One or more HD accel cards can be added to a Pro Tools|HD Native system to increase track count, add I/O capacity, and boost processing power.

One or more HD accel cards can be added to a Pro Tools|HD Native system to increase track count, add I/O capacity, and boost processing power.

• A. Not Applicable
• B. Unknown
• C. True
• D. False

Answer: (D)

HD Native systems rely on the host computer’s native processing power rather than DSP cards for plugin and mix processing. Because of that, you can’t add HD Accel DSP acceleration cards to a Pro Tools|HD Native setup to boost processing power, increase track count, or expand I/O. DSP acceleration is a feature of DSP-based Pro Tools HD systems (with Accel/HDX cards), not of the Native configuration. To expand I/O, you’d add more interfaces, and track count depends on the host CPU and software limits, not on DSP cards.

HD Native systems rely on the host computer’s native processing power rather than DSP cards for plugin and mix processing. Because of that, you can’t add HD Accel DSP acceleration cards to a Pro Tools|HD Native setup to boost processing power, increase track count, or expand I/O. DSP acceleration is a feature of DSP-based Pro Tools HD systems (with Accel/HDX cards), not of the Native configuration. To expand I/O, you’d add more interfaces, and track count depends on the host CPU and software limits, not on DSP cards.