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Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pro Tools System 43
chapter 6
Configuring Your Pro Tools System
Starting Up or Shutting Down
Your System
Whenever you start your system, turn on all of
your system components in a specific order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Make sure all your equipment (including your
computer) is off.
2 Lower the volume of all output devices in your
system.
3 For Pro Tools|HD systems with an expansion
chassis, turn on the expansion chassis.
4 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait ap-
proximately ten seconds for them to spin up to
speed.
5 Turn on any control surfaces.
6 Turn on any MIDI interfaces and devices, or
synchronization peripherals.
7 With the volume of all output devices low-
ered, turn on any Pro Tools|24 MIX audio inter-
faces (such as an 888|24 I/O or 882|20 I/O). Wait
at least fifteen seconds for the audio interface to
initialize and the status LEDs to stop flashing.
8 With the volume of all output devices low-
ered, turn on your Pro Tools|HD audio inter-
faces. Wait at least fifteen seconds for the audio
interface to initialize and the status LEDs to stop
flashing.
9 Turn on your computer.
10 Launch Pro Tools or any third-party audio or
MIDI applications.
Shut down your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Quit Pro Tools and any other running applica-
tions.
2 Turn off or lower the volume of all output de-
vices in your system.
3 Turn off your computer.
4 Turn off your Pro Tools audio interfaces.
5 For Pro Tools|HD systems with an expansion
chassis, turn off the chassis.
6 Turn off any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or
synchronization peripherals.
7 Turn off any control surfaces or worksurfaces.
8 Turn off any external hard drives.
To quit Pro Tools, choose Pro Tools > Quit
(Mac) or File > Exit (Windows).