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I/O Setup Primer6

When to Enable (or Disable) the “Sessions

Overwrite Current I/O Setup When Opened”

Option for Optimal Session Interchange

When exchanging sessions among different sys-

tems running Pro Tools 8.1, it is generally rec-

ommended that the Sessions Overwrite Current

I/O Setup When Opened option be disabled. This

maintains your custom system settings and

Pro Tools automatically remaps session output

busses to the system output paths when open-

ing sessions created (or edited and saved) on

other systems.

When exchanging sessions with systems run-

ning lower versions of Pro Tools, it is generally

recommended that the Sessions Overwrite Cur-

rent I/O Setup When Opened option be enabled.

In this case, any custom settings saved with the

session that do not match your system may need

to be reconfigured in the I/O Setup.

Input and Output Signal Routing

To better understand the routing of audio sig-

nals to and from Pro Tools audio interfaces and

the Pro Tools mixer, consider the following two

examples.

Signal Path Routing for Audio Input

Figure 1 on page 7 shows the signal path from

the physical analog input of an HD OMNI audio

interface, and then through the Pro Tools audio

input path to the Input of an audio track in the

Pro Tools mixer:

1 The physical inputs on your audio interface

that are available to Pro Tools are set on the

Main page of the Hardware Setup (this selector is

mirrored in the Input page of the I/O Setup).

2 Main input paths and sub-paths are routed

(patched) to physical inputs using cross-point

matrix mapping in the I/O Setup. In this exam-

ple, audio input is routed from HD OMNI phys-

ical inputs Analog 1–2 to Pro Tools Input

channels A 1–2.

3 Input paths and sub-paths are routed to track

inputs in the Pro Tools mixer by selecting the

path (or sub-path) from the Track Input selector.

In this example, input sub-path A1 is routed to

the input of audio track “Audio 1.”

Enable the Sessions Overwrite Current I/O

Setup When Opened option for legacy

Pro Tools behavior (versions lower than

8.1). Note that this option is enabled by de-

fault.

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