Let\'s talk about the I/O window, shall we?

I just had to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get the I/O set-up of each and every song of a ten song record, to remap to my system set-up. Call me stupid, but it just doesn't work for me. Can someone please enlighten me, please, please, and let me know how I can effectively remap I/O? Let me be clear: The stuff comes in with 64 tracks of music assigned all over the place to 'Joe's insane I/O set-up' There are busses and outputs and stems and yada, yada, yada. Now, I'd like to take the output 3/4 from 'Joe's Insane I/O Set-up' and tell Protools to remap it to output 3/4 on 'My extremly well designed I/O set-up', so I don't have to look at name's like 'Joe's 1622 output 15' when all I want is to route my track to 'My bottom HD out number 7' Can I do that without turning off Joe's outputs and then turning mine on, and then having to hunt all over the session to find outputs that have been made inactive? It surely must be me. Please make me eat my words, cover me in shame, but show me where the button I'm missing is. I'd be grateful. Ciao, Fab

Setups > I/O Setups: "Import Settings" You do have a custom saved I/O Setup created, right?

I don't think importing settings will solve his problem. This is what I do in a situation like this: I have session templates that have I/O setups with all the auxes and outputs that I like in my setup. I have a number of different sessions that I use for various tasks. When a session comes in from from "crazy joe", i simply make a new session from my template, then import the tracks from crazy joe's session, then literally drag the audio from the track it came in on to the tracks that make sense to me. Of course, you will have to carefully duplicate all plugs, but that is not so hard with the ability to option-drag them from track to track. All the automation stays and life is good. You just have to be careful to have all tracks in "Waveform view" so all the embedded parameters go with the audio when you drag it. Hope this is useful to you. It works for me.

the biggest pain in the ***** is not being able to resize the window .

I agree to, so many times a composer has turned up with 60 cues to record for the next few days at 8 in the evening needing them all done for the following day with a 9am start..... there must be away of sorting this.... and whilst on the subject when I import tracks I, personally, don't want to import i/o settings from the session those tracks came from can't this be an option and when I fill in the name of a stereo track I don't neccesarily want the mono sub paths of the afore mentioned stereo track to be automatically renamed for me, and if I do change things on inputs and I want the outputs, and/or inserts to be the same, can't there be something that does this for me rather than the process taking 3 times as long. I can't make a standard i/o setup as my setup changes often on a weekly basis, other than that I think the window is great..... I just wish they would write it properly rant: over

Yes, I do have, many, custom I/O set-ups created. The problem is what happens after you import those settings. It take s a LOT of time to adapt the session to a new set-up. Think 64 tracks, custom routed kind of sessions. It's a nightmare. I thought I was just misinformed, but no, after much discussion with many different PT owners, my conclusion is the following: Bad design. Time for an update. Ciao, Fab