Other Digidesign PCI Card Options - Pro Tools|HD for Mac OS X

With Pro Tools 6.1 and Pro Tools|HD 1, HD 2, and HD 3 Systems

HD Core & HD Process

Up to 7 HD cards can be used in a single ProTools|HD system

  • 1 HD Core card
  • Plus up to 6 HD Process cards
  • Or any combination of HD Core and HD Process cards up to 7 total
  • Only 4 HD cards are useable when using 176 or 192 kHz sample rates, regardless of whether an expansion chassis is used or not

For more information about expansion chassis setup and card order configurations please download the Expanded Systems Guide PDF in the Technical Document Library of the Support/Tech Support section of the website.

See also Expansion Chassis Requirements - Pro Tools|HD Systems for Mac OS X

Other Digidesign PCI cards are not compatible with Pro Tools|HD Systems

These Digidesign PCI cards are incompatible with the new HD system.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

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