• Registered: 2008-07-12
  • Posts: 13

Topic: PT 9, I/O Pathways

Hi

Been playing around with PT 9 now for a few weeks. I'm not sure if I have my I/O paths correct, given FF800 start their Preamps at 7 through to 10

Can anyone post a screenshot somewhere how Digi's I/O should look from the Setup tab?

I'm running my FF800 through a 2007 Rosetta MBP 2.2Ghz and despite very little cpu usage, sometimes 5% the machine is choking and asking me to increase hardware buffer or reduce plugins.

This is on Session with one track and a single band eq and digi's compressor.

This occours even when the session is on my single external 300Gb 7200 rpm HD or my Firmtek Dual 2TB RAID.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

O

MBP 2.2Ghz
Ram 2 GB
OSX.6.6

  • Registered: 2010-02-22
  • Posts: 29

Re: PT 9, I/O Pathways

Hi,

If you want to get your RME i/o right in PT9, just opens i/o setup inside PT9, delete all paths and then press default button, so PT9 can get the right ones from your RME(do this for all i/o setup panes: ins, outs, busses and inserts).

About performance, your hardware seems to be up to the task, althought 2GB RAM is not much for today standards. Also, PT have a hard time working with external USB drives. Don't know if that's the case, but you should check it out.

Hope this help

see ya

  • Registered: 2008-07-29
  • Posts: 6

Re: PT 9, I/O Pathways

How do I route i/o pathway for ff400 in pro tools 9.  I followed the instructions and signal is coming in and out of total mix but nothing is appearing in pro tools?

  • Registered: 2010-02-22
  • Posts: 29

Re: PT 9, I/O Pathways

Hi ajstell,

1) Make sure to select your RME hardware driver as primary interface inside PT9 setup.

2) Follow the procedure suggested at #3 above to create new correct i/o paths.

3) Create a audio track, then select the input in which you have your sound source connected to and press the record button to see if there's signal coming in.

4) in the track's output, select your main output(the one that your monitors are connected to) to see if a signal is present.

5) If something goes wrong, check your signal path and TotalMix configuration to see if it's properly configured(consult RME manual).

important: If you create new paths(step 2) and do not select your track's in/outs to use the new paths created(steps 3 and 4) you will not see/hear any signal, since PT9 will not change them automatically and would be still using your old deleted paths, therefore no in/out signal. This holds true to every session that you have created with old deleted paths.

hope this help

see ya

  • Registered: 2008-07-29
  • Posts: 6

Re: PT 9, I/O Pathways

How do I create a Hardware Insert in Pro Tools 9/10 with my FF400?  I need some step by step instructions.  Audio gets to the external compressor but I can't get it back in to Pro Tools.

  • Registered: 2008-07-29
  • Posts: 6

Re: PT 9, I/O Pathways

Pro tools wants to see the same output and input for a hardware insert.  How can I do this in Totalmix? Is there an issue with latency?