Specifications

Chapter 6: Sessions 37
Chapter 6: Sessions
This chapter covers the basics of starting a
project in Pro Tools, including how to set up
and save a Pro Tools session.
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:
1 For TDM systems with an expansion chassis,
turn on the chassis.
2 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait ap-
proximately ten seconds for them to spin up to
speed.
3 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or
synchronization peripherals.
4 Lower the volume of all output devices in
your system.
5 For TDM systems, turn on your Pro Tools au-
dio interfaces. Wait at least fifteen seconds for
your system hardware to initialize.
6 Turn on your computer.
7 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 de-
vices in your system.
3 Turn off your computer.
4 For TDM systems, turn off audio interfaces.
5 For TDM systems with an expansion chassis,
turn off the chassis.
6 Turn off any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or
synchronization peripherals.
7 Turn off any external hard drives.
Configuring Pro Tools System
Settings (in the Playback
System Engine)
Pro Tools allows you to adjust the performance
of your system by changing system settings that
affect its capacity for processing, playback, and
recording.
These system settings are changed in the Play-
back Engine Dialog (Setups > Playback Engine).
In most cases, the default settings for your sys-
tem provide optimum performance, but you
may want to adjust them to accommodate large
or processing-intensive Pro Tools sessions.