Pro Tools Rules of Thumb June 8, 2009
Posted by ConnorSmith in : Digidesign, Pro Tools, Troubleshooting , trackbackI thought I’d post some of the general Pro Tools rules of thumb (both for functionality and troubleshooting). A lot of the emails and comments questions we get on The Studio Files are concerning some of these Pro Tools FAQs. Here goes – I’ll just bullet point them in no particular order.
- Pro Tools LE and M-Powered only work with Digidesign LE or approved M-Audio interfaces (respectively). Additionally, both LE and M-Powered can only communicate with one interface (so, for example, you cannot chain two 003R’s together). You cannot use one interface as a dongle and utilize another interface for I/O, whether it is a Digidesign interface or not.
- If Pro Tools was working on your machine, and suddenly is now giving you grief – start by trashing your preferences and databases on all drives. Also, did you recently install any new plug-ins? Make upgrades/changes to your operating system? Install new hard drives?
- If you are upgrading (especially from a previous version of Pro Tools to Pro Tools 8), do a clean install. This means you need to uninstall the previous version of Pro Tools (and I would also trash any PT-related files such as prefs and databases). Once your computer is clean of the old version, then install the new version. I would also recommend that when installing extra plug-ins or virtual instruments, you do them one at a time and check to see that they both work with Pro Tools and are properly authorized.
- There is no way to not bounce (or record to disk) in real time in Pro Tools. The program works on RTAS (real-time audio suite), so there is no offline bounce. You should be listening through while bouncing anyway!
- If you do have a problem and would like to get some help from us, PLEASE read this post and provide this information. http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=848
- If you get your setup working well on a particular version of Pro Tools/your OS, leave it! Don’t upgrade either until you have to (or a big new release comes with lots of desirable features). Personally, I am still running PT LE 8.0 on Mac OSX 10.5.5. Once I got everything installed, it worked really well. I want it to remain working well, so until something big comes out, I am staying put.
I’ll probably update and bump this post as I think of some more common problems/directions (or if you have questions or suggestions, post them in the comments here)
C
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I’m running a digi 003 rack unit. I have the 8 analog channels from teh digi set up on channels 1-8 and I have a behringer ada8000 digital preamp linked via optical adat set up on channels 9-16. I’m getting signal on all 16 channels (set the I/O to mono on all 16), but when I arm one of the digital channels for recording a hum comes into the picture. The more channels I arm, the louder the hum. There is still signal coming into the channels, but the hum is being recorded. What gives?
Also, I can’t get my computer (Dell XPS, Pentium 4 with 4 gig memory), to recognize the Glyph external drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to install pro tools le8 onto my computer. When I insert the install disk the window that opens up is gray. I have been waiting for somthing to happen for a few hours now and nothing has happened. What do I do?
@JpMg2010
Check out this page:
http://thestudiofiles.com/?p=848
I am going to need more specifics in order to help shed some light on the situation.
EDIT – duplicate question
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Edit – duplicate question
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