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Chapter 1. Welcome to Pro Tools|HD
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Chapter 2. Windows Installation
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Installing Pro Tools HD Software
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Additional Software on the Pro Tools Installer Disc
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Chapter 3. Mac Installation
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Installing Pro Tools HD Software
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Additional Software on the Pro Tools Installer Disc
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Chapter 4. Launching and Configuring Pro Tools
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Chapter 5. Connecting Your Studio
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Example Studio Setup with a Mixing Console
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Example Studio Setup without a Mixing Console
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Connecting Equipment with Digital Audio Ins and Outs
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Connecting Ethernet Control Surfaces
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Appendix A. Connecting SCSI Drives
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Appendix B. Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance
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Avoid Recording to the System Drive
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Supported Drive Formats and Drive Types
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Using Mac Drives on Windows Systems
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Appendix C. Configuring MIDI Studio Setup (Windows Only)
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Appendix D. Configuring AMS (Mac OS X Only)
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Appendix E. DSP-Induced Delays in Mixing
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Introduction to DSP-Induced Delay
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Automatically Compensating for Delays
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Manually Compensating for Delays
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Appendix F. TDM Mixing and DSP Usage
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Appendix G. Troubleshooting
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Using DigiTest as a Diagnostic Tool
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Before You Call Digidesign Technical Support
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Table of contents
- 3 Contents
- 7 Welcome to Pro Tools|HD
- 7 Pro Tools|HD Systems
- 7 Pro Tools|HD (for PCIe) Systems
- 7 Pro Tools|HD (for PCI) Systems
- 8 Pro Tools|HD System Packages
- 8 Pro Tools HD Capabilities
- 9 Audio Recording and Playback Capabilities
- 9 Pro Tools Hardware Overview
- 9 Pro Tools|HD (for PCIe) Hardware
- 9 Accel Core (for PCIe) Card
- 10 HD Accel (for PCIe) Card
- 10 Pro Tools|HD (for PCI) Hardware
- 10 HD Core (for PCI) Card
- 11 HD Accel (for PCI) Card
- 11 TDM FlexCable
- 12 Audio Interfaces
- 12 192 I/O Audio Interface
- 12 192 Digital I/O Audio Interface
- 13 96 I/O Audio Interface
- 13 96i I/O Audio Interface
- 13 Optional Legacy I/O Audio Interfaces
- 14 System Requirements
- 14 MIDI Requirements
- 14 Hard Drive Requirements
- 14 Avoid Recording to the System Drive
- 15 Digidesign Registration
- 15 About the Pro Tools Guides
- 15 Conventions Used in This Guide
- 16 About www.digidesign.com
- 17 Windows Installation
- 17 Installation Overview
- 17 Configuring Your Computer
- 17 Configuring the System BIOS
- 18 Configuring the SCSI BIOS
- 18 Modifying the Computer’s SCSI BIOS
- 18 Updating the ATTO SCSI BIOS
- 19 Installing SCSI Drivers
- 19 Installing the ATTO SCSI Driver
- 19 Windows System Optimization
- 19 Required Optimizations
- 20 Enabling DMA
- 20 Disabling System Standby and Power Management
- 20 Disabling ClearType Font Smoothing
- 21 Recommended Optimizations
- 21 Re-enabling Hyper-Threading
- 21 Optional Optimizations
- 21 Disabling Network Cards
- 21 Adjusting Processor Scheduling
- 22 Disabling Hyper-Threading
- 22 Disabling System Startup Items
- 23 Installing Pro Tools Hardware
- 23 Disabling Driver Signing Warnings
- 23 Installing Pro Tools|HD Cards
- 24 Connecting Pro Tools|HD Cards
- 25 Connecting Audio Interfaces
- 26 Connecting Loop Sync
- 26 Connecting Legacy Audio Interfaces
- 28 Connecting an Additional 16 Channels of Audio with Legacy Audio Interfaces
- 29 Installing Pro Tools HD Software
- 30 Installing QuickTime
- 30 Additional Software on the Pro Tools Installer Disc
- 31 Windows Audio Drivers
- 31 Standalone Digidesign ASIO Driver
- 31 Pro Tools Demo Session
- 32 Removing Pro Tools
- 33 Mac Installation
- 33 Installation Overview
- 33 Mac System Optimization
- 33 Turning Off Software Update
- 34 Turning Off Energy Saver
- 34 Setting Processor Performance
- 34 Disabling Spotlight Indexing
- 34 Disabling the Spotlight Shortcuts
- 34 Disabling Dashboard and Exposé
- 34 Enabling Journaling for Audio Drives
- 35 Installing Pro Tools Hardware
- 35 Installing Pro Tools|HD Cards
- 37 Connecting Pro Tools|HD Cards
- 38 Connecting Audio Interfaces
- 39 Connecting Loop Sync
- 39 Connecting Legacy Audio Interfaces
- 41 Connecting an Additional 16 Channels of Audio with Legacy Audio Interfaces
- 42 Installing Pro Tools HD Software
- 43 Additional Software on the Pro Tools Installer Disc
- 43 Digidesign CoreAudio Driver
- 43 Pro Tools Demo Session
- 44 Removing Pro Tools
- 45 Launching and Configuring Pro Tools
- 45 Checking the System
- 45 Starting Up Your System
- 45 Running DigiTest
- 46 Errors and Undetected Cards
- 47 Identifying Digidesign Cards with DigiTest
- 47 Viewing Card Information with DigiTest
- 48 Updating Audio Peripheral Firmware with DigiTest
- 48 Launching Pro Tools
- 48 Configuring Pro Tools
- 48 Pro Tools System Settings
- 49 Hardware Buffer Size
- 49 RTAS Processors
- 50 CPU Usage Limit
- 50 RTAS Engine (RTAS Error Suppression)
- 51 Number of Voices
- 52 Default Sample Rate
- 52 Delay Compensation Engine
- 53 DAE Playback Buffer Size
- 53 System Memory Allocation
- 54 MIDI Studio Setup
- 54 Audio MIDI Setup (AMS)
- 54 Pro Tools Hardware Settings
- 54 Default Sample Rate
- 54 Clock Source
- 55 Configuring Audio Interfaces
- 59 Configuring I/O Setup
- 60 Routing a Pro Tools Output Pair to Multiple Destinations
- 61 Backing Up your System Configuration
- 63 Connecting Your Studio
- 63 Setting Up Your Studio
- 64 Example Studio Setup with a Mixing Console
- 65 Example Studio Setup without a Mixing Console
- 66 192 I/O
- 66 192 Digital I/O
- 66 96 I/O
- 66 96i I/O
- 66 Connecting Equipment with Digital Audio Ins and Outs
- 67 Connecting Effects Units
- 67 Connecting Effects Units Digitally
- 68 Connecting MIDI Devices
- 68 Connecting SMPTE Synchronization Devices
- 68 Digidesign SYNC I/O
- 69 Connecting Ethernet Control Surfaces
- 71 Connecting SCSI Drives
- 71 SCSI Requirements
- 72 SCSI Cables
- 72 Distribute Audio Across Multiple Drives
- 72 Separate Video and Audio Files
- 72 Dual-Channel SCSI HBA Cards
- 72 Connecting SCSI Drives
- 73 SCSI Termination
- 75 Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance
- 75 Avoid Recording to the System Drive
- 75 Supported Drive Formats and Drive Types
- 75 Drive Formats
- 76 SCSI Hard Drives
- 76 FireWire Hard Drives
- 76 IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives
- 76 Formatting an Audio Drive
- 76 Formatting Windows Audio Drives
- 78 Formatting Mac Audio Drives
- 78 Partitioning Drives
- 78 Seek Times on Partitioned Drives
- 79 Defragmenting an Audio Drive
- 79 Mac Systems
- 79 Window Systems
- 79 Optimizing (Defragmenting) Drives
- 79 Backing Up Data Before Optimizing
- 80 Defragmenting Windows Audio Drives
- 80 Using Mac Drives on Windows Systems
- 80 Formatting and Maintaining HFS+ Drives
- 81 Hard Disk Storage Space
- 83 Configuring MIDI Studio Setup (Windows Only)
- 83 MIDI Studio Setup
- 83 MIDI Studio Setup Window
- 83 Interface Controls
- 84 Instrument List
- 84 Properties Section
- 85 MIDI Patch Name Support
- 87 Configuring AMS (Mac OS X Only)
- 87 Audio MIDI Setup
- 90 MIDI Patch Name Support
- 91 DSP-Induced Delays in Mixing
- 91 Introduction to DSP-Induced Delay
- 92 When to Compensate
- 92 How to Compensate
- 92 Automatically Compensating for Delays
- 92 Delay Compensation
- 93 TimeAdjuster and Delay Compensation
- 93 Manually Compensating for Delays
- 94 Using TimeAdjuster TDM Plug-In
- 95 Nudging Audio Tracks
- 95 Sample Rate and How it Affects Delay
- 95 Delay Factors
- 95 Bouncing Tracks
- 95 Using Plug-In Inserts
- 96 Using Sends
- 96 Using Hardware I/O
- 97 TDM Mixing and DSP Usage
- 97 Benefits of TDM II
- 97 TDM (or TDM I)
- 98 TDM II
- 99 DSP Allocation
- 99 DSP Allocation Basics
- 99 Mixing and DSP Usage
- 99 DSP Manager
- 100 Monitoring DSP Usage
- 101 Setting up Sessions to Use DSP Efficiently
- 101 DSP Usage and Mixer Plug-Ins
- 101 Understanding Mixers
- 102 Submixing
- 102 Mixers and DSP Hardware
- 104 48-Bit Mixing Precision
- 104 Mixer Headroom
- 104 Mixer Automatiion
- 105 Stereo and Surround Dithered Mixers
- 105 A Note About Dithering to 16-Bit and Dither Plug-Ins
- 105 Mixer Plug-Ins
- 106 Plug-In Features
- 106 Standard Surround and Stereo Mixers
- 106 Surround Dithered and Stereo Dithered Mixers
- 106 Switching Mixer Plug-Ins
- 106 Mixer Usage Guidelines
- 107 DSP Usage with TDM PlugIns
- 109 Troubleshooting
- 109 Backing Up Your Work
- 109 Backing Up Your Session Data
- 109 Backing Up Your System Configuration
- 109 Common Issues
- 109 Pro Tools Won’t Launch
- 109 Problem
- 109 Possible Solutions
- 110 Audio Interface Is Not Recognized
- 110 Problem
- 110 Possible Solutions
- 110 Using DigiTest as a Diagnostic Tool
- 110 Performance Factors
- 111 Before You Call Digidesign Technical Support
- 111 Register Your System
- 111 Use Digidesign Resources
- 111 Gather Important Information
- 111 System Information
- 112 Diagnostic Information
- 113 Index