Specifications

Chapter 6: System Setup 63
Chapter 6: System Setup
You can review and update the setup of your sys-
tem to ensure it is configured for your needs.
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 particular order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Make sure all your equipment (including your
computer) is off.
2 Lower the volume of all output devices in your
system.
3 For systems with an expansion chassis, turn on
the chassis.
4 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait approxi-
mately ten seconds for them to spin up to speed.
5 Turn on any worksurfaces (such as
D-Command) or control surfaces (such as
Command|8).
6 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or
synchronization peripherals.
7 Do one of the following, depending on your
Pro Tools system:
• For Avid HDX, Pro Tools|HD, and HD Native
systems, with the volume of all output devices
lowered, turn on your audio interfaces (such as
HD OMNI or 192 I/O). Wait at least fifteen sec-
onds for your system hardware to initialize.
• For Pro Tools systems that use hardware requir-
ing external power (such as 003), with the vol-
ume of all output devices lowered, turn on the
hardware.
8 Turn on your computer.
9 Launch Pro Tools or any third-party audio or
MIDI applications.
Shut down your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Quit Pro Tools and any other running applica-
tions.
2 Turn off or lower the volume of all output
devices in your system.
3 Turn off your computer.
To quit Pro Tools, choose File > Exit (Win-
dows) or Pro Tools > Quit (Mac).