Installation guide

Chapter 1: Pro Tools TDM System Requirements 3
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A 17-inch or larger color monitor; black and
white monitors are not supported
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A Digidesign-qualified floppy drive, along
with the appropriate driver software (included
on the Pro Tools Installer CD-ROM); required to
authorize most plug-ins
Hard Drive Requirements
For audio recording and storage, all Pro Tools
TDM systems require one or more Digidesign-
qualified drives.
To provide full 64-track, 24-bit, 48 kHz perfor-
mance, a TDM system must include at least two
Digidesign-qualified SCSI hard drives attached
to a qualified SCSI HBA (host bus adapter) card.
For 64-track sessions that have substantial edit
densities (such as one edit every third of a sec-
ond across 64 voices) or large amounts of cross-
fades, up to four SCSI drives may be required, al-
located with 16 tracks per drive and two drives
per SCSI channel.
Dedicated internal IDE/ATA drives can provide
32-track performance to all TDM systems.
Refer to the Digidesign Web site for compatible
hard drives and SCSI HBA cards:
www.digidesign.com/compato/
Older Power Macintosh Computers
Power Macintosh 9500 and 9600 computers
have two SCSI busses: an internal fast SCSI bus
and an external narrow SCSI bus. On these ma-
chines, sessions with higher track counts and
high edit density require a SCSI HBA card. For
optimum performance without a SCSI HBA
card, use the internal fast SCSI bus.
MIDI Requirements
Both USB and serial MIDI interfaces work effec-
tively with Pro Tools. Serial MIDI interfaces of-
fer the tightest possible MIDI timing.
Serial MIDI interfaces require either a Mac serial
port or a qualified modem-to-serial port adapter
(thereby not using a PCI slot). Refer to the
Digidesign compatibility page for supported
adapters:
www.digidesign.com/compato/
Digidesign Registration
Make sure to complete and return the registra-
tion card included with Pro Tools TDM system.
Registered users are entitled to one year of free
technical support, and will receive periodic soft-
ware updates and upgrade notices.
For higher track counts on Power Macin-
tosh 9500, 9600, and Beige G3 comput-
ers, avoid using the external narrow SCSI
drive.
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