Chapter 5. System Setup; Starting Up Or Shutting Down Your System - DigiDesign Pro Tools 8.0 Reference Manual

Chapter 5: System Setup
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 particu-
lar order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
Make sure all your equipment (including your
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computer) is off.
Lower the volume of all output devices in your
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system.
For Pro Tools|HD systems with an expansion
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chassis, turn on the chassis.
Turn on any external hard drives. Wait ap-
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proximately ten seconds for them to spin up to
speed.
Turn on any worksurfaces (such as
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D-Command) or control surfaces (such as
Command|8).
Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or
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synchronization peripherals.
Do one of the following, depending on your
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Pro Tools system:
• For Pro Tools|HD systems, with the volume
of all output devices lowered, turn on your
Pro Tools Legacy I/O (such as an 888|24 I/O
or 882|20 I/O) first, then your Pro Tools|HD
audio interfaces (such as 96 I/O). Wait at
least fifteen seconds for your system hard-
ware to initialize.
– or –
• For Pro Tools LE and M-Powered systems
that use hardware requiring external power
(such as 003), turn on the hardware.
Turn on your computer.
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Launch Pro Tools or any third-party audio or
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MIDI applications.
Shut down your Pro Tools system in this order:
Quit Pro Tools and any other running applica-
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tions.
To quit Pro Tools, choose File > Exit (Win-
dows) or Pro Tools > Quit (Mac).
Turn off or lower the volume of all output de-
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vices in your system.
Turn off your computer.
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