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Pro Tools M-Powered Essential User Guide26
FireWire Hard Drives
Digidesign recommends qualified FireWire
drives and (on Windows systems) a qualified
FireWire host adapter.
For complete information on track count and
the supported number and configuration of
FireWire drives, visit the Digidesign website at:
www.digidesign.com/compatibility
IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives
A qualified internal IDE/ATA/SATA drive may be
used as a dedicated audio drive.
For complete information on track count with
internal drives, visit the Digidesign website at:
www.digidesign.com/compatibility
Formatting an Audio Drive
Formatting Mac Audio Drives
For optimum performance, audio drives should
be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
To format an audio drive:
1 Launch the Disk Utility application, located in
Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities.
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.
5 Type a name for the new volume.
6 If you plan to connect the drive to a Mac OS 9
computer, select Install Mac OS 9 Drivers.
7 Click Erase.
The drive appears on the Desktop with the new
volume name.
Always back up any important data on your
drive before formatting it, as it will erase all
data on the drive.
Disk Utility (Mac OS X)
Do not choose the “Case-Sensitive” format
option. Pro Tools will not operate properly
with case-sensitive formatted drives.
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- User guide p.1
- Legal notices p.2
- Documentation feedback p.2
- Chapter 1 welcome to pro tools m powered essentia p.3
- 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
- Appendix b resource p.4
- Appendix a hard drive configuration and maintenanc p.4
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What menus with icons mean p.6
- System requirements and compatibility p.6
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Installing pro tools on mac p.9
- Installing pro tools m powered essential software 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
- Torq le dj software p.11
- Mp3 export option p.11
- 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
- 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
- For information on connecting your m audio interface see the printed m audio hardware interface guide that came with it p.14
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rtas error suppression options p.20
- Rtas engine rtas error suppression p.20
- Increasing the cpu usage limit may slow down screen responses on slower computers 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Backing up your system configuration p.24
- Disable or reassign mac keyboard shortcuts used by pro tools p.25
- Turning off energy saver p.25
- Setting processor performance p.25
- Reassign spaces keyboard shortcuts p.25
- Keyboard shortcuts p.25
- 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
- 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
- Disabling system standby and power management p.27
- Recommended optimizations p.28
- Disabling user account control p.28
- Disabling system startup items p.28
- Windows vista only 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
- Ide ata sata hard drives p.30
- Formatting mac audio drives p.30
- Formatting an audio drive p.30
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Window systems p.32
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Table 2 lists the required disk space for certain track numbers and track lengths to help you estimate your hard disk usage 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
- 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
- Documentation installed automatically with pro tools p.36
- About www digidesign com p.36
- 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
- Installing pro tools p.37
- Clean uninstall mac p.37
- Ignore errors during playback record optio p.37
- Cache siz p.37
- Ide ata requirement p.37
- I o setu p.37
- Hardware setup dialo p.37
- 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
- Drive maintenanc p.37
- Partitioning hard drive p.37
- Drive formatting p.37
- Optimizing hard drive p.37
- Dma option windows enablin p.37
- Minimize additional i o latency optio p.37
- 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
- Removing pro tools p.38
- Websit p.38
- User account control uac p.38
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