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The I/O is automatically selected in the Periph-
erals list, and is labelled HD Core #1, Port A.
Configure the peripheral's options as available
in Hardware Setup, then close the Hardware
Setup dialog.
Configuring I/O Setup
I/O Setup provides tools to label and map
Pro Tools input, output, insert, and bus signal
paths.
In addition, the I/O Setup dialog, like the Main
tab of Hardware Setup, provides controls for
routing the physical ports on your I/O periph-
eral to Pro Tools input and output channels.
Refer to the Pro Tools Reference Guide for
more information on setting up I/O paths.
Multiple Outputs
Multiple outputs from your 96 I/O can be as-
signed from a single Pro Tools mixer output.
This type of mirroring is useful when laying
back material in multiple formats.
For example, if you look at the default settings
for the Hardware Setup dialog, you will see on
the Main tab that there is a "+" sign in front of
the Output assignment for channels 1 and 2.
Click the Default button on the lower edge of
the Hardware Setup dialog if you want to reset
your assignments to the factory defaults.
This basic configuration routes Pro Tools chan-
nels 1 and 2 to Analog Outputs 1 and 2, and the
"+" symbol means that there are multiple out-
puts for channels 1 and 2.
Select the pop-up menu for channels 1 and 2 in
the Output column of the Main tab, you will see
that the Digital (AES/EBU, S/PDIF) outputs are
also checked, which means that those ports are
outputting Pro Tools channels 1 and 2 as well.
In fact, the Digital (AES/EBU, S/PDIF) outputs al-
ways mirror each other.
This allows you, for example, to quickly make a
single output assignment in an Pro Tools ses-
sion (such as A 1-2), which is then mirrored to
the analog outputs for your monitor system,
DAT Deck, and/or a S/PDIF device, with no extra
load on your Pro Tools system.
You can multi-assign any available 96 I/O out-
puts in the Hardware Setup dialog.
To route Pro Tools channels to multiple 96 I/O
outputs:
In the Hardware Setup dialog, click the pop-up
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for the Pro Tools output pair you wish to multi-
assign (for example, 1–2, 3–4, 15–16). By de-
fault, all pairs are assigned to a 96 I/O output
pair, except for Analog Outputs 1–2 which are
by default mirrored to the two-channel Digital
pairs.
Select one of the outputs to which you want
2
to route the output from Pro Tools.
While pressing Ctrl, select each additional
3
output destination.
Selecting multiple output formats does not af-
fect time slot count. The multiplexing of audio
is done in the peripheral rather than in software
or the computer.
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