Installation and Setup
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Starting Up and Shutting Down Your System
Day-to-Day Power Up and Down
To ensure that the components of your Pro Tools system communicate properly with each other, it is advised that you power them on
in the following order.
Start up your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Make sure all your equipment (including your computer) is off.
2 Mute your MBOX Studio monitor speakers and lower the volume of all output devices in your system.
3 Turn on any external hard drives.
4 Turn on any control surfaces (such as Avid S1).
5 Turn on any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or synchronization peripherals.
6 Power on MBOX Studio. Wait at least fifteen seconds for it to initialize.
7 Turn on your computer.
8 Launch Pro Tools or any third-party audio or MIDI applications.
9 Unmute your MBOX Studio monitor speakers.
Shut down your Pro Tools system in this order:
1 Mute your MBOX Studio monitor speakers and turn off or lower the volume of all output
devices in your system.
2 Quit Pro Tools and any other running applications. To quit Pro Tools, choose
Pro Tools > Quit (Mac) or File > Exit (Windows).
3 Shut down your computer.
4 Turn off MBOX Studio (press and hold the power button for 2 seconds).
5 Turn off any MIDI interfaces, MIDI devices, or synchronization peripherals.
6 Turn off any control surfaces (such as Avid S1).
7 Turn off any external hard drives.
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