Setup guide

Pro Tools|HD Setup Guide16
If you are connecting both 192 I/O (or
192 Digital I/O) and 96 I/O audio interfaces to
your system, connect the 192 I/O (or
192 Digital I/O) to your HD Core (for PCI) card,
followed by any additional 192 I/O (or
192 Digital I/O) interfaces connected to subse-
quent cards. Then connect 96 I/O interfaces to
subsequent cards, or to other interfaces, then
connect 96i I/O interfaces.
You can also connect a single Pro Tools|HD in-
terface to each Pro Tools|HD card in your system
using the provided DigiLink cables. (However,
there is no advantage to this configuration over
daisy-chaining interfaces.)
Connecting Loop Sync
If you are using two or more Pro Tools|HD audio
interfaces or a SYNC peripheral, Loop Sync must
be connected to maintain proper clock among
the devices.
To make Loop Sync connections:
1 Connect the Loop Sync Out of each interface
to the Loop Sync In of the next interface with
the BNC cables included in your I/O packaging.
2 Connect the Loop Sync Out of the last inter-
face to the Loop Sync In of the primary interface
or SYNC peripheral.
Connecting Legacy I/Os
Each 192 I/O, 192 Digital I/O, and 96 I/O can
support 16 channels of audio to and from
Digidesign Legacy I/Os. (The 96i I/O does not
support Legacy I/O.) Legacy I/Os include the
888|24 I/O™, 882|20 I/O™, 1622 I/O™, and the
24-bit ADAT Bridge I/O™.
To connect Digidesign Legacy I/Os:
1 Connect the “MIX card” end of the peripheral
cable that came with your Legacy I/O (60-pin
side) to the Legacy Port on the primary
Pro Tools|HD audio interface. Connect the
other end to the Computer Port on the Legacy
I/O.
2 Do one of the following:
• Connect any additional Legacy I/Os in the
same manner, to Pro Tools|HD audio inter-
faces connected directly to HD cards.
– or –
• If you are using a Y cable (Legacy 16-chan-
nel peripheral cable adapter), connect this
to the Legacy port first, then connect the
audio interface peripheral cables to Port A
and Port B of the Y cable.
The original 888 I/O and 882 I/O interfaces
are not supported with Pro Tools|HD.
The 96i I/O does not support Legacy I/O.