User manual PRO TOOLS M-POWERED VERSION 7.4

[. . . ] Getting Started Pro Tools M-PoweredTM Version 7. 4 Legal Notices This guide is copyrighted ©2007 by Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc. 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Product features, specifications, system requirements, and availability are subject to change without notice. [. . . ] The Plug-in Streaming Buffer Size pop-up menu is unavailable when this option is selected. To set Pro Tools to optimize the Plug-in Streaming Buffer Size: 1 Choose Setup > Playback Engine. 3 Click OK. 24 Pro Tools M-Powered Getting Started Pro Tools Hardware Settings and M-Audio Control Panel The Hardware Setup dialog in Pro Tools (Setup > Hardware) displays the name of your M-Audio peripheral, and tells you that various hardware functions can be changed in the M-Audio Control Panel. Using the M-Audio Control Panel, you can change settings in the following areas: · Mixer Settings · Output Settings · Hardware Settings (including sample rate, hardware buffer size, and sync source). Sync Source (Pro Tools Clock Source) If your M-Audio interface has a digital I/O (such as a S/PDIF I/O), use the M-Audio Control Panel to select the Sync Source for the system. With Pro Tools M-Powered, Sync Source cannot be set in the Pro Tools Session Setup window. To select the Sync Source: 1 If Pro Tools M-Powered is running, exit Pro Tools. 2 Choose Start > Control Panel. 3 Launch the M-Audio Control Panel as follows: You can change the sample rate when creating a new Pro Tools session by selecting a different sample rate in the New Session dialog. (Refer to the Pro Tools Reference Guide for details. ) To change M-Audio Control Panel settings: 1 If Pro Tools M-Powered is running, exit · For FireWire interfaces, launch M-Audio FW Audio. · For USB Interfaces, launch the M-Audio control panel with the name of your interface. 4 Click the Hardware tab. 5 Select a Sync Source. Pro Tools. 2 Choose Start > Control Panel. 3 Launch the M-Audio Control Panel as follows: · For FireWire interfaces, launch M-Audio FW Audio. · For USB Interfaces, launch the M-Audio control panel with the name of your interface. 4 To change settings in the M-Audio Control Your digital input device must be connected and turned on. If your input device is not turned on, leave the Sync Source set to Internal. For more information on selecting the Sync Source for your M-Audio interface, refer to your M-Audio interface documentation. 6 Click OK. Panel, refer to the documentation that came with your M-Audio interface. 5 When finished, close the M-Audio Control Panel. Chapter 5: Configuring Your Pro Tools System 25 Low Latency Monitoring Direct or low-latency monitoring is not available from within Pro Tools M-Powered. However, with M-Audio devices that have Control Panel mixers with a direct monitoring feature, it is possible to use this feature as a low-latency monitoring path while recording in Pro Tools. To use the M-Audio mixer direct monitoring feature while recording: 1 In Pro Tools, record-enable the tracks you 4 Adjust the output level and balance with the Control Panel mixer volume and pan controls. 5 In Pro Tools, begin recording. 6 To listen back to the recorded tracks, unmute the tracks in Pro Tools and begin playback. 7 When you are finished recording, turn off the mixer output control in the Control Panel mixer. You can leave the M-Audio Control Panel open while working in Pro Tools M-Powered. want to record and mute their output. 2 Open the M-Audio Control Panel for your M- Configuring I/O Setup Using the I/O Setup dialog, you can label Pro Tools input, output, insert, and bus signal paths. The I/O Setup dialog provides a graphical representation of the inputs, outputs, and signal routing of the M-Audio interface. Audio interface. 3 In the Control Panel mixer for your interface, route the input channels you want to monitor to the main outputs of the mixer (usually Outputs 1­2) by clicking the corresponding output control. Pro Tools M-Powered bypasses the M-Audio mixer that is displayed in the M-Audio Control Panel. The interface's hardware inputs and outputs show up directly in Pro Tools I/O Setup. Pro Tools M-Powered has default I/O Setup settings that will get you started. Use the I/O Setup dialog only if you want to rename or remap the default I/O paths. Mixer output 1­2 control Control Panel mixer for M-Audio FireWire 410) 26 Pro Tools M-Powered Getting Started To rename I/O paths in I/O Setup: 1 Choose Setup > I/O. Configuring MIDI Setup If you plan to use any MIDI devices with Pro Tools, do one of the following: On Windows, configure your MIDI setup with MIDI Studio Setup. See Appendix A, "Configuring MIDI Studio Setup (Windows Only)" for details. ­ or ­ On Mac, configure your MIDI setup with Audio MIDI Setup. See Appendix B, "Configuring AMS (Mac OS X Only)" for details. Backing Up Your System Configuration I/O Setup dialog for Pro Tools M-Powered (M-Audio FireWire 1814 shown) 2 Click the Input, Output, Insert, or Bus tab to display the corresponding connections. 3 To change the name of a path or subpath, After configuring your system and Pro Tools, you should save an image of your system drive using a backup utility such as Norton Ghost. [. . . ] Smaller partitions perform faster than larger partitions, but this comes at the expense of contiguous storage space. When you partition a drive, you will need to find the compromise that best suits your performance and storage requirements. Disk Utility (Mac OS X) 2 Click the Erase tab. 3 Select the drive you want to initialize in the column on the left side of the window. 4 Choose the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for- mat. Do not choose the "Case-Sensitive" format option. Pro Tools will not operate properly with case-sensitive formatted drives. 5 Type a name for the new volume. [. . . ]