Specifications

MachineControl Guide8
Starting Up Your System
To ensure that the components of your
Pro Tools system communicate properly with
each other and your external machines, start
them in a particular order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 For systems with an expansion chassis, turn
on the chassis.
2 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait ap-
proximately ten seconds for them to come up to
speed.
3 Turn on any external machines (VTR, ATR,
synchronizer, and monitors).
4 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices
and synchronization peripherals.
5 Lower the volume of all output devices in
your system.
6 Turn on Pro Tools audio interfaces. Wait at
least fifteen seconds for your system hardware to
initialize.
7 Turn on your computer.
8 Launch Pro Tools.
Machine Local and Remote Modes
Be sure to set your machine-controllable device
to “remote” or “ext” mode to receive the 9-pin
or V-LAN information (not “local” or front-
panel mode). With some supported machines, if
all other communication is established and the
machine is not in remote mode, Pro Tools will
indicate machine “local” mode.
Authorizing MachineControl
The MachineControl option is authorized using
the iLok USB Smart Key from PACE Anti-Piracy.
The iLok is similar to a dongle, but unlike a don-
gle, it is designed to securely authorize multiple
software applications from a variety of software
developers.
One iLok USB Smart Key is included with
Pro Tools|HD Core systems. This key can hold
over 100 authorizations for all of your iLok-en-
abled software. Once a software authorization is
added to an iLok USB Smart Key, you can use the
iLok to authorize that software on any com-
puter.
Authorizations are added to an iLok using Li-
cense Cards that have a small punch-out GSM
plastic chip. A License Card is included with Ma-
chineControl software.
If you do not have an iLok USB Smart key,
you can purchase one from the Digidesign
online store at
www.digidesign.com.