User Manual

Chapter 6: System Setup 69
Optimizing the Plug-In Streaming
Buffer Size
(Structure Plug-In Only)
This option appears in the Playback Engine only
if the Structure plug-in is installed on your sys-
tem. This option is useful when you are playing
samples from the same drive that contains audio
for the current session. When this option is se-
lected, Pro Tools automatically optimizes the
size of the Plug-In Streaming Buffer to facilitate
disk access from both Pro Tools and Structure.
The Plug-In Streaming Buffer Size pop-up menu is
unavailable when this option is selected.
To set Pro Tools to automatically optimize the
Plug-In Streaming Buffer Size:
1 Choose Setup > Playback Engine.
2 Select the Optimize for Streaming Content on
Audio Drives option.
3 Click OK.
Configuring MIDI Setup
If you plan to use any external MIDI devices
with Pro Tools (such as controllers, keyboards,
synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, se-
quencers, or sound modules), you may want to
configure your MIDI setup using Audio MIDI
Setup (Mac) or MIDI Studio Setup (Windows).
Configuring Pro Tools
Hardware Settings
Pro Tools lets you configure the signal routing,
digital I/O format, default sample rate, clock
source, and other hardware-based settings de-
pending on your system configuration. These
system settings are available in the Hardware
Setup (Setup > Hardware).
For information on configuring MIDI, see
Chapter 10, “Configuring MIDI.”
Hardware Setup for HD OMNI, Main page
Hardware Setup for Mbox 2
Hardware Setup for an ASIO device