Specifications

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Creating and Editing Paths
The I/O Setup dialog lets you create and custom-
ize signal path definitions.
Paths can be:
• Renamed, for easier identification after
changing or renaming audio interfaces
• Remapped, to or from different sources or des-
tinations
•Deactivated (or reactivated) to manage un-
available or unnecessary I/O resources
• Deleted
In addition, you can import and export your
I/O Setup configurations as I/O Settings files, as
well as set default path parameters.
The following table lists the available path at-
tributes for each path type.
Creating a Default Main or Sub-Path
You can set an I/O Setup path type to its default
path configuration at any time.
To restore default paths and pathnames:
1 Choose Setups > I/O Setup.
2 Click the Input, Output, Insert, or Bus tab to
display the corresponding path type.
3 Click Default.
Pro Tools creates all possible stereo main paths.
Mono sub-paths are also auto-created for every
stereo main path. These default path names ap-
pear in a session’s track Input and Output Selec-
tors.
Creating New Paths
You can create new main path and sub-paths
with custom names, format, and mapping. Cus-
tom path names appear in a session’s track In-
put, Output, Insert, and Bus Selectors.
To create a new path:
1 Choose Setups > I/O Setup.
2 Click the Input, Output, Insert, or Bus tab to
display the corresponding path type.
3 Click New Path, or press Control+N (Win-
dows) or Command+N (Macintosh).
– or –
Select a main path and click New Sub-Path.
Path Options by Type
Path Type Path Options (Attributes)
Input Names, formats, and source
channel (analog or digital audio
interface, or CPU input)
Output Names, formats, and destination
(audio interface output channel or
internal send bus)
Insert Names, formats and destination
(audio interface channels)
Bus Names and formats
Default stereo output paths
To optimize Pro Tools DSP resources, it is
best to create mono sub-paths for Outputs
and Busses, rather than mono main paths.