Pro Tools External Hardware

In this article we are going to look at which video peripherals are currently supported and compatible with pro tools from avid and both of their video peripheral partners aja and blackmagic design as well as the products that are no longer supported for use with pro tools.

Pro tools external hardware. Controlling external hardware with avid pro tools uploaded by dezz asante on april 22 2019 at 7 09 am greg stryke chin from avid dropped by to teach us some tips and tricks for controlling external hardware using pro tools. For this reason if you re using level automation or moving the faders during mixes you re better off putting compression into the inserts. If you are a macintosh owner using core audio you may have noticed an option within your hardware peripheral list labelled pro tools aggregate i o this was a new feature introduced in version 9 of pro tools which will allow you to make use of the built in inputs and outputs of your mac computer so for those who don t need the large amount of inputs and outputs that external hardware can offer you can still make your recordings without spending the extra money. This means that you can effectively incorporate your external equipment into your mix in a similar way to how you might use plug ins.

In the default apollo i o setup the first two input channels are mic line hi z 1 mic line hi z 2 however the first two output channels are monitor l and monitor r. How to use external hardware effects in pro tools following a request from the community russ does a full video tutorial on how to connect hardware in and out of pro tools. Setting up outside of pro tools in order for pro tools to see your device it is compulsory to make all the connections that will send receive midi and to turn on the device prior. In this video paul maunder looks at how to use outboard hardware in pro tools.

I m sure i have the compressor connected properly into the mbox as somebody showed me the right way to connect it but i can t remember how to change the i o settings in pro tools so that the hardware. He looks at both the software set up in pro tools and the hardware set up. The avid nitris dx avc intra external hardware accelerator. This video tutorial also shows you how to account for any round trip latency that may be.

Boost your pro tools power with high performance hardware systems that offer dedicated dsp premium audio i o and infinite routing flexibility. In this tutorial i will show you how to connect an external sound modules to pro tools so that you can send and receive midi and audio to and from the sound module. Channel strip hardware inserts in pro tools are placed before the channel s fader in the signal path.