System requirements

System Requirements

McDSP HD, Native, and LE plug-ins are compatible with Pro Tools™ HD, HD Accel TDM systems, as well as Pro Tools™ LE and Pro Tools™ M-Powered host based systems. McDSP plug-ins support Mac OS 10.4.x (Tiger), 10.5.x (Leopard), 10.6.x (Snow Leopard),Windows XP and Vista and require Pro Tools 7.x, 8.x or greater. McDSP plug-ins require an iLok USB Smart Key.

The McDSP Mac versions are compatible with both Intel and PowerPC based computers. The McDSP Windows versions require an Intel Pentium 4 or greater processor.*

Configurations

McDSP plug-ins are available in TDM, RTAS, and AudioSuite configurations. See individual products for specific available configuration sets.

Applications

Pro Tools™ 7.x, 8.x or higher is required for TDM, LE, and M-Powered systems. Additionally, a third party software application that supports the Digidesign TDM, RTAS, or AudioSuite plug-in standard may be supported. See http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=100&navid=115&itemid=4767&action=news_details for more up to date compatibility information.

McDSP plug-ins are compatible with the entire Pro Tools™ 7 and 8 product line.

Hardware

McDSP plug-ins support any Digidesign or approved third party hardware supported in Pro Tools™ 7.x and 8.x. This includes HD, HD Accel, 003, and Mbox host based systems.  See http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=122&langid=100&mkt=HD for more information on Pro Tools Plug-ins.

All McDSP HD plug-ins, except Synthesizer One, also support the Digidesign VENUE D-SHOW systems. See http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=22&mkt=VENUE&langid=100 for more specific VENUE plug-in information.

Legacy Systems

McDSP makes legacy support available to Pro Tools|24, Pro Tools|24 MIX, and MIX-Plus systems operating in either OS9 or OSX. Plug-ins for such systems are feature frozen and still require a valid iLok authorization to operate.

Legacy Plug-ins can be downloaded from the Green disk links on the Compatibility archive page.

Floppy Disk and Challenge response are no longer supported in any available McDSP plug-ins.

 

* The XP benchmark machine is chosen to follow the Digidesign recommended systems guide, which currently is the Dell Precision™ Workstation 670 with 2.79 GHz Xeon processor. All products are guaranteed to run on that system. Older Intel processors (i.e. Pentium III and predecessors) and AMD processors are not officially supported, although some users have had limited success with newer AMD processors (i.e. Dual Opteron 1.79 GHZ, Athlon 64 2.20 GHz, and Athlon 64 XP 3700). None of our XP product line will work with Pro Tools™ 5.x. Also note that our XP product line does not support MIX, although RTAS versions will work if they exist and the rest of your system (i.e. Pro Tools™ version and processor) is compatible.