User`s guide

Chapter 20: Advanced Mixing 277
chapter 20
Advanced Mixing
Hardware I/O Inserts and
Sends
You can connect external devices, such as
reverb or effects processors, to your
Pro Tools system and use them as inserts or
make them the destination for effects sends
and returns.
You can also label the connections so that
the device name appears in the I/O pop-up
menus in Pro Tools.
Connecting External Devices
Pro Tools TDM and Digi 001 systems allow
you to create dedicated connections to ex-
ternal analog or digital devices. The num-
ber and type of connections depends on
what kind of system you have.
You can also use the inputs and outputs of
an Audiomedia III card to connect external
devices. You can send and return an analog
signal using the analog connectors on the
card, and monitor through a DAT machine
connected to the digital output. You can
also send and return a digital signal to an
external device that supports digital I/O
(such as a reverb unit), and monitor with
the analog outputs.
To connect an external device to a Pro Tools
system:
1 Connect an unused output (or pair of
outputs for a stereo device) of your
Pro Tools system to an input of the external
signal processor.
2 Connect the output of the external signal
processor to an unused input (or pair of in-
puts for a stereo device) of your Pro Tools
system.
If you plan to use a device as an Insert, be
sure to connect the device to matching in-
puts and outputs on your system.
☞ For details on connecting external devices,
refer to the
Pro Tools Hardware Installation
Guide that came with your system.