I thought you were aware that DAE is a requirement for all Digidesign hardware No, they don’t say why. They only say that the old one is a requirement for selecting the interface as the output device.
I do not, have never and will never use PT. There are many reasons why and this is just one of the minor ones. I was pretty sure but not 100% certain DAE was required in a Mix system, so I asked. Let me explain my perspective.
I, as you know, use SVP. Instead of DAE, my audio engine is "Acadia". SVP uses the Steinberg ASIO driver. The ASIO driver routes all DAW-controlled, Acadia-generated audio to my interface which happens to be a Delta 1010.
I also have a separate M-Audio control app where I set the preferences and parameters of the 1010. It is there where I set nominal operating levels to match the interface to the computer.If I had Digi hardware I would send to DAE instead of Acadia and
I would expect to see a Digidesign interface control panel instead. That's why I keep asking about your DAE implementation. Is there not one of those control panels available to you where you can match the system audio level to the interface so that the system audio can run into your interface "wide open"
without overloading the interface input? That's how mine works. My sound panel boots the same way - wide open. BUT… I don't get the overload you suffer from.
My point is that "wide open" does
not mean "boosted". As with analog volume controls, it simply means
there is no attenuation. Just like any fader, the Sound Panel control doesn't turn anything
up, it can only turn things
down. Wide open is simply normal Macintosh operating level. By that logic, you should not have to turn the system audio down at boot at all - it should feed the interface without distortion and you should be able to adjust the volume in SoundJam as needed. Since this is NOT happening, I'm suspecting there is a very basic level mismatch in your setup between the Mac level and the PT level and the cure is to correct it - not to try to write some Automator routine to repeatedly compensate for what should NOT be there to begin with.
Maybe I'm totally wrong and I shouldn't expect to see that kind of basic co-operative ability from PT. (
Insert snarky Digidesign insult here)
If so, I won't be surprised…