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Chapter 4: Configuring Your System 21
Turning Off Energy Saver
To turn off the Energy Saver feature:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Energy Saver.
2 Click the Sleep tab and do the following:
• Set the computer sleep setting to Never.
• Set the display sleep setting to Never.
• Deselect Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when
possible option.
Setting Processor Performance
To set the Processor Performance:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Energy Saver.
2 Click the Options tab and set Processor Perfor-
mance to Highest.
Disable or Reassign Mac Keyboard
Shortcuts Used by Pro Tools
To have the full complement of Pro Tools
M-Powered Essential keyboard shortcuts, you
need to disable or reassign any conflicting Mac
OS X Keyboard Shortcuts in the Apple System
Preferences, including the following:
• “Show Help menu”
• Under “Keyboard Navigation”
• “Move focus to the window drawer”
• Under “Dock, Exposé, and Dashboard”
• “Automatically hide and show the Dock”
•“All windows”
• “Application windows”
•“Desktop”
•“Dashboard”
•“Spaces”
• Under “Spotlight”
• “Show Spotlight search field”
• “Show Spotlight window”
To disable or reassign Mac OS X keyboard
shortcuts:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Keyboard & Mouse.
2 Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
3 Do one of the following:
• Deselect the Mac OS X options that conflict
with Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts.
– or –
• Assign different, non-conflicting keyboard
shortcuts to the corresponding Mac OS X
options.
Reassign Spaces Keyboard Shortcuts
If you want to use Spaces, you should reassign
the Spaces keyboard shortcuts to avoid conflicts
with important Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts.
You can reassign Spaces keyboard shortcuts to
use a combination of modifier keys (Com-
mand+Option+Control+Shift) in addition to
the default Spaces keyboard shortcut assign-
ments to avoid these conflicts.
To reassign Spaces keyboard shortcuts to use
modifier key combinations that do not conflict
with Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Exposé & Spaces.
2 Click the Spaces tab.
3 Ensure that Enable Spaces is selected.
For a complete list of Pro Tools keyboard
shortcuts, see the Keyboard Shortcuts Guide
(Help > Keyboard Shortcuts).
Содержание
- User guide p.1
- Legal notices p.2
- Documentation feedback p.2
- Contents p.3
- Chapter 4 configuring your syste p.3
- Chapter 3 installing pro tools on window p.3
- Chapter 2 installing pro tools on ma p.3
- Chapter 1 welcome to pro tools m powered essentia p.3
- Appendix b resource p.4
- Appendix a hard drive configuration and maintenanc p.4
- For a list of qualified m audio interfaces and minimum system requirements refer to the compatibility information on the digidesign website www digidesign com compatibil ity p.5
- Chapter 1 p.5
- Welcome to pro tools m powered essential p.5
- Pro tools uses your computer s cpu to mix and process audio tracks host processing computers with faster clock speeds yield the best performance and more plug in processing p.5
- Pro tools m powered essential systems p.5
- Pro tools m powered essential capabilities p.5
- What menus with icons mean p.6
- System requirements and compatibility p.6
- Shuffle mode and spot mode are the equivalent of menu items that have the non supported feature icon p.6
- Learning about pro tools m powered p.6
- How pro tools m powered essential differs from pro tools m powered p.6
- Display m powered purchase reminders p.6
- Important notices include information that could affect your data or the performance of your system p.7
- Hard drive requirements p.7
- For more information see appendix a hard drive configuration and maintenance p.7
- Cross references point to related sections in this guide and other pro tools or m audio guides p.7
- Conventions used in this guide p.7
- Always back up any important data on your drive before formatting it as it will erase all data on the drive p.7
- User tips are helpful hints for getting the most from your pro tools system p.7
- Shortcuts show you useful keyboard or mouse shortcuts p.7
- Only usb midi interfaces are compatible with pro tools systems for mac os x modem to serial port adapters and serial midi devices are not supported p.7
- Midi requirements p.7
- Installing pro tools on mac p.9
- Installing pro tools m powered essential software p.9
- Installation overview p.9
- For information on connecting your m audio interface see the printed m audio hardware interface guide that came with it p.9
- For details on administrator privileges in mac os x see your apple os x documen tation p.9
- Chapter 2 p.9
- You also have the option of choosing the location where the loops and demo songs are installed p.10
- The pro tools installer disc includes addi tional software for your system for more in formation see additional software on the pro tools installer disc on page 7 p.10
- Essential audio loops and demo songs p.10
- Launching pro tools m powered essential p.11
- For more information on creating and saving sessions see the pro tools reference guide p.11
- Additional software on the pro tools installer disc p.11
- Torq le dj software p.11
- Mp3 export option p.11
- Uninstalling pro tools p.12
- For details on administrator privileges in mac os x see your apple os x documenta tion p.12
- Installing pro tools on windows p.13
- Installation overview p.13
- Chapter 3 p.13
- Installing pro tools m powered essential software p.14
- In windows xp a series of software instal lation dialogs about the driver not passing windows logo testing may appear click continue anyway on each one until they go away p.14
- In windows vista a series of windows security dialogs may appear click install on each one until they go away p.14
- In vista if the user account control dialog appears click allow p.14
- For information on connecting your m audio interface see the printed m audio hardware interface guide that came with it p.14
- Launching pro tools m powered essential p.15
- For more information on creating and saving sessions see the pro tools reference guide p.15
- Essential audio loops and demo songs p.15
- Additional software on the pro tools installer disc p.15
- You also have the option of choosing the location where the loops and demo songs are installed p.15
- Torq le dj software p.15
- Mp3 export option p.15
- Uninstalling pro tools p.16
- Starting up or shutting down your system p.17
- Quit mac p.17
- Configuring your system p.17
- Chapter 4 p.17
- Rtas processors p.18
- Pro tools system settings p.18
- In addition to causing slower screen re sponse and monitoring latency higher hardware buffer size settings can increase the latency caused by rtas plug ins and affect the accuracy of plug in automation mute data and midi track timing p.18
- Hardware buffer size p.18
- Configuring pro tools m powered essential software p.18
- System usage window and rtas processing p.19
- Cpu usage limit p.19
- Increasing the cpu usage limit may slow down screen responses on slower computers p.20
- Rtas error suppression options p.20
- Rtas engine rtas error suppression p.20
- Using a larger dae playback buffer size leaves less system memory for other tasks the default setting of 1500 msec level 2 is recommended unless you are encountering 9073 disk too slow or fragmented errors p.21
- Using a larger cache size leaves less system memory for other tasks the default setting of normal is recommended unless you are encountering 9500 cache too small errors p.21
- Dae playback buffer size p.21
- Cache size p.21
- Your digital input device must be connected and turned on if your input device is not turned on leave the sync source set to inter nal p.22
- You can set the sample rate when creating a new pro tools session by selecting a differ ent sample rate in the new session dialog refer to p.22
- Pro tools hardware settings and m audio control panel p.22
- For more information on selecting the sync source for your m audio interface refer to your m audio interface documentation p.22
- Clock source sync source p.22
- You can leave the m audio control panel open while working in pro tools m powered essential p.23
- Pro tools m powered essential bypasses the m audio mixer that is displayed in the m au dio control panel the interface s hardware inputs and outputs show up directly in pro tools i o setup p.23
- M audio mixer direct monitoring p.23
- Configuring i o setup p.23
- Backing up your system configuration p.24
- Turning off software update p.24
- See the p.24
- Optimizing a mac system for pro tools p.24
- For windows system optimization see optimizing a windows system for pro tools on page 22 p.24
- For more information on renaming i o paths p.24
- For details on qualified versions of mac os refer to the latest compatibility information on the digidesign website www digidesign com compatibility p.24
- Do not use the mac os x automatic soft ware update feature as it may upgrade your system to a version of mac os that has not yet been qualified for pro tools p.24
- Turning off energy saver p.25
- Setting processor performance p.25
- Reassign spaces keyboard shortcuts p.25
- Keyboard shortcuts p.25
- Disable or reassign mac keyboard shortcuts used by pro tools p.25
- Enabling journaling for audio drives p.26
- Enabling dma p.26
- Disabling spotlight indexing also disables the find function in mac os x p.26
- Disabling spotlight indexing p.26
- When you are finished changing windows system settings restart your computer p.26
- Required optimizations p.26
- Optimizing a windows system for pro tools p.26
- For mac system optimization see opti mizing a mac system for pro tools on page 20 p.26
- Disabling system standby and power management p.27
- Windows vista only p.28
- Recommended optimizations p.28
- Disabling user account control p.28
- Disabling system startup items p.28
- Supported drive formats and drive types p.29
- Hard drive configuration and maintenance p.29
- Drive formats p.29
- Appendix a p.29
- Firewire hard drives p.30
- Do not choose the case sensitive format option pro tools will not operate properly with case sensitive formatted drives p.30
- Always back up any important data on your drive before formatting it as it will erase all data on the drive p.30
- Ide ata sata hard drives p.30
- Formatting mac audio drives p.30
- Formatting an audio drive p.30
- Windows xp allows drives formatted with the ntfs file system to be seen as whole volumes single pro tools audio files can not exceed 3 gb in size p.31
- Pro tools only supports basic drive types do not convert the drive to a dynamic type p.31
- Partitioning drives p.31
- Mac os allows drives larger than 4096 mb to be seen as whole volumes drives must be initialized with a disk utility that recog nizes the 2 terabyte limit single pro tools audio files cannot exceed 3 gb in size p.31
- Healthy volumes are volumes that have pre viously been partitioned and formatted p.31
- Formatting windows audio drives p.31
- Digidesign recommends using primary par titions instead of extended partitions p.31
- Seek times on partitioned drives p.32
- Optimizing defragmenting drives p.32
- On windows to avoid fragmentation for mat drives with higher cluster sizes such as 32k p.32
- Mac systems p.32
- Backing up data before optimizing p.32
- Avoid distributing audio files within a ses sion over different partitions on the same drive since this will adversely affect drive performance p.32
- Window systems p.32
- The defragment now command defrag ments all your hard drives this can take a lot of time especially on systems with mul tiple drives p.33
- Defragmenting windows audio drives p.33
- Advanced users can use the command line tool defrag exe to defragment individual drives see your windows vista documen tation for more information p.33
- Table 2 lists the required disk space for certain track numbers and track lengths to help you estimate your hard disk usage p.34
- Stereo audio tracks recorded with 16 bit resolution at 44 khz cd quality require approximately 10 mb of hard disk space per minute the same tracks recorded with 24 bit resolution require about 15 mb per minute p.34
- Number of tracks and length 16 bit at 44 khz 16 bit at 48 khz 24 bit at 44 khz 24 bit at 48 khz p.34
- Mono audio tracks recorded with 16 bit resolution at 44 khz cd quality require approximately 5 mb of hard disk space per minute the same tracks recorded with 24 bit resolution require about 7 mb per minute p.34
- Hard disk storage space p.34
- Resources p.35
- Printed guides p.35
- Guides accessible in pro tools p.35
- Appendix b p.35
- About the pro tools guides p.35
- Documentation installed automatically with pro tools p.36
- About www digidesign com p.36
- Usually references to pro tools m powered in the guides are synonymous with pro tools m powered essential p.36
- To view or print pdf guides you can use adobe reader or apple preview mac only p.36
- Helpful online resources p.36
- Hardware buffer siz p.37
- Processor performance mac p.37
- Hard drives p.37
- Pro tools p.37
- Firewire requirement p.37
- Plug ins p.37
- Energy saver mac turning of p.37
- Playback engine p.37
- Drive requirement p.37
- Partitioning hard drive p.37
- Drive maintenanc p.37
- Optimizing hard drive p.37
- Drive formatting p.37
- Minimize additional i o latency optio p.37
- Dma option windows enablin p.37
- Dae playback buffer siz p.37
- M audio control pane p.37
- Cpu usage limi p.37
- Key command p.37
- Clock sourc p.37
- Journaling mac enablin p.37
- Clean uninstall mac p.37
- Installing pro tools p.37
- Cache siz p.37
- Ignore errors during playback record optio p.37
- Ide ata requirement p.37
- I o setu p.37
- Hardware setup dialo p.37
- Removing pro tools p.38
- Websit p.38
- User account control uac p.38
- Uninstalling pro tools p.38
- System settings p.38
- System p.38
- Startup items windows disablin p.38
- Spotlight indexing mac disablin p.38
- Software update mac turning of p.38
- Safe uninstall mac p.38
- Rtas processors settin p.38
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