Other Digidesign PCI & PCIe Card Options - Pro Tools|HD and HD Accel Systems for Mac OS X
HD Core, HD Accel, HD Process PCI Cards
Up to 7 HD PCI cards can be used in a single ProTools|HD system
- 1 HD Core card, any combination of HD Accel and/or HD Process cards
- For proper operation, card order MUST be: HD Core card, all HD Accel cards, then remaining HD Process cards
- DigiTest will NOT reflect the actual card order. System Usage window in Pro Tools will reflect the proper card order.
- Although 7 cards may be installed, only 4 HD cards are addressable when using 176 or 192 kHz sample rates, regardless of whether an expansion chassis is used or not
Expansion Chassis Requirements
Expanded Systems Guide
For more information about expansion chassis setup and requirements, please see the Expanded Systems Guide.pdf installed on your hard drive during Pro Tools installation. Also available in the Technical Document Library of the Support/Tech Support section of the website.
- Expanded Systems Guide (571 k, v7.1 for HD Systems)
HD Accel Core PCIe & HD Accel PCIe Cards
Up to 3 HD PCIe cards can be used in a single ProTools|HD system
- 1 HD Accel Core PCIe card
- Up to 2 HD Accel PCIe cards
- PCIe cards cannot be used in an expansion chassis
- Power Mac G5 PCI Express model required. (currently not compatible with Windows systems)
Known Incompatibilities & Issues
AVoption|XL
AVoption|XL is not compatible with Pro Tools 6.4 and higher. Do not install Pro Tools 6.4 or higher on an AVoption|XL system.
- AVoption|XL users on Mac OS X 10.3 must use Pro Tools 6.2.3
Other Digidesign PCI cards are not compatible with Pro Tools|HD Systems
These Digidesign PCI cards are incompatible with Pro Tools|HD systems.You cannot combine Pro Tools|HD and these PCI cards, either in the CPU or an expansion chassis. Doing so will cause crashes, or the CPU will simply fail to boot. The following Digidesign cards are not compatible with HD systems:
- MIX Core card
- MIX Farm card
- MIX I/O card
- d24 card (Pro Tools|24 core card)
- DSP Farm card (Pro Tools III/Pro Tools|24)
- Digi 001
- Audiomedia III
- Pro Tools III Disk I/O
- Pro Tools Project card
- Project II card
- SampleCell II card
- SampleCell IIplus card