User manual M-AUDIO PRO TOOLS SE

[. . . ] Pro Tools SE User Guide ® Version 8. 0. 3 Legal Notices This guide is copyrighted ©2010 by Avid Technology, Inc. , (hereafter "Avid"), with all rights reserved. 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Product features, specifications, system requirements, and availability are subject to change without notice. [. . . ] For details on Administrator privileges, refer to your Windows documentation. 2 Go to C:\Program Files\Digidesign\ Authorizing the MP3 Export Option The MP3 Export Option is a paid option and can be purchased and authorized when you export an audio file as an MP3. To authorize the MP3 Export Option using an authorization code: 1 Launch Pro Tools. Pro Tools\Pro Tools Utilities and double-click Uninstall Pro Tools. exe. 3 Click Next. 4 Click Uninstall to proceed with the uninstallation. Chapter 3: Installing Pro Tools on Windows 15 16 Pro Tools SE User Guide chapter 4 Configuring Your Pro Tools System After you have connected your system and installed Pro Tools software, you are ready to start up and configure your Pro Tools system. 6 With the volume of all output devices low- Starting Up or Shutting Down Your System To ensure that the components of your Pro Tools system communicate properly with each other, you need to start them in a particular order. Start up your Pro Tools system in this order: 1 Make sure all your equipment (including your computer) is off. 2 Lower the volume of all output devices in your ered, turn on your Pro Tools SE audio interfaces. Wait at least fifteen seconds for the audio interface to initialize and the status LEDs to stop flashing 7 Turn on your computer. 8 Launch Pro Tools or any third-party audio or MIDI applications. 9 Bring the output levels up to a comfortable lis- tening level. Shut down your Pro Tools system in this order: 1 Quit Pro Tools and any other running applica- tions. system (especially the main outputs to your speakers!). 3 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait ap- To quit Pro Tools, choose Pro Tools > Quit (Mac) or File > Exit (Windows). 2 Turn off or lower the volume of all output devices in your system. 4 For Pro Tools SE systems that use hardware requiring external power, turn off the hardware. 5 Turn off any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or synchronization peripherals. 7 Turn off any external hard drives. proximately ten seconds for them to spin up to speed. 4 Turn on any control surfaces. 5 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or synchronization peripherals. Chapter 4: Configuring Your Pro Tools System 17 Configuring Pro Tools SE Pro Tools System Settings Pro Tools SE provides preference settings that let you quickly adjust the performance of your system by changing system settings that affect its capacity for processing, playback, and recording. 2 Choose Pro Tools SE > Preferences (Mac) or File > Preferences (Windows). 3 Click the tab (Audio, Control Surfaces, or Ses- Recording or Performing Sets the minimum delay when recording real or software instruments. Mixing or Producing Sets the maximum number of audio tracks, instrument tracks and plug-ins. Use this option when preparing music for CD or MP3, constructing music from loops, or if the sound is cutting out. sion) for the page that has the preferences you want to change. 4 Change preferences. 5 Click OK to save your changes and close the Preferences dialog. Audio Tab Using this tab, you can quickly choose and set up your computer for "Recording or Performing" or "Mixing or Producing" tasks. If you have an audio device with more than two outputs, Pro Tools SE automatically uses the first two. Audio Device Displays the audio device connected to your system. Pro Tools Preferences dialog (Audio tab shown) Control Surfaces Tab This tab lets your configure one MIDI control surface keyboard for Pro Tools SE. Control Surfaces tab (Oxygen Direct Link shown) 18 Pro Tools SE User Guide MIDI Control Surface 1 Lets you select the MIDI control surface connected to your computer and defaults to the selected choice. When selected, all ports of the control surface are enabled and all ports on any other control surfaces are disabled. [. . . ] · Make sure Enable file and folder compression is not selected. · Click OK. 4 If the volume is "Unallocated, " do the following: computer, select Install Mac OS 9 Drivers (Mac OS 9 options only appear in 10. 5 or below). 7 Click Erase. The drive appears on the Desktop with the new volume name. Formatting Windows Audio Drives For optimal performance, audio drives should be formatted as NTFS. Pro Tools only supports Basic drive types. Do not convert the drive to a Dynamic type. To format an audio drive (Windows 7 and Windows XP): 1 Right-click Computer (Windows 7) or My Com- · In the Disk Management window, Rightclick the hard drive you will use for audio and choose New Partition. · When prompted, select the partition type. puter (Windows XP) and choose Manage. 2 Under Storage, choose Disk Management. Avid recommends using Primary partitions, instead of Extended partitions. · Follow the on-screen instructions to select a partition size and other partition settings. [. . . ]