials, additive synthesis, inharmonic partials | Quiz 2 |
Acoustics 1 app Quiz 2 Study Guide Quiz 2 Review Video |
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| Week 3 | More acoustics: periodic waveform types, dynamic spectra, aperiodic waveforms, pitch and frequency, harmonic series | Quiz 3 |
Acoustics 2 app Quiz 3 Study Guide Quiz 3 Review Video |
| MIDI hardware, General MIDI, Standard MIDI Files, MIDI messages | Quiz 4 |
MIDI reading MIDI Messages app (1–2) Quiz 4 Study Guide Quiz 4 Review Video |
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| Week 4 | MIDI hardware, General MIDI, Standard MIDI Files; MIDI messages: note-on and note-off, aftertouch, control change, pitch bend | Quiz 5 |
MIDI reading MIDI Messages app (1–5) Quiz 5 Study Guide Quiz 5 Review Video |
| Week 5 | Synthesis with Reason, filters, modulation with LFOs | Quiz 6 |
Modulation app (1–4) Quiz 6 Study Guide |
| Week 6 | Digital audio concepts: ADC chain, sampling rate, aliasing, sampling resolution, lossy compression | Quiz 7 |
Digital Audio 1 Digital Audio 2 Quiz 7 Study Guide Quiz 7 Review Video |
| Week 7 | Digital audio concepts: sampling resolution, lossy compression | Quiz 8 |
Digital Audio 2 Quiz 8 Study Guide Quiz 8 Review Video |
| Week 8 | No quiz |