Specifications

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Creating New Paths
The I/O Setup lets you create new paths with cus-
tom names, formats, and assignments to physical
I/O. Custom path names appear in a session’s track
Input, Output, Insert, and Bus selectors.
To create a new path:
1 Choose Setup > I/O.
2 Click the Input, Output, Insert, or Bus tab to dis-
play the corresponding path type.
3 Click New Path.
4 In the New Path dialog, specify the number of
new paths you want to create, the channel width
for each path, and the path name.
5 Do one of the following:
• To add more paths, click the Add Row
button.
• To remove a path, click the Remove Row
button.
6 Enable (or disable) the New Paths options Add
the Default Channel Assignments
and Auto-
Create Sub-paths
.
7 Click Create.
8 Assign the path to a specific audio interface (In-
put, Output, and Insert pages only) in the Grid
column. See “Assigning Paths to Hardware
I/O” on page 113.
9 Repeat the previous steps to configure all path
types (Input, Output, Insert, or Bus).
10 Click OK to save changes and close the I/O
Setup. If there are any identically named paths,
you will be instructed to correct them before the
I/O Setup will close. For more information, see
“Valid Paths and Requirements” on page 114.
For Pro Tools systems such as the Mbox Pro
and the 003, physical outputs are fixed. For
third-party and built-in hardware, click the
Launch Setup App button in the Hardware
Setup for available configuration options.
New Paths dialog
Add a new path by pressing Command+N
(Mac) or Control+N (Windows), or by press-
ing Command+Plus (+) (Mac) or
Control+Plus (+) (Windows) on the numeric
keypad.
To remove the last path from the New Path
dialog Command+Minus (–) (Mac) or
Control+Minus (–) (Windows).
When you create a new Output path, an out-
put bus is automatically created on the Bus
page of the IO Setup, and is automatically
mapped to the output path you created. See
“Output Busses” on page 115.
Multichannel paths and mixing are
explained in Chapter 46, “Pro Tools Setup
for Surround.”