In this movie, we will install Pro Tools LE on my Macintosh. I have already connected my Digidesign hardware. So now I will install Pro Tools LE. From the CD I double click the install Pro Tools LE application. Installing software of course requires authentication. We get our splash screen, a license agreement and now we can decide which components we want to install. If we open up the disclosure triangle for the Pro Tools LE partition of this, you can see we have application files, the DigiRack plug-ins that are very useful, Pro Tools utilities and plug-in updates. I suggest you leave all of these checked. Also leave Digidesign core audio checked if you want to use your Digidesign hardware with other applications besides Pro Tools. There are other pieces of software available here as well. But for now, we are just going to stick with the defaults and click install. And since Pro Tools does some low level patching of the operating system, we have to quit other applications. And now I restart my Mac. I am back to my Pro Tools LE installer disc. From here I can install the demo session which we are not going to do in this tutorial. It's kind of a Digidesign thing. Instead I am going to go into this plug-in installers and I open it up. There are some other interesting things you can navigate to and explore here. The one that interests me the most is this Digidesign folder and I am going to install D-Fi and Maxim on my system because along with my Pro Tools LE came a promotion that includes serial numbers for these two plug-ins. So I will install Maxim first, yes accept, install. Couldn't be simpler. I will also install the Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction plug-in so that you can see what it looks like to run a plug-in when you don't have a serial number. Feel free to install this plug-in or the SoundReplacer or SurroundScope plug-ins or any of the third party plug-in demos that you can download from the web. They will typically give you between two weeks and one month of unlimited use so you can do a test drive before you buy. We will get to the free bomb factory plug-ins when we install my factory bundle next. From time to time, Digidesign will try to promote Pro Tools LE by bundling it with certain plug-ins. When I purchased my Digi 002 Rack, I got it with something called the factory bundle which is a suite of plug-ins that are designed to accurately model analogue signal processing devices like compressors, limiters and so forth. If I had the Mbox with this factory bundle, I would double click this application right here to install the factory bundle for the Mbox. Since I have a 002, I will double click this one over here. Again I will authenticate, we now reach the splash screen, accept the license agreement and do my installation. And now I will install my free bomb factory plug-ins. These are a set of plug-ins that Digidesign is just giving away to everybody. If it's not on your Pro Tools LE or bundle discs, you can go to Digidesign's website and download this and install on your machine. I highly recommend you do this. There are some extremely valuable plug-ins here and they are absolutely free. So I am going to go and install these. And yes we want these, accept the license agreement and install. The meter bridge is awesome, the tuner is very good and the BF76 is to die for. Well worth the free price. And now barring any third party plug-ins that we have to install, our installation process is complete. I should now be able to go to my doc, choose Pro Tools and have it launched. We get an interesting dialogue box here which says I have to authorize something. This is one of those plug-ins that I installed earlier, this Digidesign Intelligent Noise Reduction. Well I don't have a serial number for this so I can't really authorize it. Instead, I am just going to click the try button here. It's going to allow me to use this for 30 days. Of course, every time I run Pro Tools, it's going to say this. So I say try and now I get D-Fi. Now I do have a serial number for this and it comes on this little yellow card that came with Pro Tools. So I click authorize and I am first asked if I want to use my iLok Smart Key for this authorization. This is what an iLok Smart Key looks like. It's a USB dongle device that actually plugs in to a USB port on my computer. Well I have one of these that came with my factory bundle but it's not for my D-Fi plug-in. Instead I am going to use a serial number that came on this card. So I am going to turn this off for this plug-in and click next and since I have a serial number printed on that yellow card, I am going to click manual activation and next and then type in my serial number and click next. Apparently it likes it so I will click finish. And now I get to do the same thing with Maxim. Again, I am not using the iLok for my Maxim plug-in so I will turn off the `use my iLok Smart Key' check box. I have it on a card so I will physically type in the serial number, manual activation and it liked that as well and now Pro Tools LE needs its own authorization code in order to run. You should be able to find this authorization code within the first few pages of the installation guide that came with your hardware, mine was right on the back of the title page. It begins with DIGI and the version number of the software that you purchased, in this case 6.4. After that comes the serial number proper. Installing an audio program like Pro Tools with its multiple layers of authentications both for the application and all the plug-ins can be quite a challenge. Hopefully this movie has helped you out a bit.
Course: | Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 |
Author: | Nathan Dickson |
SKU: | 33599 |
ISBN: | 1-932808-46-9 |
Release Date: | 2005-02-25 |
Duration: | 9 hrs / 101 lessons |
Work Files: |
Yes |
Captions: | No |
Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |