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Chapter 5: Configuring Your Pro Tools System
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chapter 5
Configuring Your Pro Tools System
After you have connected your system and installed
Pro Tools software, you are ready to start up and config-
ure your Pro Tools system.
Starting Up or Shutting Down Your
System
To ensure that the components of your Pro Tools system
communicate properly with each other, you need to
start them in a particular order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Lower the volume of all output devices in your sys-
tem.
2 Turn on any external hard drives. Wait approximately
ten seconds for them to spin up to speed.
3 Turn on any control surfaces (such as Command|8).
4 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or syn-
chronization peripherals.
5 Turn on your computer.
6 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 applications.
2 Turn off or lower the volume of all output devices in
your system.
3 Turn off your computer.
4 Turn off any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or syn-
chronization peripherals.
5 Turn off any control surfaces.
6 Turn off any external hard drives.
To quit Pro Tools, choose File > Exit (Windows)
or Pro Tools > Quit (Mac).