Installing PT10 without ASIO sound card present.

[jimexplore]

Hi folks! First post here. Be nice.

I'm new to Pro Tools. Our studio has been stuck in the past using Mackie's HDR / D8B system for way too long and we've finally bitten the bullet and bought PT10 and built a (hopefully) suitable PC.

We're going to be running 16 analog I/O using 2 MOTU 2408's for now, until we can afford the upgrade to HD Native and a Lynx Aurora or similar.

Anyway, my question:
Can you install PT without a soundcard present?
My assumption would be that you can just edit your ASIO prefs at any time so it shouldn't be a problem. However, we all know what they say about assumption.

Please expect many idiotic posts on our quest for some kind of aural utopia.

Over to you...

[Dism]

You can install it... but you won't be able to run it. Something running ASIO (whether onboard soundcard, or a peripheral) must be present to open Pro Tools.

[jimexplore]

Originally Posted by Dism

You can install it... but you won't be able to run it. Something running ASIO (whether onboard soundcard, or a peripheral) must be present to open Pro Tools.

Great, thanks for the speedy info. So I'm guessing that as soon as the MOTU PCIe-424 has been dropped into the board and installed, Pro Tools will boot?

The only reason I ask is because the PT software has arrived, but I'm still waiting on the PCIe, which will likely be a few days. Plus, I'm impatient.